Historian called out Democrats and liberal media commentators who attempted to relate Christ's birth to the current Gaza conflict and called Jesus a 'Palestinian.'
A biblical scholar accused left-wing politicians and media figures of using Jesus to send a 'historically false' and 'inflammatory' political message about the war in Gaza this Holy Week. 'This Easter, let’s not try to pretend Jesus was a ‘Palestinian Jew,'' historian and Aurelio Professor of Scripture emerita at Boston University Paula Fredriksen implored in her scathing op-ed for the Washington Post.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., seized on the trend in a social media post on Christmas Day. 'In the story of Christmas, Christ was born in modern-day Palestine under the threat of a government engaged in a massacre of innocents,' Ocasio-Cortez wrote, referencing Jews who lived in the land over 2,000 years ago under Roman control. 'He was part of a targeted population being indiscriminately killed to protect an unjust leader’s power.
Moreover, modern-day Gaza is 'extremely hostile' to Christians, she argued, pointing to harassment and persecution against the dwindling Christian population in the region. The historian said the term 'Palestine' derived from Rome a full century after Christ's death. Thus, the attempts to appropriate Jesus as a Palestinian to attack Israel was not just 'inflammatory' but also 'historically false,' she argued.
wasn't the only one making this argument most recently. Catholic priest Father Edward Beck also made a similar comparison on CNN on Christmas Day. 'I think the message of Christmas is that God enters into it with us and we're not alone in it,' Beck said.
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