This Easter, let's not try to pretend Jesus was a 'Palestinian Jew'

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31. The latest canard to erase Jewish history.

“Jesus was not Palestinian, we need to dispel that myth forever” - opinion

In reality, Jesus was a proud, observant Jew who lived in his indigenous homeland of Judea and Galilee – from manger to grave. The myth that Jesus was Palestinian, a ploy designed to invite Christians to support Palestinian nationalism, often morphs into deliberate efforts to deny Jews their history, indigeneity, and right to sovereignty in Israel. Ironically, as Jews seek to combat rising antisemitism, now might be a good time to set the record straight on Christianity’s most important figure.

Trying to erase Jewish connections to the land
The term Palestine derives from Philistia after the land of the Philistines, a people originally from the Aegean coastline (modern-day Greece and Turkey). Goliath was defeated and the Philistines disappeared centuries before Jesus was born. After Imperial Rome defeated the third Jewish uprising, Roman forces massacred and expelled massive numbers of Jews from Judea and renamed it: Syria Palaestina. This was in 135 CE, over a century after Jesus’s death (sometime around 27-33 CE).
The new name was “to minimize Jewish identification with the land” and punish the rebellious Jews by naming the country after their biblical enemies.
As evidenced by the Romans, the erasure of Jewish memory, identity, and culture from Israel has become a mainstay tactic for antisemites over millennia.

What would Jesus now say about Palestinian-American “activists” such as comedian Amer Zaher, BDS supporter Linda Sarsour, and even Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who in recent years have depicted Jesus as “Palestinian?”
Speculation abounds, but the motive for Jewish erasure deserves quick mention, given its dangerous implications.
In October 2023, Hamas terrorists invaded Israel, massacring 1,200 people. Hamas’s charter clearly seeks to distort and deny Jewish history in Israel, presenting Jews as foreign colonizers.

https://m.jpost.com/opinion/article-779313