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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

Explanation accepted, but I'll note that the joke is factually wronger than most. IIRC Wallace is yelling "Freedom!" at the English troops of Edward I (Longshanks). Longshanks had previously issued a royal order expelling all Jews from England in 1290,* meaning that the population of Englishmen at whom Gibson was yelling in that movie was the least Jewish it had ever been and probably ever will be.

*Longshanks did this so he could seize the loans that England's Jewry had lawfully issued under England's usury laws, and taking possession of them from the departing Jews could be the most cynical circumvention of the usury laws (which would have forbidden Edward to issue interest-bearing loans in the first place) ever, and is evidence that the Crown really was a prick, but I don't recall the part where Wallace rallied the Scots by pointing out the enemy had been a real dick to his own countrymen, the Jews.