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Murderers of Jews in 1929 riots are “noble heroes” in song glorified in PA TV quiz

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Official PA TV narrator: “Because songs are a basic part of our culture and ‎they express our national identity… and because these songs are present in ‎our consciousness and still fascinate us with values and meanings… It’s ‎here: ‘The Tune of the Homeland.’‎

Lyrics:‎
"From Acre Prison went forth the funeral of Muhammad Jamjoum and Fuad ‎Hijazi.‎
Take revenge for them, my people
Official PA TV narrator: This is the chorus of the pain and suffering from the ‎torture of prison… which expresses the pride of the young ones who ‎presented the most wondrous things in the pages of the [history of the] ‎struggle against the invading occupiers. They are the noble heroes of ‎Palestine – Martyrs Muhammad Jamjoum, Ataa Al-Zir, and Fuad Hijazi (i.e., ‎murderers from the 1929 Arab Riots)... Our poet was witness to the three ‎becoming Martyrs, and his talent provided the poem “The Ground Shook ‎Under the Invaders’ Feet”:‎
They were three heroes
Who competed with each other who would die first
Their feet rose above the hangman’s neck
They became an example, O my friend
Throughout the length and width of the land
And from Acre Prison went forth the funeral.‎"

[Official PA TV, The Tune of the Homeland, Jan. 15 (twice), 16 (three times), and 17 (twice), 18 (twice), 2021]

Muhammad Jamjoum, Fuad Hijazi, and Ataa Al-Zir

Wanting to concretize their “Martyrdom,” the PA repeatedly uses a photo of ‎three Syrian independence leaders being hung by Turkish Ottoman forces in ‎‎1916, and falsely presents it as the three “martyred” murderers being hanged ‎by the British in 1930. ‎

 


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