Misrepresenting Jesus’ true origins isn’t just historical revisionism; it’s part of a broader campaign of disinformation that distorts facts, fuels conflict, and reshapes perceptions of reality.
What stands out about the “Jesus was Palestinian” claim is that profound factual inversion has become not a liability but a functional asset of Palestinian activism.
Most political movements incur reputational cost from sustained falsification. Here, the opposite happens. Inversion produces moral advantage. These are not isolated incidents, they are characteristic, revealing a cause that does not merely tolerate inversion but thrives on it. Accuracy becomes dispensable because affective alignment replaces truth as the organising principle.
After the Al-Ahli hospital explosion, blame was assigned to the IDF with absolute certainty and when it was disproved this seemed to make no difference at all. The narrative congealed into fact long before and after uncertainty or correction could register. Likewise, a front-page image of an emaciated Gazan child circulated as proof of starvation was later clarified to involve a severe pre-existing medical condition, yet the correction also did not seem to matter. A newly elected Oxford student union president’s claim to Palestinian identity, despite neither she nor her parents being born there, was similarly treated as moral testimony rather than misstatement.
The pattern is consistent: the further a claim drifts from verifiable reality, the more effectively it functions within Pro-Palestine activism.
That is why calling Jesus “Palestinian” fits so perfectly. It has the coherence of calling him Californian: a modern political identity projected backwards to manufacture moral continuity where none exists. History is inverted because the Palestinian activism requires it to be so, and because inversion carries no cost.
When factual distortion strengthens rather than weakens a movement, it points to something deeper than misinformation. It reveals a moral structure already inverted, in which truth is subordinate to narrative utility and reality itself becomes an obstacle to be overcome.
I would like to propose that the man himself is unlikely to have claimed this …. Paul’s letters and the subsequent gospels ( written after Paul’s letters) did this .
As a Lutheran Christian, I truly appreciate your regard and respect for my faith. I only wish the man who launched Lutheran theology held the same regard for your faith, but here we are, 500 years on. At least my church body has refuted those writings.
That Jesus was anything but Jewish is a flat-out evil lie. Since the fall, lies have been spread about Jesus the Son of God, who came to save us from sin, the father of lies & his evil. In Islam, you are allowed to lie if it furthers the aims of Islam. Islam is diametrically opposed to the truth of Jesus and His Jewishness.
Palestinianism is an entire project and it has been embraced by the EU, the UK, the London, NY<Hollwyood/Cannes axis of Wokeness/antisemitism. It's obnoxious. This is its most fanciful ahistoric reimagining. the German Reich decided Yeshu'a was an Aryan. How could the Son of G d be a subhuman. Same with Palestinianism. I used to"love" when I'd hear a voice over of a visit to a small Syrian village. they're (in reverent voice) "speaking the language of Jesus," To distance Yeshu'a from his Jewishness. No he was much like a Syrian "Arab" speaking Aramaic. WEll no. Galilean Jewish Aramaic is a dead language. And this extends to things like food....where hummus and felafel are uniquely "Palestinian." And even the "Israeli salad" is inauthentic. So every single thing about Jewish civilization has to be denied and labeled "myth" and replaced with these fabricated and lunatic "truths." So they plopped a pal table cloth on Anne Frank too....her martyrdom is only essential in that it is appropriated by some Arabic speaking tribes of the southern Levant who while not being Jewish couldn't assume the mantle of Jewishness so they invented something new. And now there are a dozen cookbooks for the coffee table on "Palestinain cuisine" much like that of France, Italy and China. And if one looks one can find the "Palestinian Wars" by Abu al Josephus about the great war that the ancient Palestinians waged against the Zionists. I'm sure Ocasio Cortez refers to it daily for accuracy.
In addition, there was the satirical Jesus in the manger sketch by some UC Berkeley 3 wise persons called "The Gospel According to Berkeley" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcLCe5iBvVc). Many of the false claims discussed above are incorporated. What was amusing 2 years ago has turned into malevolent misinformation today.
