Saying that Jesus was the first Palestinian is a tacit admission that there is no Palestinian nationality, since Jesus is not considered by anyone to be the father of a race of people. This is just political posturing which will appeal to the professional victimhood industry: to be “Palestinian” is to be oppressed, you see, and Jesus was arrested and crucified, ergo, Jesus is “Palestinian.” Azzam Al-Ahmad is defining “Palestinian” identity solely in terms of the “Palestinian” jihad against Israel, which is fitting enough, since the “Palestinian” nationality itself was invented as a tool of that jihad.
“Christmas is a ‘Palestinian symbol’ and ‘Jesus was the first Palestinian,’ says senior Fatah leader,” by Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, December 25, 2018:
For years, the Palestinian Authority and Fatah have presented Jesus as a Palestinian, as part of its fabricating an ancient Palestinian history.
This year was no exception. On the occasion of Christmas, a top Fatah official spoke of Jesus as “the first Palestinian” and “‘Christmas is one of the permanent Palestinian symbols.”
In their historical revision, the PA and Fatah ignore that Jesus was a Jew (“Judean”) according to Christian tradition and that the Roman Empire changed the name of the land Judea into “Palestine” only a hundred years after Jesus lived. In spite of the dishonesty, senior PA and Fatah leaders have consistently presented Jesus and his mother Mary as Palestinians and Jesus as “the first Palestinian Martyr,” and the first Palestinian refugee, as documented by Palestinian Media Watch.
The following is a statement from PLO Executive Committee member and Fatah Central Committee member Azzam Al-Ahmad yesterday at Khan Al-Ahmar, a site where Palestinian Bedouins have illegally erected buildings and dwellings.
“The lighting of the Christmas tree each year has many meanings in Palestine… Christmas is one of the permanent Palestinian symbols, and the whole world follows Mass in Bethlehem…
The children of Khan Al-Ahmar are happy about the lighting of this tree, as it is the symbol of the first Palestinian, Jesus, peace be upon him. We, the members of the Palestinian people, celebrating Christmas together with everyone in the land of Palestine…’
The same false claims about Jesus were repeated by Secretary-General of the National Initiative [and PA Parliament member] Mustafa Barghouti:
“Jesus, who was born on this land, was a Palestinian and defeated his suffering.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 20, 2018]A few among the many examples of PA and Fatah leaders calling Jesus a Palestinian include:
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas stated that: “We celebrate the birth of Jesus, a Palestinian messenger of love, justice and peace.” [WAFA, Dec. 22, 2014]…
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
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libertyORdeath says
They really will say anything to try to convince the world that Palestine has ever been a country. Even jesus can be coopted apparently.
Merry Christmas everyone!!!
FYI says
“We Jews know whom we worship because it is from the Jews that salvation comes”
John 4 v 22
Jesus Christ is a Jew and as a descendant of King David {Matthew 1 v 17} would have no difficulty accepting Israel’s prophetically-promised right to exist.
On that basis Jesus would not be a palestinian:more likely an Israeli Jew….
Let us not forget that in islam,Jesus is a muslim{like Moses and Elijah were muslims}:Ridiculous of course but islam likes to appropriate things that don’t belong to it,especially JEWISH prophets.
TPOG says
WARNING! WARNING!
The Anglican Church of Canada has now become politically correct. The following is a quote from pamphlet handed out on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at the church I attend;
“…..with little hope or money, a Palestinian-Jewish couple entered into an ancestral town without enough hospitality to embrace even a woman in labour……”
Bethlehem is in the West Bank nowhere near the Gaza Strip. In today’s context this might be true, but historically its hogwash.
Now the pals are claiming Christmas and Jesus for themselves. Slightly schizophrenic — aren’t they persecuting Christians in slime countries.
WAKE UP, PEOPLE!!!
mortimer says
VERY GOOD WORK, FYI …
HERE ARE THE FACTS of ANGLICAN POLITY …
The Church of England and the Kingdom of England are both formed on the Biblical model of the ancient KINGDOM OF ISRAEL … not on some mythical ancient Islamic State of Palestine (a state that never existed except in a Marxist FANTASY thought up by the KGB).
The ACW writers of such an AHISTORICAL NARRATIVE are MARXISTS CREATING PROPAGANDA.
mortimer says
Correction: ACC
Mirren10 says
”Now the pals are claiming Christmas and Jesus for themselves. Slightly schizophrenic …”
Not really, except insofar as the entire mohammedan world is schizophrenic.
‘palestinians’ will glom onto *anything* they think will legitimise their spurious claims.Including claiming Christian symbols, whilst persecuting and murdering Christians. Just islam.
