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Susan Sullivan's avatar

This description of Jesus is nothing short of blasphemy. Any Christians knows that Jesus was a Jew and a good Jew.

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Miss Jane Dowsing's avatar

More than a good Jew, He was perfect and without sin/any wrong doing.

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Kim's avatar
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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.

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Anne Kelly's avatar

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.

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Zain de Ville's avatar

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.

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ryan's avatar
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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.

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Dan's avatar

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.

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Miss Jane Dowsing's avatar

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.

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Dan's avatar

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.

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Charles Knapp's avatar

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.

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Dan's avatar

Are you saying Christ was not a Christian? The Early Jewish Christian sect were Jewish Christians too.

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Charles Knapp's avatar

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.

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Dan's avatar
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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.

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Diane Steiner's avatar

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.

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Ruth Vanita's avatar

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.

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Charles Knapp's avatar

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.

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Jan Sapir's avatar

It’s I interesting to note that Mohammed didn’t appear until the seventh century

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Earon Davis's avatar

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.

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Miss Jane Dowsing's avatar

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.

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Suzy's avatar
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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.

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Kafr Dhimmi's avatar

Issa as they call Jesus was definitely a Jew probably the first person to be called rabbi.

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EllisGee's avatar

Rabbi, an honorific that means ‘ my teacher’ was on use for millenia before the birth of Jesus!

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Mark M's avatar

Makes sense that if Jesus was a Palestinian that it was the Palestinians who crucified Christ.

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Kafr Dhimmi's avatar

Nice try but not likely we Jews had 4 types of capital punishment and crucifixion was absolutely not one of them.

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Mark M's avatar

My comment was a cynical comment about the outrageous appropriation of our Jewish heritage by bigots.

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Miss Jane Dowsing's avatar

That's because it was the Romans that crucified Jesus, not Jews, little will some people grasp the reality of that truth too.

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Moses Maimonides's avatar

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.

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Tamara S. Fisch's avatar

On January 1st, billboards and tweets need to proclaim:

Jesus was circumcised on the 8th day, as are all Jewish boys. Happy New Year!

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Steve S's avatar

They will just say the Jews at the time of Jesus were all Palestinians who also happened to be Jews, but all became Muslim after Muhammad wrote the Koran. Any nonsense BS passes with that crowd. The fiction they push is that the people who call themselves Jews today, whether Ashkenazi, Sephardic, or even Mizrahi who never left Israel, are foreigners who colonized the land and displaced Palestinians. Thus Jesus was a Palestinian, which denotes no religion, and also a Jew, but not like the Jews who "colonize" Palestine today. This is their lie, and they are sticking with it.

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