Jesus was, of course, Jewish. He was born in Bethlehem of Judea. The Church of the Nativity was built on the site believed to be where he was born. The Romans didn’t rename Judea “Palestine” until 134 AD, long after Jesus was born. The Jeopardy question seems to have been about where the Church of the Nativity is located. Bethlehem is in what is generally believed to be “occupied” “Palestinian” territory, but in reality there never has been a State of Palestine, and it never had a territory that could be occupied. Bethlehem was included in the British Mandate for Palestine, set aside for a Jewish National Home. Therefore only Israel has any right to that land. This is all about the jihad against Israel, not about “occupation,” as is clear from the fact that there was no outcry about “occupation” when Egypt occupied Gaza and Jordan occupied Judea and Samaria from 1948 to 1967. Get the facts in The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process.
“Jeopardy! Addresses Controversial Bethlehem Question Amid Backlash: ‘We Regret the Error,'” by Gabrielle Chung, People, January 14, 2020:
The producers of Jeopardy! are setting the record straight about a contentious question that aired during Friday’s episode, in which it seemingly deemed that Bethlehem is located in Israel and not Palestine in its answer.
The controversy began when contestant Katie Needle responded to a question under the “Where’s That Church?” category. When prompted by a clue about the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, where Christians believe to be the birthplace of Jesus, she answered Palestine — which host Alex Trebek said was incorrect.
Fellow contestant Jack McGuire was rewarded with $200 for buzzing in with the answer of Israel moments later, causing an uproar among Palestinian rights advocacy groups online.
Bethlehem is geographically located in Palestine, but sits on a territory currently occupied by Israel in the West Bank.
On Monday, producers released a statement to Deadline to explain the gaff, attributing the broadcast of the question to “human error in post-production.”
“In the process of taping this clue, ‘BUILT IN THE 300s A.D., THE CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY’ we became aware that the clue was flawed as written and that determining an acceptable response would be problematic,” the statement read. “In accordance with our rules and in the interest of fairness, we voided the clue and threw it out. We restored Katie’s and Jack’s scores to what they were prior to the clue. The outcome of the game was not affected.”
“Unfortunately, through human error in post-production, the uncorrected version of the game was broadcast,” the producers said. “We regret the error and we will make every effort to ensure this never happens again.”
Jeopardy! since also released a video of what should’ve replaced the question, which featured a clue about the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico….
Emilie Green says
Alex and Jeopardy, winners of this week’s Profile in Putty Award.
Our motto, “Truth be damned”
cjk says
Alex said he was sorry? I don’t think he did and i hope not because everything I’ve heard to date about him has been honorable.
gravenimage says
Jeopardy! apologizes for telling the truth about the location of the Church of the Nativity
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More witless cringing dhimmitude.
Wellington says
Indeed, gravenimage.
And how very instructive it is that loads of Westerners go out of their way not to offend the Islamic world but when has the Islamic world ever gone out of its way not to offend the non-Islamic world?
“Cringing dhimmitude” yet again as you stated.
gravenimage says
So true, Wellington. All of this “respect” is one way.
LB says
In truth, to islam, there is no such thing as a non-islamic world. It all belongs to islam, we just don’t recognize it yet.
LB says
Well hello there, fellow moniker user. Now how do we go about differentiating out posts? Hmm… I do agree with your statement though, so maybe it won’t be so bad if the people here think we’re the same person. Guess we’ll wait and see.
Robert Porter says
Very well said. The Western world is now nauseatingly cowardly and the Muslim world knows it, so milks the situation.
don vito says
Must we believe this camel urine? Delusion dominates the truth, narrative overcomes facts, welcome to dhimmicrat never world.
Ransom Ma says
What error?
Palestine doesn’t exist except as a regional designation. There is no country of Palestine. Israel however…
IslamKills says
Nothing to do with Islam. Sounds like Christians where the ones complaining.
gravenimage says
The idea that “Palestinian rights advocacy groups” are actually Christian is bizarre. More whitewash of Muslims and slander of Christians. In fact Muslim persecution has only 1-3% Christians remaining in the “West Bank” (Gaza is even worse).
But then, IslamKills has said that he hates Israel:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/01/mahmoud-abbas-is-livid-that-european-donors-now-place-a-condition-on-their-aid#comment-2195204
gary fouse says
What’s next? St Patrick’s Cathedral is in Palestine?