Milo says
Ignorance is bliss and these ill informed people show how ignorant they really are by not checking history; the Roman emperor Hadrian renamed Israel Palestine long after Yeshua’s life and death in the land. Sadly, the equally ignorant left will believe them
dumbledoresarmy says
Precisely. Nobody at the time of Yeshua/ Yehoshuah, nor for another 100+ years, ever thought of the land of Canaan, Land of Israel, as “Palestine”. The word “Palestine’ does not occur ANYWHERE in the New Testament – not in the Gospels, not in the Epistles, not in the Book of Revelation. The authors don’t know or use that toponym.. it does not exist for them. They speak of Israel, Galilee, Judea and Samaria.
Thelastvirgingoat says
If Jesus was the first Palestinian
Let’s put them to the test. kill them all,if they rise from the dead after three days they get to keep the land.
Thelastvirgingoat says
I’m sorry for this impulsive cynical joke on the Lords birthday. Feel free to delete it if you think it’s offensive.
gravenimage says
I understand your point…
Ernie says
Hahaha… I love it ! you have a great sense of humor , Thelastsurviving goat . Don’t worry , it’s fine !
Elizabeth Thomson says
Great suggestion. Jesus is Lord.
somehistory says
satan would like to defeat Jesus Christ. The demon has tried for two thousand years. Since he has been unable to defeat Christ, his children are trying to appropriate Him. If successful in this, it would be a huge defeat for Christians.
Just as moslims take over church buildings and make them into barracks for their evil war, they are trying the same thing with Jesus Christ. They claim He is moslim, and now claiming He is a fictional person in order to defeat Him and His divine purpose…saving or redeeming, mankind from sin and death.
satan the devil is a loser and so are his children losers.
Guy Jones says
Oh, the first “Palestinian,” was a Jew named Jesus, huh? Interesting — so, those Jews were around in “Palestine,” millennia before Islam was ever conceived.
What despicable and contemptible propaganda from Fatah — Muslim respect Christians in the Middle East so much, they’re happy to commit genocide and other atrocities, against them.
mgoldberg says
and yet…. the christians are the victim of islam, of ‘palestinian’ faux nationality and victimhood and are forbidden from ever mentioning let alone discussing any of that.
Sound familiar?
Victory in Christ says
The more the truth about islam bubbles to the surface the more peculiar the narrative. I believe this is the practice of Muruna or a variation of it. A person or culture would have to jam their heads deep into the sand to come up with this revision. Jesus walked this earth as a Jew. If the situation weren’t so deadly this would be silly. islam sounds an looks like a psychological “Keystone Cops.”
revereridesagain says
Box this one up and ship him to Younus Kathrada. Watch some more fun.
Rarely says
We can REALLY start to worry when they start claiming that Mickey Mouse was a muslim when we all know that the only muslim in that group was Daffy Duck.
R Russell says
Not Palestine, Judaea.
“…Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, …”
Matthew 2 v1
“…..Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, in order to register along with Mary, who was engaged to him, and was with child. While they were there, the days were completed for her to give birth. And she gave birth to her firstborn son; and she wrapped Him in cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.”
Luke 2 v 4-7
Both Mary, Jesus’ Mother and Joseph his step-father and guardian were descendants of King David through different sons. It was David who BOUGHT the threshing floor on which the first temple in Jerusalem was built.
Robin Datta says
You really should not insult dogs by saying “top dog”.
Crusades Were Right says
Hey, “Palestinians”, I’ve got news for you…
…JESUS WAS A JEW!
Wellington says
Islam in risible mode once again. What a silly excuse for a religion (anyone doubting me need only read the Koran, horribly repetitive, stupid, appropriating and overall disgusting as it is).
Of course, in addition to Islam’s silliness there is also THE MENACE, i.e., that Mohammedans can use force in this world to spread this ridiculous excuse for a religion. Minus THE MENACE, Islam would have died out long ago. Yes, take away things like death for apostasy and forced subordination of non-Muslims, and Islam would have been a has-been long before our time.
Brute force keeps Islam alive more than any other factor. One knows this or should know it. You should be really proud of this all you deluded Muslims out there.
abu taleb says
Muslims will say anything including lies and slanders for the sake of their false god, and they are proud for doing that.
What kind of religion that glorify lies and slanders except an evil one.
mortimer says
JESUS WAS NOT A ‘PALESTINIAN’ … JESUS ONLY CALLED HIMSELF ‘AN ISRAELITE’ and one the highest compliments recorded in the New Testament is when Jesus called Nathaniel a ‘TRUE ISRAELITE’.
THE NEW TESTAMENT IS A VERY, VERY ZIONIST BOOK. The name “Jerusalem” occurs146 times in the New Testament.
