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

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.