StacyGirl says
Holy hell! I almost flipped when the female contestant answered Palestine…and cheered when her male competitor said- “What is Israel?” Maybe they should have had an easy follow up question: Who occupied the Church and shot it up?
mgoldberg says
Indeed. People should go visit ‘Kever Ruchel’. The Tomb of Rachel, which is in Beis Lechem (Bethlehem)
It will open your eyes. The holy site, the burial tomb of the Jewish Matriach Rachel which was once simply a reverential tomb by a dusty road- which is where she died- by a dusty road, but now, it has to be guarded by soldiers who stand ready to prevent muslim snipers from shooting prayer goers as the enter or leave. There is a bus route there which has walls about 20 feet or so high on the road to prevent murderous attacks upon the buses. In other words, since the arabs, muslims were given the rule of Bethlehem, it is ‘occupied’ by savage Jihadist rule, that necessitated this protection be built to allow jews, christians, and anyone else who wishes to visit to see the jihadist occupation for themselves. But go… jew, or not a jew, or whatever, go, see for yourself.
maemae77 says
Bowing to Islamic propaganda I see. When are people going to start getting a backbone. Surly, Muslims aren’t going to admit that sinister verse in their Quran that demands them to conquer Israel. Then their totalitarian ideology would be exposed for the false religion that it is.
mortimer says
Before 1967, Bethlehem was in the KINGDOM OF JORDAN. However, after the liberation of the West Bank (that had been ILLEGALLY OCCUPIED BY JORDAN with the willing support of UK), the West Bank was again called Judea and Samaria, just as in New Testament times. The New Testament refers to Syria, to Israel, to Judea and to Galilee, but never once does it refer to Palestine.
When the Roman Empire renamed the are as ‘Palaestina’, the name stuck, since that was the name used by European Romans. The Crusaders continued to use the Roman name and in the 20th century, Europeans still thought of the region as Palestine, but the Ottomans used a number of different names for the region and though of it as a part of Syria … NOT Palestine (which would suggest it was European). Arabs always thought of the region as LOWER SYRIA and under suzerainty of Damascus.
Arabs have always avoided the name ‘Palestine’ and the first example of ‘Palestinian’ in Arabic only appears in 1898.
Khalil Beidas writes in his preface to his translation of Akim Olesnitsky’s ‘A Description of the Holy Land: “…the people of Palestine were in need of a geography book about their country… the Palestinian peasant waits impatiently for winter to come, for the season’s rain to moisten his fossilized fields”.
It has been proposed that this represents the first instance in modern history where the term ‘Palestinian’ or ‘Filastini’ appears in Arabic. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_name_%22Palestine%22#Rashidun,_Umayyad_and_Abbasid_Caliphates_period)
It is clear that the term ‘FIlastini’ in this passage is not a reference to an ethnicity, but refers instead to Arabs living in Palestine, Lower Syria.
mortimer says
Luke 2:4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into JUDAEA, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem.
mortimer says
The only reason Arabs now use the term ‘Palestine’ is because they were talked into it by the KGB. The designation of the area as ‘Palestine’ was an idea that didn’t come from the Arabs.
Ever since the time of the Islamic empire of Damascus and the Islamic empire of Baghdad, the Land of Israel has mostly been called Lower Syria by the Arab Muslims.
fred says
For people who ‘have no dog’ in these religious squabbles since they haven’t been taken in by faith-based indoctrination, we find all this pearl-clutching to be silly and laughable about where their favorite imaginary deity was born, and their strident certitude about how historically true their man-made, fairy-tale books of religious fiction are. It’s like watching 10 year old boys arguing over who is more real Batman or Spiderman, or Zeus vs.Thor and endless fighting over birth places, and claims to land held by the early followers of these fairy tales, and who’s fantasy God(s) are the real ones and the most powerful and Divine. Just think how plausible it is that the monstrous and tyrannical (infinite and invisible by the way) Old Testament Sky-Daddy Lord of The Universe in His Sacred Role as a Cosmic Real-Estate Agent bequeathed a barren tiny piece of land to a bunch of His Chosen Peeps? There is zero historical, anthropological, or scientific evidence for any of this, or any story in The Bible. It is all believed simply because an ancient book of tales was orally passed down, then written by unknown, primitive, ignorant, superstitious men. We also know this book which is desperately proclaimed to be the ‘infallible word of god’ – where the original manuscript was never found, and went through centuries of mis-translations, multiple corrupted copies, many additions and subtractions… Let’s get real folks and get off of the blind-faith hobby horse so real substantive conversations can take place here.
gravenimage says
fred has weighed in here before with his false moral equivalence, Does he have any problem with Jihad terror? Not that I have seen.
