Left-wing personalities spread unfounded claim that Israel staged Moroccan migration surge

During a livestream, Hasan Piker claimed that Israel, with U.S. backing, induced the Moroccan government to send roughly 40,000 people into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. He offered no explanation and dismissed responsibility. Kenneth Roth, former head of Human Rights Watch, suggested Jerusalem might want Morocco to manage Ceuta to limit Israeli access to the Atlantic, likening the scenario to Iran’s Strait of Hormuz blockade.

The piece points out that Britain, not Spain, controls Gibraltar and that Spain would not jeopardize international waterways over Gaza. Additional left-wing voices, such as Young Turks host Ana Kasparian and actor Javier Bardem, repeated the conspiracy. The article characterizes the narrative as an unfounded antisemitic trope that has recently linked Israel to unrelated events worldwide.