PA official twists his own recorded history for political gain

Official PA TV program Topic of the Day

Follow-up Commission for Prisoners’ Affairs Director Amin Shuman: “On this day, Red Tuesday- which is the name that the supreme emergency committee in the prisons gave it, because this day matches the date of the execution of three heroes of Palestine during the Al-Buraq Rebellion (i.e., the 1929 Arab Riots) at the time of the British Mandate of Palestine, when the Mandate authorities and the British occupation of Palestine executed three heroes Muhammad Jamjoum, Ataa Al-Zir, and Fuad [Hijazi] (i.e., terrorist murderers).”

Official PA TV host: “The three red ones. But the date is not identical.”

Amin Shuman: “Right, the date is not identical, but it is called Red Tuesday because the Mandate authorities executed these three. Now, after less than 100 years, Israel is now attempting to legislate the execution law against the Palestinian prisoners (refers to Israeli bill to implement the death penalty for terrorists -Ed.).”

[Official PA TV, Topic of the Day, March 14, 2023]

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.