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Joel Kontinen
”On Christmas eve last year, New York Congresswoman
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes, a member of the far-left “Squad,” sparked controversy
when she wrote a post on Instagram comparing Palestinian Arabs to Jesus – and
the State of Israel to King Herod.
“Christ was born in modern-day Palestine under the
threat of a government engaged in a massacre of innocents,” Ocasio-Cortes wrote
in her Instagram post.
As a response, “historian and Aurelio Professor of
Scripture emerita at Boston University Paula Fredriksen penned an opinion piece
published by The comparis on and suggesting the claim is akin to classic
antisemitic canard.”
Jesus was born
In Betlehem, of Jewish parents, Every Bible reader or scholar of the Bible
should know this.
As the professor Fredriksen said:
“For two millennia, Jews have been blamed for Jesus’
execution by the Romans; casting him as a Palestinian just stokes the fires of
hate, using Jesus against Jews once again.”
“It is, further, an act of cultural and political
appropriation — and a clever rhetorical move. It rips Jesus out of his Jewish
context. And it rips 1st-century Jews — and 21st-century Israeli Jews — out of
their ancestral homeland, turning them into interlopers. This is polemic masquerading as history.”
Source:
World Israel News Staff 2024. 'Don't pretend Jesus was a Palestinian' - Historian blasts AOC's 'Palestinian Jesus' tweet | World Israel News 31 March.
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