The latest iterations of the farcical claim that “Jesus was a Palestinian” can be found here: “Media Falsely Help Turn Ancient Jewish Jesus Into a Modern-Day Palestinian,” by Chaim Lax, Algemeiner, December 27, 2023:
If mainstream media organizations are willing to serve as platforms for the re-invention of Jesus, it is no surprise that anti-Israel news organizations also did so.
In a report on the muted Christmas festivities in the Holy Land this year, Al Jazeera referred to Jesus as being born in Palestine with no mention of his Jewish ancestry.
Why would Al Jazeera want its audience to learn that “Jesus was a Jew born in Roman-occupied Judea”?
For its part, Iran-sponsored Press TV did reference Jesus’ Jewish background, even calling him a “Jewish rabbi,” but then dove headfirst into a discussion of whether, as a Palestinian, present-day Jesus would only be a member of Hamas’ civil administration or whether he would have joined the military [i.e. terrorist] wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
At least Iran’s Press TV, unlike Al Jazeera, did admit that Jesus was a Jew, but having fleetingly made that admission, quickly turned to what Jesus would be were he among us today, and concluded that he would be a “Palestinian.” The only question for the Iranian agency was which wing – political or military — of Hamas or of Palestinian Islamic Jihad he would have been a member of.
On social media, the “Jesus was Palestinian” narrative also spread like wildfire, with many being much more blatant in their erasure of Jesus’ Jewish identity.
On Instagram, US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) posted a story which claimed that Jesus “was born in modern-day Palestine”; compared Israel to the Romans; and absurdly asserted that “this high Christian holiday is about honoring the precious sanctity of a family that, if the story were to unfold today, would be Jewish Palestinians.”
No, Jesus was not born in “modern-day Palestine.” He was born in Judea, which the Romans conquered in 63 B.C., and in 135 A.D. renamed, to efface the Jewish connection to the land, as “Syria Palaestina” or “Syrian Palestine,” which was then shortened to “Palestine.” Contrary to Ocasio-Cortez’ claim, the modern Israelis were not like the ancient Romans. The Romans came as conquerors to Judea; the Jews of modern Israel came not as conquerors of another’s land, but as the descendants of the original inhabitants of what had been called Judea, and the rightful inheritors of that land, as the League of Nations recognized when it created the Mandate for Palestine, intending it to become the Jewish state “from the river to the sea.”
And once again it must be emphasized: the modern Israelis live in the same area that Jews have been living in since at least 2500 B.C.; they are the descendants of its indigenous inhabitants, not foreign conquerors such as the Romans and so many others, including Muslim Turks and Arabs.
There are currently more than seven million Jewish Israelis, but not a single “Jewish Palestinian” either in Gaza or in Judea and Samaria (a/k/a the West Bank).
On X (formerly Twitter), independent journalist Richard Medhurst posted a rant with the headline “Remember this Christmas that Jesus is Palestinian,” while UN-accredited activist Mohamad Safa tweeted that Christmas is the celebration of “the birthday of a Palestinian man.”
Keep repeating it, all you haters of Israel: “Jesus was a Palestinian.” Go ahead and invite ridicule. You’ve earned it.
Former Dutch parliamentarian Arnoud van Doorn even went to the extreme of posting an antisemitic illustration of Jesus on the cross, wrapped in Palestinian symbols and surrounded by soldiers, with the caption “They killed him again. Merry Christmas.”…
The antisemitic trope of Jews as Christ-killers is now presented unembarrassedly by a former Dutch parliamentarian who — himself a bizarre convert to Islam — thought publishing this antisemitic squib would be the most appropriate way to celebrate this Christmas season.
No matter how many times the army of Israel-haters deny it, or fail to mention it, Jesus was born, lived, and died a Jew. He was not a “Palestinian” but a Judean; the toponym “Palestine” was deliberately created by the Romans in 135 AD to efface the place name “Judea.” And were Jesus among us today, he would no doubt be in Gaza, joining fellow Jews in fighting for the survival of the Jewish state, serving in the Golani Brigade, or Sayeret Matkal.
Tony Rice says
The Palestinian assertion re Jesus is not worth commenting upon except to show their desperation.
mea says
Jesus was born at least 70 years before the Romans stared referring to Israel as Palestine – there never was, and there is not now, a country of palestine,,, stop using the term and if you must, refer to is as the ‘p’laistine Hoax [use small case ‘p’ – big hoax small ‘p’.
