In 1929, marauding Arabs, having whipped themselves up into a murderous fury in Hebron, the second holiest city in Judaism, turned on their Jewish neighbors and slaughtered every last Jewish man, woman, and child — 69 in all — who did not manage to escape. The attacks, which began on August 24, saw mobs armed with knives, axes, and clubs targeting Jewish homes and institutions.
Elder of Ziyon notes that the anniversary of the Hebron riots is coming up in less than two weeks. Looking forward to this ghoulish anniversary, Arabs have been publishing articles about their “great victory” at Hebron in 1929 over the Jews. More on their celebration of the Hebron massacre, and the link being made to the 2023 Al-Aqsa Intifada, can be found here: “Palestinians don’t only celebrate October 7. They also celebrate Hebron 1929.” Elder of Ziyon, August 10, 2025:
The anniversary of the deadly 1929 riots that killed over 100 Jews in Palestine is coming up.
Nesan.net has an article about 1929 painted in glowing colors and lies:
The “Buraq Revolt” was the first Palestinian uprising against the attempts to Judaize Jerusalem during the British Mandate. Large-scale clashes broke out between Arabs and Jews at the Buraq Wall (the western wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque) on August 15, 1929. The revolt culminated on August 23, 1929, with dozens killed and wounded.
The Buraq Revolt erupted when Jews organized a massive demonstration at the Buraq Wall on August 14, 1929, to mark what they called the “anniversary of the destruction of Solomon’s Temple,” claiming it was a place reserved for Jews alone.
The next day, August 15, 1929, they followed it with a massive demonstration through the streets of Jerusalem, reaching the Buraq Wall. There, they chanted, “The Wall is ours,” and sang the “Zionist national anthem,” while simultaneously insulting Muslims.
The British police had been informed of the demonstration in advance and sent large forces to escort the Jewish demonstrators.
On the third day, Friday, August 16, the anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday, Muslims rallied to defend the Buraq Wall, which the Jews intended to seize. Violent clashes erupted between the two sides, sweeping across much of Palestine.
None of this is true.
The revolt saw clashes between Palestinians on one side and Jews and Mandate forces on the other in Hebron, Safed, Jerusalem, Jaffa, and other Palestinian cities, lasting for days.
Nesan.net’s use of the word “Palestinian” is an anachronism. The word “Palestinian” in 1929 referred only to Jews. And there were no “clashes” between Arabs and Jews in Hebron — only murderous attacks by Arabs, armed with axes, knives, and scimitars, on helpless Jews.
The Palestine Bulletin at the time shows that the only violence in the first days were by the Arabs against a single Jew – a shammash, or beadle – who didn’t flee the Kotel on that Friday:
Many have previously noted the parallels between the 1929 atrocities and October 7. Women raped, their breasts cut off, children murdered, men castrated, unarmed Jews burned alive by a bloodthirsty Arab crowd in an orgy of antisemitic violence.
But it is not only Jews who draw the parallel – Arabs do as well. The Arabic Post wrote about 1929 also in glowing terms, exactly thirty days after October 7, to cement the idea that they were both glorious rebellions against the Jews.
Since October 7, the Al-Aqsa Intifada, Gaza City has been witnessing a war that has resulted in the deaths of more than 10,000 people and the injury of more than 30,000 in just one month. Some have described the war as a genocide of the city’s population by the Israeli occupation army.
However, this uprising was not the first in the history of occupied Palestine. The year 1929 witnessed the first uprising against the Jews in the city of Jerusalem, which is also called the Three Martyrs’ Uprising or the Buraq Revolution.
The Buraq Revolution was the first Palestinian uprising against the attempt to Judaize Jerusalem during the British Mandate.
The “Palestinian” Arabs make a direct connection from the murderous Arab attack on the Jews of Hebron in 1929, to the even more murderous Al-Aqsa Flood attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023. In both cases, civilians were the targets — men, women, children, babies. Torture, rapes, mutilations and murders characterized both the attacks in Hebron in 1929, and those carried out by Hamas in 2023. The Arabs depict themselves as brave warriors, fighting the perfidious Jews who had supposedly planned to attack the Arabs in Hebron. but were foiled by the Arabs who struck first. The systematic killing of every Jewish man, woman, and child who could be found in Hebron is presented as a necessary preemptive attack. In the same way, the Al-Aqsa Flood attack has been described as an act of “resistance against the occupation,” even though there had not been a single Israeli “occupier” in Gaza since 2005.