Fred says
Then you must be blind or willfully lying about my posts. I challenge every intellectually honest subscriber of this blog to read all my comments. I have nothing but a vile contempt for Islam and it’s jihadi terrorist endeavors. Just because I observe that many comments posted on this site are by rabid Christians and I honestly point out the futility of their prayers to their imaginary deity as well as the evils, delusions, hypocrisies, sexual crimes, and historically accurate terror their faith has perpetrated upon humanity for 2000 years, doesn’t mean I give any other cult or religion a pass and never would regarding its propagation of horrific suffering and barbaric behaviors anywhere on the planet. Robert Spencer is one of my intellectual heroes and this Jihad Watch newsletter is read by me every day and I deeply appreciate how crucial it is to reveal the naked dark truth about Islam and jihadism. Gravenimage, for some reason I push your buttons because I also place your religious dogmas under scrutiny and the bright light of reason, and highlight uncomfortable truths about blind-faith in general and the ineffectiveness of prayer to fairy tale Gods and their obvious absence and indifference.
gravenimage says
Recently fred was sneering at Christian victims of Islam, and saying that Robert Spencer is considered only to oppose Islam because it is a “rival faith”–what vicious calumny.
Then, fred keeps babbling about my “religious dogmas” despite having no idea what my beliefs are.
I said I considered it disgusting that he was sneering at the victims of Islam whatever their beliefs.
Cruelty towards innocent victims in no way “reflects the bright light of reason”,
Fred says
Gravenimage can not be trusted as an intellectually honest participant in these discussions. He has not read my comments at face-value and in the full proper context. He instead becomes intellectually lazy and corrupt and fabricates a straw-man argument. I never once ‘sneered’ at the Christian victims of Islamic terror- how stupid would that be? In fact show us any statement I wrote IN CONTEXT that demonstrates that!
If I ‘sneered’ at all it was at the foundations of blind faith, indoctrination, and dogma inherent in all religions and the futility of praying to imaginary beings. As far as Robert Spencer goes, and I repeat – even though he is sincere and attempts objective reporting, which I greatly appreciate, the fact he and many of his followers are devout Christians can be used by his critics and detractors against his important work. Can Gravenimage finally get my sentiments clear in his head and make an appropriate apology to me or embarrassingly double down on his dishonest misrepresentations? … we will see?
gravenimage says
More from Fred:
Gravenimage can not be trusted as an intellectually honest participant in these discussions. He has not read my comments at face-value and in the full proper context. He instead becomes intellectually lazy and corrupt and fabricates a straw-man argument. I never once ‘sneered’ at the Christian victims of Islamic terror- how stupid would that be? In fact show us any statement I wrote IN CONTEXT that demonstrates that!
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This is what fred (he was not capitalizing his name a few days ago) had to say in response to Muslims kidnapping and murdering Christians in Nigeria:
“…Let’s get back to that first sentence… “Again, the world will yawn and do nothing.” Most importantly, who else has been ‘yawning’, in fact sleeping through all these horrific atrocities without a caring look or lifting a hand toward these poor, persecuted Christians? Bingo… the Christian God, His Son, and His army of protective angels. I think the evidence is overwhelmingly clear – and almost unthinkable for most indoctrinated Christians – that their cherished Sky-Daddy and His Superman Son maybe be imaginary, a pure delusion, and all the tearful and energetic prayers crying out for Divine interventions are useless, just mere thoughts and words.”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/01/185740#comment-2193896
This certainly sounds like sneering at the victims to me–and to any other honest person.
And one need not be Christian to find this appalling. For instance, I am not Hindu myself, but would find taking the occasion of Hindus being murdered to sneer at their praying to Hindu Gods to be particularly sickening.
More:
If I ‘sneered’ at all it was at the foundations of blind faith, indoctrination, and dogma inherent in all religions and the futility of praying to imaginary beings.