The New Testament mentions ‘Israel’ or ‘Israelite’ 77 times. Jerusalem is NEVER MENTIONED AT ALL in the Koran. ‘
The Koran refers to ‘The LAND’ of Israel as the land Allah assigned to Jews and where Allah commanded Jews to dwell.
Daniel Pipes offered $1 million to anyone who can find “Jerusalem” in the Koran.
Jerusalem occurs 146 times in the New Testament and its synonym ‘Zion’ occurs 7 times.
Jerusalem is not mentioned one single time in the Koran.
The Koran has no concern whatsoever about Jerusalem. The focus of the Koran is the ‘Forbidden Mosque’ and its location is never named. The Umayyads under Abd al-Malik tried (unsuccessfully) to change the religious center from Mecca/Medina to Jerusalem. No Arab thought Jerusalem was of importance to the Arabian cults. Arabs have almost entirely ignored Jerusalem. Mosques in Damascus and Baghdad and other shrines were more important.
The name ‘Israel’ is mentioned 46 times in the Koran.’The Children of Israel’ are mentioned 20 times in the Quran frequently in the context of ‘The Land’ of Israel.
The name ‘Palestine’ occurs ZERO times in the Koran.
The ‘eternal, perfect, and complete’ book of Allah never mentions ‘Palestine’, but mentions ‘Israel’ only.
THE QIBLA NEVER FACED JERUSALEM. All the early mosques face only towards PETRA in southern Jordan and never towards Jerusalem. The idea that Mohammed prayed towards Jerusalem is not confirmed by any external or archaeological evidence. It is clear that Arabs prayed towards their pagan holy city of Petra where there were kept their holiest idols of Dhu Shara (the war god) and of Allat (the Arabian mother goddess). Mohammed’s tribe worshipped ‘ALLAT’ (Kora=Greek for ‘maiden’). The Koraysh tribe was named for the MAIDEN-GODDESS it worshipped at Petra, NOT at JERUSALEM.
When did Jerusalem take on any importance to Muslims?
A:Jerusalem only took on interest to Muslims when the infamous Nazi Mufti Mohammed Amin al-Husseini promoted the genocidal 1920s myth that “Jews are destroying Al Aqsa”, thus taking Jerusalem out of the shadows of irrelevance where it had been for centuries. The Mufti was a friend of Hitler, Himmler and Adolf Eichmann. Husseini encouraged the genocidal extermination of Jews and used the Dome of the Rock as an issue to motivate Arabs to hate Jews.
Mark Swan says
Thank You mortimer, for all your work here, it is enlightening.
gravenimage says
Agreed. Mark.
Merry Christmas to both you and Mortimer!
gravenimage says
Fatah top dog: Christmas is “permanent Palestinian symbol. This tree is the symbol of the first Palestinian, Jesus”
…………………
This, at the same tie they are violently driving Christians out of the Holy Land, including Bethlehem, the literal birthplace of Christianity.
Muslims have *no shame*.
infidel says
Islam claims everything under the sun as theirs and Muslims are masters in this business. They even claim the Hindu sacred texts and say that our sacred texts point to their prophet,,, even though out Hindu scriptures are timeless and ancient and these fellows are only 1400 yrs old..
Indiana Tom says
I thought the Palestinians just got through saying that Christmas is evil.
Gaza: Jihadis warn that “celebrating Christmas is evil”
Chatillon says
Islam is the Religion of the Pod People, the Religion of Identity Theft. Did “Palestinian Jesus” ever say “I know Mine and Mine Know Me?”If so, let the proponents of this “Jesus” bring forth their evidence. Trust, but verify…
And never forget that Islam’s jihad is but one front of several targeting the remnants of Christian Civilization. Mammon, Mohammed and Marxism have teamed up to see to it. Interesting times.
IHS!
Kilauea says
Jesus was the first Palestinian? Everybody wants to claim that Jesus is part of their culture, but they don’t want to do what Jesus says.
somehistory says
+2
Terry Gain says
The whole world has been Islamic from the very beginning, so of course Jesus is a Muslim and Christmas is an Islamic holiday. All of this is explained in THE ART OF THE STEAL aka THE KORAN.
James Whitney says
I thought Palestinian’s were of the Islamic faith, which denies the crucifixion of Jesus (Qur’an 4.157). Therefore, according to Islamic tradition, Jesus could not have been a martyr.
Tony46 says
Romans soldiers to Joseph and Mary:
-where do you live and which one is the town of your ancestors?
Joseph:
-We live in Nazareth and our ancestor’s town is Bethlehem, King’s David’s town.
Roman:
-Then go to Bethlehem to be enrolled there in the town of your ancestors.
(Elaboration from Luke chapter 2).
No mention of any other nation here.
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