Anti-Israel Radicals Try Hijacking Christmas, Falsely Declare ‘Jesus Was a Palestinian’
“Overheard: Shoutout to all the Christians who’ve remained completely silent about the Palestinian genocide while they get ready to celebrate the birth of their favorite Palestinian man”
While it’s not uncommon for them to try and hijack and exploit the Christmas holiday season, wait until you get a load of what anti-Israel radicals are declaring during protests and on social media ahead of Christmas.
It’s an argument they’ve been pushing for years, that Jesus, who was Jewish, allegedly “was a Palestinian.”
Below, you’ll see several tweets as well as videos taken from recent pro-Palestinian marches where protesters are being urged to chant “Jesus was a Palestinian”:
"JESUS WAS A PALESTINIAN!" Toronto anti-Israel protesters chant as they call to cancel Christmas in Canada.
They then wish for a Palestinian new year.https://t.co/cIlPZDLUTt to sign the petition. pic.twitter.com/Cw3KtnlO57
— Efrain Flores Monsanto 🇨🇦🚛 (@realmonsanto) December 23, 2023
Christmas in Canada. pic.twitter.com/dxfVPp4o9V
— Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) December 17, 2023
Did you know the Prophet Jesus was a Palestinian? Yup, it's true!
— Robert Carter (@Bob_cart124) December 20, 2023
Overheard: Shoutout to all the Christians who've remained completely silent about the Palestinian genocide while they get ready to celebrate the birth of their favorite Palestinian man
— Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa) December 21, 2023
🇵🇸🏴HAPPENING NOW!
On the weekend of the Christmas eve, protesters are marching in Cardiff to draw attention to the lives being lost every day in Palestine, as Israel continues its military actions in Gaza.
📸 "Jesus was a Palestinian" banner from today's march pic.twitter.com/gbEcdGxKOB
— voice.wales (@voice_wales) December 23, 2023
As Christmas comes upon us, let us remember that Jesus was a Palestinian refugee and many of you Zionists who will be celebrating his birthday would be celebrating his being bombed if he were born today. Amen 🥰
— there’s some ho ho ho’s in this house (@realdocv) December 19, 2023
The "Jesus was a Palestinian" propaganda line was coined by none other than Yasir Arafat, at a 1981 news conference. pic.twitter.com/4lXZ08UmkI
— Elder of Ziyon 🇮🇱 (@elderofziyon) December 22, 2023
Not surprisingly, there has been a ton of pushback on this preposterous claim:
He himself referred to the land he lived in as 'Israel' in the Gospels. That fact alone should adjourn the court.
— Loay Alshareef لؤي الشريف (@lalshareef) December 21, 2023
Jesus was NOT A Palestinian
1. Jesus was a Jew from Judea. Born in Bethlehem a town in Judea=land of the Jews.
2. The Last Supper was the Jewish Passover
3. The word Palestine was coined years after Jesus’ death.
To this date there has never been a state called Palestine.…— Irish Jewish Voice (@Irishchutzpah) December 22, 2023
I see more and more people falsely claim that #Jesus was a Palestinian.
They appropriate Jewish history, and create a fake Palestinian history primarily because they want to erase Jewish connection to the land.
Here are the facts:
– Jesus was a Jew, and throughout his entire… https://t.co/Q6v4uba9B4
— Ron S. Friedman (@RonSFriedman) December 20, 2023
More “Pro-Palestine” protesters spouting out the false claim that Jesus ( a Jew born in Bethlehem and whose earthly body died long before the Romans made up the name “Palestina”) was Palestinian.
Can’t a kid in Canada get a picture on Santa’s knee in peace anymore? https://t.co/wZe9YCKdFE
— Drea Humphrey – Prepping and Politics (@DreaHumphrey) December 17, 2023
When you see a post saying that Jesus was a Palestinian, remind them of the Quran, which acknowledges Jesus (Isa in Arabic) as an Israelite prophet. Jesus is referred to as a prophet sent specifically to the Children of Israel in Surah Al-Imran (3:49).
— LL Blue 🇺🇸✡️💙🇮🇱🇺🇦💙 (@Dr_No_Know) December 20, 2023
I admit this is not my area of expertise. Because my dad knew his stuff on this topic, I’ve understood since I was a teenager that Jesus was Jewish, but I didn’t know much about the history of the land/region at the time.
At Honest Reporting, Jerusalem-based writer Emanuel Miller explained the complexities in-depth:
Jesus was born in Judea, a client kingdom of the Roman Empire, and identified as a Jew. Jews living there at the time would most likely have described themselves as living in the Land of Israel. Anyone referring to “Palestine” in the first century C.E. would have earned themselves strange look, especially from the indigenous Aramaic-speaking Jews. The land was subject to all the religious laws in Judaism that apply in Land of Israel.
