The myth that Jesus was a Palestinian dates back to the days of Yasser Arafat, when his trusted Christian-Palestinian adviser Hanan Ashrawi made the claim. Since then, the idea resurfaces now and again, according to Cooper.
Jesus is a lot of things to a lot of people. To me, He is my Saviour and friend who paid the debt of sin that I owed on that dark day on the cross at Calvary. To others Jesus is a good man, a prophet, a teacher, and some couldn't care less about Him. But no one, in the right minds, would ever in a million literal years deny the fact that Jesus was a Jew. He certainly could not have been a 'palestinian', why? Because no such place as Palestine as a nation ever existed, and there has never been until the later part of the 20th century, a people group calling themselves palestinian.
"And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS." Luke 23:38 (KJV)
West Bank and Gaza Strip are also 20th century names, in the bible these places are known as Judea and Samaria. Jesus was born in Bethlehem, another place in the bible that was part of Israel. So what does all this have to do with newly-elected Muslim congresswoman Ilhan Omar? Plenty.
From the day she took office,
we warned you to brace yourselves for trouble. Omar, a Muslim, is rabidly anti-semitic and hates the Jews and the sovereign state of Israel. Omar and her other Muslim buddy Rashida Harbi Tlaib are longtime supporters of the
anti-Israel BDS Movement. Now Ilhan Omar has resurrected the tired old myth started by Yasser Arafat that Jesus Christ was somehow a 'palestinian' in a pathetic attempt to justify the existence of and for a Palestinian state.
"In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts." Zechariah 14:20,21 (KJV)
It won't wash, Ms. Omar, and if you and your Jew-hating Muslim buddies would ever take the time to read the bible, you would see that from cover to cover Jesus is 100% Jew through and through. Not only that, the prophet Zechariah tells us that when Jesus King of the Jews
returns to sit on the throne of David in the Millennium, that the Canaanite from whom the modern-day 'palestinians' are descended from, won't be allowed anywhere near Jerusalem. Looks like God has
a One State Solution in mind after all.
WAS JESUS A PALESTINIAN AND WHY WOULD MUSLIM CONGRESSWOMAN ILHAN OMAR CARE?
FROM THE JERUSALEM POST: Was Jesus a Palestinian and why does Congresswoman Ilhan Omar care? These are questions that Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean and director of global social action agenda for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, asked this week, after the congresswoman retweeted a New York Times op-ed by Eric V. Copage, which 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 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.”
Cooper said that for people who “don’t like Jews to begin with, it is a deadly combination of the Jews killed Jesus and now they are doing the same to his progeny,” he continued. “From a political and propaganda point of view, there is something to be gained.”
The myth that Jesus was a Palestinian dates back to the days of Yasser Arafat, when his trusted Christian-Palestinian adviser Hanan Ashrawi made the claim. Since then, the idea resurfaces now and again, according to Cooper.
“The absurdity of it is breathtaking,” Cooper said of Jesus being a Palestinian. “Jesus was born in Bethlehem, think about who is parents were – his mother, Mary, was betrothed to Joseph, a carpenter. In the Gospels, there is no mention of Palestine, only Judea, which is where Jews lived.”
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.
He said Omar “knows this narrative is false but also that it has an inherent power to it,” said Cooper. “The ‘Benjamins,’ the big lie of dual loyalty, Jesus is a Palestinian - it is all rewriting history to plant in people’s minds that the Palestinian people go back thousands of years."
“She is a very clear person,” Cooper continued. “Ilhan Omar is a clever anti-semite, so truth does not play much of a role anyway.” He added that, “When an elected member of the US Congress retweets such a thing, that takes things to the next level.”
Some people came out in defense of Omar, such as American Muslim scholar, civil rights activist, writer and speaker Omar Suleiman. He tweeted a speech by American Protestant Minister William J. Barber II, who likewise made the claim that "Jesus, a brown-skinned Palestinian Jew" and called out the misplaced hate directed at Omar.
Cooper said he was surprised The New York Times allowed Copage to publish an op-ed with such a line, and expected such information only to be shared on platforms like Facebook and Twitter, where users can get away with much more before it is identified - if it is ever identified - as fake news.
The solution: education, he said.
“It is extremely important for world Jewry and Jewish families to teach their own and go over our amazing love affair between the people and her land that stands for more than 3,000 years,” said Cooper, noting that is the responsibility of educated Jews and Christians to counter such falsehoods.
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