I, too, felt the same seeing in Neon lights that Jesus was a Palestinian. Is it really surprising, Joshua, when most of their so called "religion" had been plagiarized because the illiterate Mohammed had no original thoughts of his own, and had his people write down whatever he thought sounded worthwhile. (Much of it from the Torah) Trouble was he couldn't remember most of what was said. Not much has changed. They're still trying to steal and rewrite their history. What bothers me the most is the influence of Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrating with trillions of dollars into every facet of the US, Europe, and elsewhere. Their propaganda has spread and the millions of young minions believe it. They have spread a dark cloud over these countries, and until it gets worse before it gets better, we will continue to see this rubbish on social media and wherever they see an opening for it.
And yet, the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Orthodox Christian leaders have made no public rejoinder to the “Jesus is a Palestinian” canard.
Then again, they fall silent before the Arab claim that there was never a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem - in direct contradiction of the Gospels.
Certainly they don’t agree with any of this anti-Jewish and anti-Christian polemic, yet they are too cowardly to speak the Truth. Are they afraid of being called out as “Zionists” or “Islamophobes”? Whatever the justification for this abject silence, it won’t protect them or their flocks from a triumphant Islam on the march.
The failure of the Pope and Christian leaders who fail to correct this makes them complicit in what they know is a major lie. Hardly a claim to moral leadership.
Appeasement is a thing. It never works, but the leaders you cite keep trying. Meanwhile, as Bat Ye'or once described, the Christian populations of Muslim-contolled countries/cities drastically decline.
Leadership is terrified of having their buildings bombed and worshippers slaughtered ….. getting the big Christian leaders to call out this garbage is a tough ask. .., the world in general if afraid of upsetting extremist Muslims. A very sad state of affairs
Denying Jesus was Jewish is part of a long campaign which by far predates the Israel-Palestinian conflict. The fact is that for three hundred years after Christ’s life, the early Christians were Jews.
Yet Jews who find Yeshua as Messiah are not Christians, can't be and never will they be Christian because Jews will always keep their Jewish identity. Even I know that fact.
Old paradox then: Was Jewish Jesus the first Christian? Yes. He is therefore in fact both. So you can be both if Christ was both. Simple deductive logic.
Except that during his lifetime, Jesus identified as a Jew and followed Jewish laws and practice. And so did all the disciples. The concept of being a Christian evolved afterwards. Logic needs to be tethered to fact.
Show me where Jesus describes himself as a “Christian”. I’m unaware of his ever saying such a thing. In fact, the first few generations of followers saw themselves as Jewish, nothing else.
Only after the sect separated itself from Judaism did anyone look at Jesus as the “first” Christian but that’s a different discussion.
They were and remain followers of Christ. Therefore whatever they called themselves they were both Jewish and followers of Christ. What they called themselves is semantics. Jesus was both Jewish and Christ.
According to them, Adam, Abraham, Jacob, Isaac, Moses all were Palestinians. I’m just waiting for them to say Socrates, Buddha and Confucius were Palestinians.
We HAVE to fight back. I’m sure the Mossad has the capability of hijacking every media source, every computer and every television, for 5 minutes at a time. Force the world to watch brief reels of the truth, perhaps narrated by someone in a Guy Fawkes mask. Start with “there is NO ‘palestine’…this was a creation of the old KGB.” Next, Jesus was a Jew who lived in ancient Judea. Then: the ‘palestinians” don’t want peace, they want the Jews dead. And so on. And it wouldn’t hurt if, in the meantime, the Qatari oil fields suddenly all exploded simultaneously.
WE HAVE TO ACT! We cannot continue to let Jew-haters control the narrative.
Actually, from my readings, the Quran holds essentially that Abraham was Muslim as well as Moses, the Hebrew prophets, and Jesus. Accordingly, their Prophet Muhammed was essentially sent as the final prophet, the messenger of Allah, to let the Jews and Christians know that they had perverted their religions and must RETURN or REVERT to Islam.
