Fatah denies Jewish history at the Western Wall, claims Jews have no connection to it
Fatah-run Awdah TV narrator: “The Al-Buraq Wall (i.e., the Western Wall of the Temple Mount) is the southern part of the western wall of the Jerusalem Noble Sanctuary (i.e., the Temple Mount), whose length is approximately 47 meters and whose height is approximately 17 meters. The Jews never used it as a place of worship, except after the Balfour Promise(i.e., Declaration) was issued in 1917.”
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page, Aug. 15, 2023]
Posted text on Facebook page: “Watch: The anniversary of the 1929 Al-Buraq Rebellion (i.e., 1929 Arab Riots)”
It is not correct that Jews have “never used the Western Wall as a place of worship before the Balfour Declaration was issued in 1917.” Jews have been praying at the Western Wall at least since they were given permission to do so in 1546 by the Ottoman ruler Sultan Suleiman I.
The Al-Buraq Wall - Islam's Prophet Muhammad is said to have ridden during his Night Journey from Mecca to "al aqsa mosque", i.e., "the farthest mosque" (Quran, Sura 17), and there tied his miraculous flying steed named Al-Buraq to a "stone" or a "rock." (Jami` at-Tirmidhi, Book 47, Hadith 3424). In the 1920's, Arab Mufti Haj Amin Al-Husseini decided to identify the Western Wall of the Temple in Jerusalem as that "rock" or "stone," and since then Muslims refer to the Western Wall as the "Al-Buraq Wall."
The Balfour Declaration of Nov. 2, 1917 was a letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Baron Rothschild stating that "His Majesty's government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." In 1922, the League of Nations adopted this and made the British Mandate "responsible for putting into effect the declaration," which led to the UN vote in favor of partitioning Mandatory Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state in 1947. In response, Britain ended its mandate on May 15, 1948, and the Palestinian Jews, who accepted the Partition Plan, declared the independent State of Israel. The Palestinian Arabs rejected the plan and together with 7 Arab states attacked Israel, in what is now known as Israel's War of Independence.
Muhammad Jamjoum, Fuad Hijazi, and Ataa Al-Zir “committed particularly brutal murders [of Jews] at Safed and Hebron,” according to the report by British Government to the League of Nations. They were convicted of attacking British soldiers and murdering Jews in the 1929 Hebron Massacre, in which 65 Jews were murdered. They were executed by the British in 1930.