But then, you already know this and refuse to address the issue.
If you were serious about addressing the mohammada palistine hoax,
So, in every article with the ‘Klap trap about Jesus being a palastinian and Israel being palistine yo should immediately say : see pure self-serving mohammadan terrorist lies, just like the rest of mohammad’s plagiarized blaspheming Hersey of Animism, Judaism, Christianity, Code of Hammurabi wrapped in a tribal feudal politi”Kal order,
again, you all know this and refuse to visit the truth on the mohammadan fakers… so, that obviously leaves you being extorted, blackmailed and/or closet mohammadadised into sucking up to the mohammadan shills.and their faux religion.
Westpacwill says
The land God gave to His Chosen People extended from the “River of Egypt” (a wadi in Sinai, not the Nile) all the way up to the Euphrates River. Even after Rome in 70 AD destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple and scattered Hebrews / Jews to their worldwide diaspora, thousands remained in the Holy Lands, and for centuries any traveler who spoke of Palestinians meant those Jews who remained. Not until 1963 did Islam misappropriate the title of “Palestinians” to identify the Egyptians, Jordanians, Syrians, and other Muslims who also lived there, creating the Great Lie of the Islamic “Palestinian people.” The only intruders / occupiers / colonizers in the Holy Lands, the Jewish homeland, are Islamic. When the Final Day comes, Israel will again occupy all the territory God has ordained, and Islamic countries will have to absorb their Islamic cousins who God will exile from His Holy Land forevermore.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
If al Jazeera is talking about the islamic version of Jesus – Isa, then he wasn’t a Jew. But I’m not sure even the quran/sunnah have him down as “Palestinian”: for the Arabs, the entire region west of the Euphrates and east of the Suez (canal, which didn’t exist then) was ‘ash Sham’, which would loosely translate into either the Levant, or Syria. Maybe Syria, given that the capital was Damascus
Statler says
@Mr. Fitzgerald:
You write: ‘(…) the Jews of modern Israel came not as conquerors of another’s land, but as the descendants of the original inhabitants of what had been called Judea, and the rightful inheritors of that land, as the League of Nations recognized when it created the Mandate for Palestine, intending it to become the Jewish state “from the river to the sea.”
I feel inspired by those words to launch a new slogan:
‘From the river to the sea, Israel will be free!’
No tongue in cheek, and no genocide intended either.
Happy new year, best wishes!
loek de vette says
@ mr Fitzgerald,
My apologies but 2500 BC can’t be correct nor can the last few sentences be correct when you write about what Jesus would do at His return.(or what He would do if He were to be here today)
The Istanbulian says
Definitely a white guy in Islamic art
Ha ha ha
Watch out blm, you may be next in line to get in line
Blougeoisie says
The same is done for st Nick by claiming he was born in Turkey. Because Nicholas is such a Turkic name
Jeremy says
Can somebody explain to me what ethnicity Jesus was? To say that he was a Jew tells me the religion he follows does it not? But what of his nationality or ethnicity? Apart from the fact the Palestine came some years after him, wouldn’t the people of Palestine at that time be of the same ethnicity as Jesus then? So in a way Jesus was a Palestinian in the modern sense of ethnic classification. Please prove me wrong.
Lisa T. says
There.are two genealogies of Jesus in the Bible. The one in Matthew traces Jesus ancestry from Abraham to Jesus. The other genealogy in Luke works backwards from Jesus to Adam.
Since Jews by definition are the descendants of Abraham, Jesus was definitely Jewish, both by ethnicity and religion. As Whoopi Goldberg found out from the backlash when she tried to deny that Jews are not a “race,” assuming most are White, obviously forgetting that there are also Black Jews in Ethiopia, etc.
There are also converts to Judaism, who may not be descendants of Abraham, but the Jews qualify as a race because they are a homogeneous group of peoples with a common set of customs, beliefs, (although many Jews today are non-religious, so how can we say that it is just a religion?) and common ancestry, who have suffered persecution throughout history. They prefer to stay apart from the world, practicing their customs, often avoiding marriage outside their faith or ethnicity. They are a unique group of peoples and certainly deserve their own designation.
If I recall correctly Jesus was a Gallilean, born in Nazareth of Gallilee. If his ethnicity had to be defined that is how I would describe him apart from his Jewishness.
It is ridiculous to describe him by the modern boundaries we use today.