We’re a week away now from the terrorist bombings in Sri Lanka that led to the eventual deaths of more than 300 “Easter worshippers.” And the week before was the tragic fire at Notre Dame cathedral, which as the AP pointed out in a headline, was not just a tourist mecca but “also revered as a place of worship.”
In short, news organizations found themselves having to report about Christianity, which we imagine leads to everyone in the newsroom looking around to see if they recognize anyone who’s a Christian and might know something about it.
The Washington Examiner’s Jerry Dunleavy noted this correction in The New York Times:
LOL pic.twitter.com/Z3xyBN4F35
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) April 27, 2019
“Well ackshually Jesus the Jew from Judea was a Palestinian” is among the hottest of reoccurring takes
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) April 27, 2019
NYT strikes again.
— MorrisOcean1 (@morris_ocean1) April 27, 2019
“An editing error?” Wasn’t that what the whole article was about?
— JJ (@blessinginchaos) April 27, 2019
Jesus was born in Bethlehem? Who knew?
— Rod McCulloch (@ILPollster) April 27, 2019
It turns out that wasn’t the only “Jesus was a Palestinian” take of the week. As The Jerusalem Post reported a couple of days ago, Rep. Ilhan Omar retweeted a New York Times op-ed that claimed that “Jesus, born in Bethlehem, was most likely a Palestinian man with dark skin.”
The writer was exploring why Jesus is so often illustrated as a white man with blue eyes, but [Rabbi Abraham] Cooper contends that Omar likely had another agenda in sharing the article, which she did with the following message: “Don’t they (Christians) know Jesus was a Palestinian?”
“The claim that Jesus was a Palestinian is so bizarre that the question becomes what one gains by making that allegation,” Cooper told The Jerusalem Post. “For people who have no theological or historical rooting, the idea that Jesus was a Palestinian creates a new narrative for Palestinian history, which otherwise does not date back very far. If one can say that Jesus was Palestinian 2,000 years ago, then that means the Jews are occupying Palestinian land.”
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Cooper said that if the Palestinians admit that Jesus was a Jew, then the idea that the Jews only arrived in Israel in 1948 and occupied Palestinian indigenous land becomes an absurdity.
No, @Ilhan Omar, Jesus was not a “Palestinian”, he was a Jew born in Israel under Roman occupation and your need to misrepresent history and misappropriate his background to further a political cause says more about you than it does about anything else. https://t.co/tNHoUt94Th
— Michael Dickson (@michaeldickson) April 24, 2019
Thank you!! Couldn’t have said it better myself!
— Susan Gail (@susangail1) April 25, 2019
Show us the birth certificate! #JesusBirther
— barbyonabike (@barbyonabike) April 24, 2019
And he supported free college tuition and impeachment.
— Douglas T (@Douglas_T) April 24, 2019
Not to mention that the Roman name for the country was Judea.
— Peter Easton (@peter102746) April 24, 2019
Technically, he was born in the Roman province of Judaea.
— Dana Pico (@Dana_TFSJ) April 24, 2019
And it wasn't changed to Palestinia until a hundred years after Christ was crucified, in retaliation for the Bar Kokhba revolt. It was named for the Philistines, a lost Canaanite people who were decidedly not Arabs, and lived in what's now Gaza.
— Keith Maxwell (@MaxontheCoast) April 24, 2019
Yes, Arafat's propaganda doesnt end with Jesus, Arafat's people also encouraged the myth that Philistines and Canaanites were DNA ancestors of todays Arabs who live in Gaza and the West Bank.
— Leo (@LittleOlMe97) April 24, 2019
Truth!?
— JDVFL (@JDVFL) April 24, 2019
Someone needs to ask Omar directly if she believes Ashkenazi, Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews are indigenous to Israel. If answer is no, follow-up Q is whether she believes Arab invaders who colonized Israel/Palestine around 650 AD are non-indigenous too.
— Jon Birger (@jonbirger1) April 24, 2019
Now her ignorance is really showing. After World War I, the name Palestine was applied to the territory (not a government, not a population) that was placed under British Mandate; this area included not only present-day Israel but also present-day Jordan.
— Sooo_NOTaFeminist (@OCDVirgo51) April 24, 2019
The problem we have in this country (and @Ilhan is a perfect example) is that we have so many people passionately arguing subjects which they’re completely ignorant to. #BullSchumer
— Rich Boland (@RichBoland01) April 24, 2019
How is this women in Congress? (Coming from a Brit)
— Danny Smith (@DannyBoySmith89) April 25, 2019
Some people did something.
— Gregg Powers (@Dentgregg) April 24, 2019
Americans voted for her.
— Jason (@ANZACOZ) April 25, 2019
I'm here to cover for her.
— Ilhan Omar's Hijab (@HijabIlhan) April 25, 2019
Related:
Manhole cover proves that Palestine’s sewage system is older than the ‘Zionist terrorist illegal occupation’ https://t.co/0iuuH1f5Qa
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 3, 2019
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