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Not so–as anyone can tell who reads the above, this was quite specifically aimed at the Christian victims of this attack.
There are many Agnostics and Atheists here at Jihad Watch, who often express their views on religion. This is *quite* different from heaping derision on the victims of Jihad.
More:
As far as Robert Spencer goes, and I repeat – even though he is sincere and attempts objective reporting, which I greatly appreciate, the fact he and many of his followers are devout Christians can be used by his critics and detractors against his important work.
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Again, this is absurd. Firstly, Robert Spencer has *never* used Jihad Watch as a platform from which to preach Christianity. He rarely mentions being Christian here at all.
fred wrote this in the same comment I linked to above:
“Now, Robert and many of his readers are committed Christians which unfortunately adds a biased motivation and slant to his work, or at least this is what his detractors will proclaim. I believe Robert attempts to generally publish objective information regarding Islam and its transgressions, but how much better would it be if it came from a ‘freethinker’ completely unattached to a rival faith?”
The implication that Robert Spencer and other religious Anti-Jihadists only oppose the horrors of Jihad and Shari’ah because Islam is a “rival faith” is grotesque calumny.
And the idea that apologists for Islam are respectful of all Atheists who speak out against Jihad is also absurd–just look at the opprobrium heaped by many on Anti-Jihadists of any faith–and none.
There are also many Anti-Jihadists who do not mention what faith they may follow–if any. This is true of contributors like Christine Douglass-Williams, as well as true of many posters such as myself. I simply do not consider it to be germane here.
More:
Can Gravenimage finally get my sentiments clear in his head and make an appropriate apology to me or embarrassingly double down on his dishonest misrepresentations? … we will see?
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Why should I apologize to Fred for finding his contempt for the victims of Jihad odious? As for the claim that I am not being honest re his repellent sarcasm, anyone can read his comments for themselves. (I note that Fred did not link to his own comments himself–very telling. No doubt he realized how damning they are).
And for the record, I am not male–I’m a woman, Just one of the many things that Fred has gotten wrong.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Infidel. Fine post.
WPM says
It goes on beyond religious belief ,it has to do with a nation borders and nation right to exist according to history. Israel has existed for over 3,000 years as Jewish nation ,in that time it has been ruled over by many foreign invading armies ,be they Roman, Islamic, British ect. The Palestine myth came about after 1948 went the many Moslems that were citizens with rights to vote ,own property hold elected office , work any job of the” new ” Israel left it to join in the fighting against this their own nation and have spent the last 70 years trying to “drive the Jews into the sea” by any means possible. You do not have to believe in God to believe in the right of Israel to exist ,Moslems always want to rewrite history ,move borders, steal land, money, make slaves of the ‘unbelievers” be they Jew Christian, or atheist .If you let them change the truth, rewrite history to justify their foul actions a little at a time they will do that.
OLD GUY says
They can all go to their safe place drink little hot chocolate or wine and get over it. Facts are facts Palestine never really existed until after world war II. The Muslims are just wrong again and won’t accept facts.
FYI says
Asking questions is a very good way of finding out things and game shows often make it quite interesting and entertaining.
Imagine an islamic version of Jeopardy with a group of islamic scholars asked a few simple questions..
Host:The Christian Doctrine of the Trinity consists of Jesus and who else?$200 question
muslims:{buzz}
allah and {conferring amongst themselves}..MARY It says so in koran 5:116
It is allah,Jesus and MARY…..3 gods in a polytheistic system.
Host:Mary?No no,i’m pretty sure Mary is NOT in the Doctrine of the Trinity..Ok another question $500
The koran says that the right of prophethood was given to the Children of Israel koran 45:16 so an authentic prophet had to satisfy that requirement.
What religion was muhammed?
muslims;{buzz}..definitely not Jewish….
Robert_k says
Jeopardy was in jeopardy over offending Jihadi Muslims and Christian Islamophiles (James Zogby and Company) so it apologized.
Carol the 1st says
Wow! Grimly amusing and edifying at the same time! Maybe Bill Warner or David Wood would give it some thought.
Carol the 1st says
Oops…this post was meant to be a response to StacyGirl saying “Maybe they should have had an easy follow up question: Who occupied the Church and shot it up?”