A century later, the area was renamed. After a Jewish revolt was crushed in the 2nd Century CE, the vast majority of Jews were exiled and the Roman emperor Hadrian subsequently had the region entitled “Syria Palestina” after the Jews’ ancient enemies, the Philistines, in an antagonistic move designed to demonstrate that the Jews were no longer owners of the land.
Put simply, an Aramaic-speaking Jew living a century before this change of name would never have called himself Palestinian.
Indeed, while the New Testament mentions Israel and the Jews repeatedly, Palestine is not mentioned even once.
Jordan Cope, who is the director of policy education with the pro-Israel group “StandWithUs,” tackled the argument in an Jerusalem Post op-ed published on Christmas Eve:
In reality, Jesus was a proud, observant Jew who lived in his indigenous homeland of Judea and Galilee – from manger to grave. The myth that Jesus was Palestinian, a ploy designed to invite Christians to support Palestinian nationalism, often morphs into deliberate efforts to deny Jews their history, indigeneity, and right to sovereignty in Israel. Ironically, as Jews seek to combat rising antisemitism, now might be a good time to set the record straight on Christianity’s most important figure.
[…]
The term Palestine derives from Philistia after the land of the Philistines, a people originally from the Aegean coastline (modern-day Greece and Turkey). Goliath was defeated and the Philistines disappeared centuries before Jesus was born. After Imperial Rome defeated the third Jewish uprising, Roman forces massacred and expelled massive numbers of Jews from Judea and renamed it: Syria Palaestina. This was in 135 CE, over a century after Jesus’s death (sometime around 27-33 CE).
The new name was “to minimize Jewish identification with the land” and punish the rebellious Jews by naming the country after their biblical enemies.
As evidenced by the Romans, the erasure of Jewish memory, identity, and culture from Israel has become a mainstay tactic for antisemites over millennia.
Even the New York Times of all places had to issue a correction in 2019 to an op-ed published around Easter that falsely claimed Jesus “most likely” was Palestinian:
The op-ed, titled “As a Black Child in Los Angeles, I Couldn’t Understand Why Jesus Had Blue Eyes,” read: “Jesus, born in Bethlehem, was most likely a Palestinian man with dark skin.” The New York Times issued the correction one week after it ran the story and received a barrage of criticism.
“Because of an editing error, an article last Saturday referred incorrectly to Jesus’s background,” the Times wrote. “While he lived in an area that later came to be known as Palestine, Jesus was a Jew who was born in Bethlehem.”
It was changed to: “But Jesus, a Jew born in Bethlehem, presumably had the complexion of a Middle Eastern man.”
In short, saying “Jesus was a Palestinian” is a lot like the “from the river to the sea” chant. It’s anti-Semitic to the core, and it deserves a sound debunking every time it is uttered.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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Vile and evil Muslim supremacist, terrorists and Islamofascists aren’t content with attempting to inflict an actual genocide upon Jews — they also want to inflict an historical, cultural and theological genocide by engaging in brazenly offensive and dishonest revisionist history, erasing Jews’ millennia-old origins in the middle east; origins which pre-dated the founding of the wretched, supremacist, totalitarian, belligerent, hate-filled and pathology-laden ideology of “Submission” by thousands of years.
And, the equally vile and evil European, leftist dhimmis and American Dhimmi-crats are gleefully aiding, and, granting undue legitimacy to, this slanderous, dishonest and despicable historical revisionism.
Pales suffer from a justified inferiority complex. They are dumb, habitual liars. suffering from an incurable terminal condition.
Palestine is a concoction of muslim conquests wars
Never existed. Never will.
Modern “Palestine” was created by the KGB to destroy Israel and tie up the United States.
Though the Nazis had some input into it, too, for the last 70 years it was Soviets and Russians funding and training the terrorists groups. The whole “anti-colonialism” and “anti-imperialism” movement was created by the Russians to mask their own colonialism and imperialism.
Moslems never called it “Palestine”. “Palestine” is an invention of the Romans, resurrected by Europeans in the 19th century, and made official by the British.
The Arabs at first resisted the name change, insisting that they were Syrian Arabs. They eventually accepted the political reality and started referring to themselves as the Arabs of Palestine, but didn’t start using “Palestinian” as an ethnic identity until the 1960s. The KGB was indeed involved in that last transformation.
Yeah, it’s even more encumbered than that.
In between the Romans and WW1, “Palestine” was the name of an Ottoman administrative region, with the name borrowed from the Romans, kinda on purpose.
