PA TV historical drama shows Arabs celebrating killing of British policeman during the Mandate

Official PA TV broadcast the historical drama Um Al-Yasmin during Ramadan 2023. This episode shows a crowd celebrating the killing of a British policeman during the Mandate.

Young person: “O people of the neighborhood, O people of the neighborhood. Someone shot at the British patrol and killed one.”

Crowd: “Allahu Akbar (“Allah is greatest” -Ed.), Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar!”

Neighborhood dignitary: “These British are playing with guns, and they need to know that any blow to lofty Jerusalem or the Al-Buraq Wall (i.e., The Western Wall) – this will be the response.”

Crowd: “Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar!”

Man: “O honored public, candies will be distributed in honor of Ta’rifa and the killing of the British person at Abu Adham’s [candy store].”

[Official PA TV, Um Al-Yasmin, March 24, 2023]

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."