Palestinians have long declared that Jesus was a Palestinian. So has Rep. Ilhan Omar.
In exploring some of the roots of how and where Jesus (Yeshua in Hebrew) came to be deemed a Palestinian, the Israeli monitoring agency Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) exposed a Palestinian Authority TV interview in which author Samih Ghanadreh from Nazareth was asked about his new book Christianity and its Connection to Islam. Ghanadeh stated that he personally heard Yasser Arafat several times affirm that Jesus was the first Palestinian martyr, and the TV host replied: “Jesus was a Palestinian, no one denies that.”
PMW cited the regularity of this declaration by prominent Palestinians, including the Governor of Ramallah Leila Ghannam (“We all have the right to be proud that Jesus is a Palestinian”), senior PA leader Jibril Rajoub (“The greatest Palestinian in history since Jesus is Yasser Arafat“), and an editorial in the PA official daily — Al-Hayat Al-Jadida — that referred to the “holy Trinity” as being Arafat, Abbas and Jesus.
As if this revisionist history were not enough, according to the official Palestinian Authority official daily, Jesus was not only a Palestinian, but a “Palestinian terrorist”:
Portraying a Palestinian terrorist suspected of murder as Jesus is in keeping with the PA’s rewriting history and its fundamental support of terror, which claims that Jesus was the first Palestinian “Martyr”, and that terrorist murderers are heroes.
As bizarre and ridiculous as this sounds, so does an entire so-called “peace process” bent on the destruction of the state of Israel (from the River to the Sea) since the day of its birth.
Christians are not out murdering — or threatening to murder — people for insulting Christianity by presenting Jesus as a jihad terrorist. That’s because Christians are not — and never were — instructed to murder people in their religious texts, which in itself further demonstrates the absurdity of comparing Jesus to a Palestinian martyr.
“Palestinian terrorist is like Jesus, according to official PA daily,” by Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, October 29, 2019:
Samer Arbid is the Palestinian terrorist arrested with two others for detonating a bomb which murdered 17-year-old Rina Shnerb and injured her father and brother near the Dolev spring on Aug. 26, 2019.
Arbid, who is a member of the terror organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was hospitalized for 2 weeks soon after his arrest, and the Palestinian Authority claimed that it was a result of his interrogation. Having allegedly been injured by Jews, the official PA daily published a cartoon portraying the terrorist as Jesus on the cross.
Portraying a Palestinian terrorist suspected of murder as Jesus is in keeping with the PA’s rewriting history and its fundamental support of terror, which claims that Jesus was the first Palestinian “Martyr”……