“Palestine is ours… The tree will tell you: ‘There is a Jew behind me, kill him’” Palestinian in Lebanon

Palestinian refugee Maryam Saad Al-Din: “I wish for my grandchild that he will not forget Palestine... The second generation is aware that Palestine is ours... In the hereafter, the tree will tell you: “There is a Jew behind me, kill him.” Truly, in the hereafter, Allah willing, “there is a Jew behind me, kill him.”

[Official PA TV, From Beirut, May 13, 2022]

The story of a stone or tree beckoning a Muslim to kill a Jew appears in numerous Islamic texts. One example is the following Hadith from the Sahih Muslim book of Hadith: “Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (Peace be upon Him) as saying: ‘The last hour will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them until the Jews hide behind a stone or a tree, and the stone or a tree will say: “Muslim, or servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him”; but the Gharqad tree will not say [this], for it is the tree of the Jews.’”