And “Palestine” was always way bigger than the slice from the river to the sea. Indeed, Trans-Jordan — the part off Palestine *across* the Jordan — was carved out of the mandate, as an Arab, Muslim country, with the current Hashemite dynasty installed.
If they want a two-state solution, how about the Israelis swap their claims between the river and the sea for Jordan? Since Jordan “occupied” and claimed the West bank for the longest time, that goes with it.
No, there was never an Ottoman province called “Palestine” or even “Filastin”. The Holy Land was part of the province of ashSham, which is known in English as “Greater Syria”, or “the Levant”. (That’s what the L or the final S in ISIL or ISIS was for. In Arabic it was Daesh, with the Sh standing for Sham.)
The Ummayad and Abbasids had a district within ashSham called “Jund Filastin”, but that only covers the period from the Moslem conquest until the Crusades, long before the Ottomans.
Commies, Facists and Islamofacists doing what they do best. Lie.
Something many do not know: The majority of Jews in Israel come from families driven out of Arab countries under death threats in the 1950s-1970s. The descendants of European Jews are a minority in Israel.
Yes, he wore a lovely kaffiyeh and chanted from the river to the sea.
The declarations about Jesus are Jew hatred at their core.
That was before Hamas though.
If Jesus were a Palestinian, then you have effectively done away with the Christian (and for that matter Muslim) religion. Jesus had to be a Jew. Christianity began as a movement within Judaism. Christians view the Hebrew Bible as the inspired Word of God. Further, Christianity views Jesus Christ as being the Jewish Messiah as prophesied in the Hebrew Bible.
It may be more accurate to say that Christianity began when Romans co-opted the movement and used it to repudiate the Jewish faith and reinterpret the Bible, which did not even concern them but was a threat nonetheless.
If Jesus is a Pali, so are all other Jews. End of story. From the river to the see, it’s already free especially since 1948.
Complexion of a Middle Eastern Man?
I thot they were all Asians now?
I suppose Jesus spoke Palestinian, too.
Stacey Matthews: Anti-Israel Radicals Try Hijacking Christmas, Falsely Declare ‘Jesus Was a Palestinian’
Actually, genetics supports the existence of a Palestinian ancestral heritage. Analysis of the y-chromosome shows that Palestinians have very deep roots in the area. Just as importantly, Palestinians are very closely related to Jews, who have kept their genetic identity over the two thousands years of the diaspora. See Hammer et al., Jewish and Middle Eastern non-Jewish populations share a common pool of Y-chromosome biallelic haplotypes, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2000.
In addition, Jesus had Philistine and Moabite heritage. See Matthew 1.
Richard: If Jesus were a Palestinian, then you have effectively done away with the Christian (and for that matter Muslim) religion.
Palestinian is an ethnic characteristic, not a religious one. Some Palestinians are Christian, for instance.
You are missing the point. It is irrelevant whether there were other ethnic groups living in Judea at the time that Jesus lived. The reason for calling Jesus a Palestinian is to deny the fact that he was a Jew.
The only point the troll zachfake has ever had is at the top of his pinhead.
Comparing intelligence of the two groups shows two standard deviations difference. That is staggering. If we go far enough back we are all related. Those branches in linage led to some people becoming much smarter, while others stood still, just like the branch which occurred about 1400 years ago.
Those making claims that anyone, much less Jesus was a Palestinian, are from a moronic branch.
Richard: The reason for calling Jesus a Palestinian is to deny the fact that he was a Jew.
That wasn’t the claim. Palestinians have ancient roots in the region, many of whom are descendants of Jews and Christians who adopted Arab culture during the Muslim conquests. Also, see Genesis 16.
Yes, that was indeed the claim. Not sure what you want with Genesis 16. Hagar was Egyptian.
Everyone has an ancestral heritage. Nobody arose out of nowhere. But what is that heritage?
Note “in the area”. The people now calling themselves “Palestinian” are Arabs, and their Y-chromosomes show that they come from the Middle East, as opposed to, say, Europe or China, but not specifically from the land that they only started calling “Palestine” after the British named it that. They have no historical connection to that land specifically, being mostly recent immigrants from the neighboring countries.
The only Moabite ancestry is Ruth, who forsook her people and became a Jew. And there is no mention of any Philistine heritage, which is very unlikely.
So’s Jewish. The point is that Christianity’s claims rest on the assertion that Jesus was a Jew, a descendant of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, not of Philistines or Canaanites or whoever the “Palestinians” are claiming to be this week, nor of Arabs, Edomites, Ammonites, Arameans, Egyptians, Samaritans, or any of the other surrounding nations. The people whom God brought out of Egypt, made His at Mt Sinai, and who built the Temple twice in Jerusalem. It would have suited the early Christians a lot better to have claimed Jesus was a Greek if they could have done so, but they didn’t, because it would have undermined their religion.