The Palestinian Arabs are proud of what Hamas on October 7, 2023, and just as proud of what other Arabs did, in similar fashion, in Hebron 96 years ago. Here’s a brief summary of that earlier attack:
The massacre began on 23 August when local Arabs began staging small-scale attacks. American Jewish immigrant Aharon Reuven Bernzweig, who was visiting Hebron with his wife at the time, later wrote to his family, “We had forebodings that something terrible was about to happen—but what, exactly, we did not know.” He added, “I was fearful and kept questioning the local people, who had lived there for generations. They assured me that in Hebron there could never be a pogrom, because as many times as there had been trouble elsewhere in Eretz Israel, Hebron had remained quiet. The local population had always lived very peacefully with the Arabs.”
By the next day, the violence had escalated, and mobs went door to door screaming, “Kill the Jews.” The angry crowd broke into Jewish houses and castrated, raped, and murdered the inhabitants. Many Jews went into hiding, and some were saved by Arab neighbors who hid Jewish friends until the violence had ended.
In his letter, Bernzweig described an Arab family who had protected him and dozens of other Jews: “Five times the Arabs stormed our house with axes, and all the while those wild murderers kept screaming at the Arabs who were standing guard to hand over the Jews. They, in turn, shouted back that they had not hidden any Jews and knew nothing.”
British High Commissioner Sir John Chancellor later wrote of the massacre: “The horror of it is beyond words. In one house I visited not less than twenty-five Jewish men and women were murdered in cold blood.”
The massacre marked the end of the Hebron Jewish community’s continuous presence in the city. While a few Jews returned to Hebron two years later, they were eventually evacuated by British authorities, who did not want to risk the outbreak of another massacre. Jews would eventually return to live in Hebron after the Six-Day War, but the dynamic coexistence that had prevailed up until 1929 would never be restored.
This is the massacre that Arabs are proudly celebrating just now, and presenting it as a harbinger of greater massacres to come, including the latest and the bloodiest, that took place on October 7, 2023.
Let Elder of Ziyon have the last mordant word:
“Let’s give them a state!”
mgoldberg says
I visited Hebron,several times about 22 yr during the intidfada cooked up by Arafat. There weren’t many visitors during that difficult time for Israel. Visiting the museum that housed that massacre I think in Kirya Arba. The story there back in the 20’s was that the Jews who lived in Hebron in the 20’s had been there for some 200 yrs. They refused to be armed telling those who begged for them to arm themselves, that they’d been living peaeably with their arab neighbors and would not change their ways. The horrific massacres that occured were indeed horrific the way all muslim massacres are when they foam to the top of manufactured muslims rage. And the slaughter and raping, and mutilation back then only resulted in the brits restricting Jewish settlement in Israel. And of course, the arabs today would celebrate such an evil event as reality gets turned on its head.
gravenimage says
+1
Billy says
Muslims construct all their history to fit their standard Islamic Narrative, propagandist lies.ISLAM IS FALSE, AHISTORICAL, AND DECEITFUL(Quran 3:54; 7:99; 8:30, etc.). There is NO MECCA, NO MUHAMMAD, and NO QURAN in the 7th century AD in Saudi Arabia despite the Muslim Standard Islamic Narrative(SIN) claims. Thus, Islam is a fallacious, factitious ideology imaginatively fabricated over time into the 21sth century, and there is NO PEACE with Islam and its Muslims. Allah’s cursed Islam, a CRIMINAL-TERRORIST ENTERPRISE and a MURDEROUS-DEMONIC CULT OF BELIEVERS, Muslim Soldiers for Allah, continually fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, mass murder, intimidation, supremacy, segregation, hatred, incitement to violence, criminality, genocide, victimhood, censorship, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law, Sharia, and in Islam’s Quran(Quran 5:14,35; 8:60; 9:41, 88, etc.).
Allah’s specious ideology in Qur’an 8:39 commands Muslims to fight Non-Muslims until they surrender to Muslim rule when it says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” Hence, Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Westerners via Tax Exempt Organizations, the Media and Hollywood, Foreign Funding, etc. because Islam violates and is incompatible with Western Laws(Quran 8:60; 9:5,29, 111; 47:4; 49:15; 60:4 etc.).
Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam and its Muslims function as a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) fighting against Non-Muslims to make Islam supreme and NOT A PEACEFUL religion under Western Law because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes Terrorist Criminal Organizations with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah(Quran 2:191; 4:89, 91; 9:5,29, 111; 49:15, etc.).
Allah’s Islam, a supremacist Antichrist Ideology, is using Western Freedoms and Laws against Non-Muslims to conquer Non-Muslims under Islamic Rule. Non-Muslims should legally designate Islam as a Muslim Terrorist Organization(MTO) where Mosques, Muslim Schools, Islamic Centers, Sharia Courts, and Muslim Organizations are banned because of their incitement of segregation and discrimination to fight back against ISLAMIZATION, Muslim subjugation, and tyrannical violence(Quran 4:65; 9:5,29,111; 60:4; 98:6-7, etc.).
Allah’s Muslims desire to make Islam supreme. Sahih Bukhari 3126 says, “… the Prophet said, He who fights so that Allah’s Word(ie. Islam) should be superior, fights for Allah’s Cause.” Allah, the Supreme Destroyer, in Quran 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah[ie. Allah’s Cause), so they kill and are killed…”. Allah teaches that Death By Jihad leads to Muslim Paradise. Allah in Qur’an 3:169 says, “And do not consider those who were killed for the sake of Allah as dead. Yet they are alive with their lord, receiving their provision.”
Under Islam and Islamic Law, Muslims have the Legal Right and the Quranic Duty to terrorize Non-Muslims because neglecting this QURANIC DUTY is a CRIME of Blasphemy, Unbelief, and Infidelity against tyrannical Allah. Jihad means warfare against Non-Muslims to ESTABLISH ISLAM’S RELIGION AS SUPREME(Quran 3:115, 151; 9:5, 29, 111; Muslim Law Manual: “Reliance of the Traveller”, o9.0, etc.).
More specifically, Islam, a terroristic-totalitarian way of life, is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of: incitement, intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, segregation, slavery, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, sedition, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:191, 208,216; 4:65, 89,91, 95, 115; 5:14,64; 8:12,39,60, 74; 9:5,21,29,36, 41,49, 73,88, 111,123; 21:92; 47:4; 49:15; 60:4; 61:9-11; 62:6; 89:14; etc.).
Mike says
As I once wrote elsewhere, the only things Palestinians are any good at are propaganda and murder – and they had to be taught the art of propaganda by communists. They accomplished exactly nothing under Turkish rule or British rule, and haven’t changed one bit to this very day. They are a curse on the Earth and a liability to humanity.
Siddi Nasrani says
Agreed, they are the Spawn of Satan.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
They weren’t even in Palestine: they lived around in areas that are today in the Sinai and Jordan. They only moved in once Jews started moving in, hoping to share in the newfound prosperity. Normally, that could have been a win-win situation w/ any other group, except that this one was mohammedan
ploome says
Their propaganda falls on very willing ears. Look at the hatred directed towards Israel and Jews.
Obscene
all the work is concerned with, is the genocide and starvation of the arabs in Gaza.
The only concern for the hostages is from Israel and Trump. (and his people…..Huckabee is a warrior, he is fantastic.)
gravenimage says
Spot on, Mike.
Andrew Blackadder says
Ive always noticed that its always five muslim men attacking one non muslim guy and its an Army of muslims attacking an unarmed people in their homes or at a Music Festival.
So apart from calling these men as cowards they are also savages.
islamism is the new nazism.
OLD GUY says
With Islam its violent history keeps repeating it self, the Jewish and Christians and other non-islamic followers don’t seem to get the message. Islam will never recognize another religion or form of government. You will only live in peace with Islam until Islam decides to Beat, Rape and murder your family and population. Islam has proved this over and over.
There is NO multiculturalism or diversity with Islam.
gravenimage says
Hebron, 1929, and the Al-Aqsa Flood, 2023
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Muslims’ murderous hatred of Jews never ends. And why would it? This is what Islam teaches.
Tunde says
I love your articles, Mr. Fitzgerald. Some of the best I’ve read and some of the most quality pieces online today. Never change.
Tunde says
I love your articles, Mr. Fitzgerald. Some of the best I’ve read and some of the most quality pieces online today. Never change.