Darn it, Joshua, you’ve harshed my joke! When I first heard the Lutheran pastor from Bethlehem say “Jesus was Palestinian” in an interview I thought it was so ludicrous I could only laugh and yell at the radio, “If Jesus was Palestinian then I AM Palestinian!” But now you’ve shown us how this idiocy has infiltrated public discourse around the world and it’s no joke. SMH.
One of your best pieces ever. But lightly glossed over is the lie that Christmas was canceled in Bethlehem by Israel. Bethlehem is misruled by the PLO. The other lies are well described. Rather than worry about hasbara that is doomed to fail in the face of this onslaught, Israel should find a way, whatever it looks like, to stop its enemies from disseminating these lies online. In its own way it is as dangerous as Iran's nuclear program. It has to be stopped.
Christmas in Betlehem was not canceled by Israel. The IDF was called in by the priests looking after the Church of the Nativity to evict the Arab Muslims who had desecrated every inch of it, including smashing and urinating on the altars. and spreading feces on paintings and efigies of Christ, the Virgin and Saints.
What these people have written is blasphemy but little do these Palestinian followers realise, is that Messiah has seen them and if they think they're going to get away with it, then they are very much mistaken. Scripture clearly teaches that there is coming a day when all will have to make an account of themselves before God, which includes themselves too.
What stands out about the “Jesus was Palestinian” claim is that profound factual inversion has become not a liability but a functional asset of Palestinian activism.
Most political movements incur reputational cost from sustained falsification. Here, the opposite happens. Inversion produces moral advantage. These are not isolated incidents, they are characteristic, revealing a cause that does not merely tolerate inversion but thrives on it. Accuracy becomes dispensable because affective alignment replaces truth as the organising principle.
After the Al-Ahli hospital explosion, blame was assigned to the IDF with absolute certainty and when it was disproved this seemed to make no difference at all. The narrative congealed into fact long before and after uncertainty or correction could register. Likewise, a front-page image of an emaciated Gazan child circulated as proof of starvation was later clarified to involve a severe pre-existing medical condition, yet the correction also did not seem to matter. A newly elected Oxford student union president’s claim to Palestinian identity, despite neither she nor her parents being born there, was similarly treated as moral testimony rather than misstatement.
The pattern is consistent: the further a claim drifts from verifiable reality, the more effectively it functions within Pro-Palestine activism.
That is why calling Jesus “Palestinian” fits so perfectly. It has the coherence of calling him Californian: a modern political identity projected backwards to manufacture moral continuity where none exists. History is inverted because the Palestinian activism requires it to be so, and because inversion carries no cost.
When factual distortion strengthens rather than weakens a movement, it points to something deeper than misinformation. It reveals a moral structure already inverted, in which truth is subordinate to narrative utility and reality itself becomes an obstacle to be overcome.
Factual inversion is all the Fakestinians have. Oh, and moral inversion, too. Nearly forgot that one.
This description of Jesus is nothing short of blasphemy. Any Christians knows that Jesus was a Jew and a good Jew.
More than a good Jew, He was perfect and without sin/any wrong doing.
Until he falsely claimed messiah status
I would like to propose that the man himself is unlikely to have claimed this …. Paul’s letters and the subsequent gospels ( written after Paul’s letters) did this .
Fair
As a Lutheran Christian, I truly appreciate your regard and respect for my faith. I only wish the man who launched Lutheran theology held the same regard for your faith, but here we are, 500 years on. At least my church body has refuted those writings.
Thank you for this.
That Jesus was anything but Jewish is a flat-out evil lie. Since the fall, lies have been spread about Jesus the Son of God, who came to save us from sin, the father of lies & his evil. In Islam, you are allowed to lie if it furthers the aims of Islam. Islam is diametrically opposed to the truth of Jesus and His Jewishness.
I didnt know the Lutheran Church had refuted Luther's antisemitism but Im glad to hear it has.