I don’t agree that it would do away with Islam, since Islam doesn’t rest on any such claims.
Milhouse: The people now calling themselves “Palestinian” are Arabs
Sure, but Hammer indicates that Palestinians form a distinguishable patrilineal group closely nestled within Jewish populations. Other studies indicate that Jews may also have affinity to Kurds, and that Palestinians and Bedouin are likely derived from Neolithic inhabitants of historical Palestine. See Nebel et al., The Y Chromosome Pool of Jews as Part of the Genetic Landscape of the Middle East, American Journal of Human Genetics 2001.
What is of great interest is how Jews have maintained their paternal lineage over millennia of the diaspora. The rest of their genome, however, is much more mixed depending on the history of their migation.
Milhouse: And there is no mention of any Philistine heritage, which is very unlikely.
Oops. We meant gentile, specifically Canaanite. Not sure how we mangled that. Thank you for the correction.
Milhouse: The point is that Christianity’s claims rest on the assertion that Jesus was a Jew, a descendant of Abraham . . .
Sure — on the paternal line. But he’s Canaanite through at least some of his female ancestors, which was apparently important enough for Matthew to include in his genealogy.
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Canaanite?! What are you babbling about now? The Canaanites were all wiped out long before Jesus. Nobody is descended from them today.
And where do you see a Canaanite in Matthew’s genealogy? Everyone on the list was an Israelite.
The Philistines were originally one of the Sea Peoples, a tribe the Egyptians called the Peleset. The Sea Peoples were a huge contributor to the Bronze Age Collapse, which ended civilization almost everywhere in the Middle East except a few cities, and left Egypt impoverished and weakened.
The “Palestinians” and their allies apparently want a repeat performance.
Jews were the chosen ones, Pales are ones that no one wants.
Somehow I doubt a Palestenian would honor the Sabbath and go into the jewish synagogue to read the Torah.
” And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read.” Luke 4:16 (ESV).
Actually one can argue Jesus was a Palestinian, but only so long as one recognises Herodotus’ 5th century BC definition of Palestine and the Palestinian people. Palestine basically means Israel, and the Palestinian people are Jews.
Modern Arab inhabitants of Gaza and the West Bank are not native Palestinians, but rather the descendants of Arabists, colonists, invaders, Islamists, and settlers. Yes they could have some Jewish ancestry, but that’s akin to Senator Fauxcahontas claiming to be Cherokee – one or two drops of blood in your ancestry tree doesn’t make you pure whatever.
Actually he probably didn’t identify as a Jew but as a Galilean. He was born in Judaea, but grew up in the Galilee, and in those days Judaeans (“Jews”) and Galileans didn’t get along all that well. Hence all the derogatory statements in the New Testament about “Jews”, by which the original writers meant specifically the inhabitants of Judaea, not the entire nation of Israel, which we now call Jews.
In the Bible, when he was talking with the woman at the well (John 4:9), He identifies as a Jew. He said, “Salvation is from the Jews” as He referred to Himself. And Pilate asked Him, “Are you the king of the Jews”. And the inscription written on the cross was “King of the Jews”.
As the college presidents said, it depends on the context.
Pilate was in Judaea, and dealing with Jews. The Galilee wasn’t part of his province, so it wasn’t his concern.
And to the Samaritans all Israelites were Jews; their center of worship was in Judaea (which was a key point of difference between them), and centuries earlier, when they first returned from Babylon and rebuilt the temple, they lived in Judaea and only later colonized the Galilee.
Think of how to foreigners all Americans are Yankees, while to Americans only a small percentage are Yankees. Call a Southerner a Yankee (let alone a Damyankee) and he’ll protest, but if he’s in Europe he’s a Yankee whether he likes it or not.
June 8th, Muhammad’s death date should be a holiday. Muslim’s acting up backlash.
The mental gymnastics being performed to claim Jesus was from a place that never existed is impressive.
Yes, more proof that Marxism makes you both null and void.
Now I get it. Jesus was a founding member of Hamas and the Jews crucified Jesus and that is why the Palestinians want to kill all the Jews.
Hard to believe people can grow up and be this ignorant.
I missed this one:
Only Moslems call him “the Prophet Jesus”. Nobody who is not a Moslem would ever call him that. So “Robert Carter” is exposed as a Moslem spouting the usual Moslem propaganda.
Eretz Nehederet chimes in.
(EN is an Israeli SNL-like show. The title means “A lovely country”.)