{{Short description|Derogatory term for Moroccan Jews in Israel}} {{Italic title}} '''''Maroco sakin''''' ({{langx|he|מרוקו סכין}} ''{{Transliteration|he|Maroco sakin}}'') or '''Marokai sakin'''<ref>Example of usage can be found in Eli Amir's "Tarnegol Kaparot", pg. 56, Am Oved publications, 1992 (Hebrew)</ref> ({{langx|he|מרוקאי סכין}}) is a racist Hebrew language term used in Israel that means "Moroccan knife". The term refers to a stereotype that Moroccan Jews carried knives on their persons and were prone to violent criminality and nervousness. The stereotype of ''Maroka’i sakina’i'' (Moroccans with knives) was most commonly leveled against young working-class Jewish males who migrated to Israel from Morocco.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/102311/ramonjo_1.pdf?sequence=1_2 |title=GEOGRAPHIES OF ESCAPE: DIASPORIC DIFFERENCE AND ARAB ETHNICITY RE-EXAMINED |publisher=University of Michigan Library |accessdate=2022-06-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Personal-Notes/Real-Israel-Comedy-of-errors |title=Real Israel: Comedy of errors |date=28 May 2010 |publisher=The Jerusalem Post |accessdate=2022-06-23}}</ref> The term was most often used by Israeli Jews of European descent, particularly Ashkenazi Jews, against Moroccan Jews specifically and sometimes North African Mizrahi Jews more broadly. The term is dated, largely being used during the height of Moroccan-Jewish immigration between the 1950s and the 1970s.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bensoussan |first=Georges |author-link= |date=2019 |title=Jews in Arab Countries: The Great Uprooting |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eJmLDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Maroco+sakin%22&pg=PA444 |location=Bloomington, Indiana |publisher=Indiana University Press |page=444 |isbn=9780253038579}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Cairns |first=Lucille |author-link= |date=2021 |title=Francophone Jewish Writers: Imagining Israel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dHNvEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Maroco+sakin%22&pg=PA119 |location=Liverpool, England |publisher=Liverpool University Press |page=120 |isbn=9781781384350}}</ref>
The leftist Ashkenazi Israeli writer Gideon Levy has referred to "Moroccans with knives" as a term of dehumanization, claiming that historical prejudice against Moroccan Jews is connected to current anti-Arab racism in Israel.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2016-02-25/ty-article/.premium/israeli-racism-is-evolving-but-the-joke-is-now-being-told-about-arabs/0000017f-db78-d3ff-a7ff-fbf8bf510000 |title=Israel Racism Is Evolving, but It's Okay, Because the Joke Is Being Told About Arabs |newspaper=Haaretz |accessdate=2022-06-23}}</ref>
==See also== *Ars (slang) *Racism in Jewish communities *Racism in Israel
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Category:Anti-Arabism in Israel Category:Anti-Mizrahi sentiment in Israel Category:Anti-Moroccan sentiment Category:Class-related slurs Category:Crime in Israel Category:Ethnic and racial stereotypes Category:Hebrew slang Category:Judaism and social class Category:Mizrahi Jewish culture in Israel Category:Moroccan-Jewish culture in Israel Category:Ethnic and religious slurs Category:Racism in Israel Category:Slang terms for men Category:Stereotypes of Arab people Category:Stereotypes of Jewish people Category:Stereotypes of working-class men Category:Violent crime Category:Working class in Israel Category:Words and phrases in Modern Hebrew Category:Stereotypes of diasporas