I can’t speak for all Lutheran bodies but the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church published such a statement in 1983.
Palestinianism is an entire project and it has been embraced by the EU, the UK, the London, NY<Hollwyood/Cannes axis of Wokeness/antisemitism. It's obnoxious. This is its most fanciful ahistoric reimagining. the German Reich decided Yeshu'a was an Aryan. How could the Son of G d be a subhuman. Same with Palestinianism. I used to"love" when I'd hear a voice over of a visit to a small Syrian village. they're (in reverent voice) "speaking the language of Jesus," To distance Yeshu'a from his Jewishness. No he was much like a Syrian "Arab" speaking Aramaic. WEll no. Galilean Jewish Aramaic is a dead language. And this extends to things like food....where hummus and felafel are uniquely "Palestinian." And even the "Israeli salad" is inauthentic. So every single thing about Jewish civilization has to be denied and labeled "myth" and replaced with these fabricated and lunatic "truths." So they plopped a pal table cloth on Anne Frank too....her martyrdom is only essential in that it is appropriated by some Arabic speaking tribes of the southern Levant who while not being Jewish couldn't assume the mantle of Jewishness so they invented something new. And now there are a dozen cookbooks for the coffee table on "Palestinain cuisine" much like that of France, Italy and China. And if one looks one can find the "Palestinian Wars" by Abu al Josephus about the great war that the ancient Palestinians waged against the Zionists. I'm sure Ocasio Cortez refers to it daily for accuracy.
In addition, there was the satirical Jesus in the manger sketch by some UC Berkeley 3 wise persons called "The Gospel According to Berkeley" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcLCe5iBvVc). Many of the false claims discussed above are incorporated. What was amusing 2 years ago has turned into malevolent misinformation today.
I, too, felt the same seeing in Neon lights that Jesus was a Palestinian. Is it really surprising, Joshua, when most of their so called "religion" had been plagiarized because the illiterate Mohammed had no original thoughts of his own, and had his people write down whatever he thought sounded worthwhile. (Much of it from the Torah) Trouble was he couldn't remember most of what was said. Not much has changed. They're still trying to steal and rewrite their history. What bothers me the most is the influence of Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrating with trillions of dollars into every facet of the US, Europe, and elsewhere. Their propaganda has spread and the millions of young minions believe it. They have spread a dark cloud over these countries, and until it gets worse before it gets better, we will continue to see this rubbish on social media and wherever they see an opening for it.
And yet, the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Orthodox Christian leaders have made no public rejoinder to the “Jesus is a Palestinian” canard.
Then again, they fall silent before the Arab claim that there was never a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem - in direct contradiction of the Gospels.
Certainly they don’t agree with any of this anti-Jewish and anti-Christian polemic, yet they are too cowardly to speak the Truth. Are they afraid of being called out as “Zionists” or “Islamophobes”? Whatever the justification for this abject silence, it won’t protect them or their flocks from a triumphant Islam on the march.
The failure of the Pope and Christian leaders who fail to correct this makes them complicit in what they know is a major lie. Hardly a claim to moral leadership.
Appeasement is a thing. It never works, but the leaders you cite keep trying. Meanwhile, as Bat Ye'or once described, the Christian populations of Muslim-contolled countries/cities drastically decline.
Leadership is terrified of having their buildings bombed and worshippers slaughtered ….. getting the big Christian leaders to call out this garbage is a tough ask. .., the world in general if afraid of upsetting extremist Muslims. A very sad state of affairs
Denying Jesus was Jewish is part of a long campaign which by far predates the Israel-Palestinian conflict. The fact is that for three hundred years after Christ’s life, the early Christians were Jews.
Yet Jews who find Yeshua as Messiah are not Christians, can't be and never will they be Christian because Jews will always keep their Jewish identity. Even I know that fact.
Old paradox then: Was Jewish Jesus the first Christian? Yes. He is therefore in fact both. So you can be both if Christ was both. Simple deductive logic.
Except that during his lifetime, Jesus identified as a Jew and followed Jewish laws and practice. And so did all the disciples. The concept of being a Christian evolved afterwards. Logic needs to be tethered to fact.
Are you saying Christ was not a Christian? The Early Jewish Christian sect were Jewish Christians too.
Not a Christian. Ever.
Show me where Jesus describes himself as a “Christian”. I’m unaware of his ever saying such a thing. In fact, the first few generations of followers saw themselves as Jewish, nothing else.
Only after the sect separated itself from Judaism did anyone look at Jesus as the “first” Christian but that’s a different discussion.
They were and remain followers of Christ. Therefore whatever they called themselves they were both Jewish and followers of Christ. What they called themselves is semantics. Jesus was both Jewish and Christ.
According to them, Adam, Abraham, Jacob, Isaac, Moses all were Palestinians. I’m just waiting for them to say Socrates, Buddha and Confucius were Palestinians.
We HAVE to fight back. I’m sure the Mossad has the capability of hijacking every media source, every computer and every television, for 5 minutes at a time. Force the world to watch brief reels of the truth, perhaps narrated by someone in a Guy Fawkes mask. Start with “there is NO ‘palestine’…this was a creation of the old KGB.” Next, Jesus was a Jew who lived in ancient Judea. Then: the ‘palestinians” don’t want peace, they want the Jews dead. And so on. And it wouldn’t hurt if, in the meantime, the Qatari oil fields suddenly all exploded simultaneously.
WE HAVE TO ACT! We cannot continue to let Jew-haters control the narrative.
On January 1st, billboards and tweets need to proclaim:
Jesus was circumcised on the 8th day, as are all Jewish boys. Happy New Year!
Amen.
It’s I interesting to note that Mohammed didn’t appear until the seventh century
Actually, from my readings, the Quran holds essentially that Abraham was Muslim as well as Moses, the Hebrew prophets, and Jesus. Accordingly, their Prophet Muhammed was essentially sent as the final prophet, the messenger of Allah, to let the Jews and Christians know that they had perverted their religions and must RETURN or REVERT to Islam.
Darn it, Joshua, you’ve harshed my joke! When I first heard the Lutheran pastor from Bethlehem say “Jesus was Palestinian” in an interview I thought it was so ludicrous I could only laugh and yell at the radio, “If Jesus was Palestinian then I AM Palestinian!” But now you’ve shown us how this idiocy has infiltrated public discourse around the world and it’s no joke. SMH.
One of your best pieces ever. But lightly glossed over is the lie that Christmas was canceled in Bethlehem by Israel. Bethlehem is misruled by the PLO. The other lies are well described. Rather than worry about hasbara that is doomed to fail in the face of this onslaught, Israel should find a way, whatever it looks like, to stop its enemies from disseminating these lies online. In its own way it is as dangerous as Iran's nuclear program. It has to be stopped.
Christmas in Betlehem was not canceled by Israel. The IDF was called in by the priests looking after the Church of the Nativity to evict the Arab Muslims who had desecrated every inch of it, including smashing and urinating on the altars. and spreading feces on paintings and efigies of Christ, the Virgin and Saints.
Then as now, the Vatican remained silent. Why?
1. They are afraid of the Muslims
2. They are compromised by leftist/Muslim Jew haters.
What these people have written is blasphemy but little do these Palestinian followers realise, is that Messiah has seen them and if they think they're going to get away with it, then they are very much mistaken. Scripture clearly teaches that there is coming a day when all will have to make an account of themselves before God, which includes themselves too.
Goebbels was much more of a Palestinian than Jesus.
I remember the Vatican 2024 nativity scene which showed baby Jesus in a Kefiyeh, approved by the prior pope. The new pope isn’t any better. https://www.ksat.com/gallery/news/2024/12/11/vaticans-keffiyeh-nativity-scene-raises-eyebrows-and-then-disappears-at-least-until-christmas-eve/