This having been the Christmas season, the ever-brilliant AOC invoked the image of Christ to support her latest hair-brained agenda item.
She has once again demonstrated her bar-tending-skills brilliance by dropping upon the world the disclosure that Jesus was from a family of “Jewish Palestinians.”
What a putz she is.
This from frontpagemag.com.
Leftists simply cannot be expected to acknowledge Jesus as what he truly was, a Jew. Their hypocritical antisemitism allows them to adore those who call themselves Palestinians but still despise Jews. Doubtful anyone has tried to help them to understand Jews are no more semitic than those who call themselves Palestinian. In fact, Ashkenazi Jews (as differing from Sephardic Jews) are believed to have originated in northcentral Eurasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea as early as 740 AD when the Empire of Khazaria mass converted to Judaism.
And so, Jesus must become a Palestinian, one of the [L]eft’s favorite victim classes, and one [L]eftists have loved with a special ardor ever since the Hamas massacre of 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023.
In line with this, New York Jewish Week reported Wednesday that AOC’s Christmas message:
[Drew] parallels between Jesus’ persecutors and present-day Israel.
The erudite Bronx theologian informed the witless millennials who hang on her every word:
Jesus was born in modern-day Palestine at a time when the ruling government perpetrated a massacre of innocents.
So, is she trying to say those who call themselves Palestinian perpetrated a massacre innocents? Likely, someone gave her a cue card to read and she pulled a Biden trying to tell the story. And the Palestinian jihad against the Jewish state was totally omitted.
AOC pressed her point more explicitly, adding that:
Jesus was part of a targeted population being indiscriminately killed to protect an unjust leader’s power. Thousands of years later, right-wing forces are violently occupying Bethlehem as similar stories unfold for today’s Palestinians.
This lurid fantasy has nothing to do with what Israel is actually doing in Gaza, and of course AOC made no mention of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre of 1,200 Israelis, but this is the sort of thing that is fashionable on the Left these days, and if AOC performs anything, she gets her talking points from the same source as all the other twits on the Left.
New York Jewish Week added that:
[T]he text in the story post was superimposed over an image of a baby doll in a pile of concrete rubble, a variation of the traditional nativity scene that became a motif for pro-Palestinian activists ahead of Christmas.
Christian leaders in Bethlehem, traditionally seen as the birthplace of Jesus, called off Christmas celebrations this year to express solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.
They not only did that, but they put the baby Jesus in a pile of rubble themselves, in solidarity with the suffering Gazans. The hypocrisy of AOC’s generation added piously:
When we justify the bombing of children,
Jesus is under the rubble.
No one is actually justifying the bombing of children, and no bombing would be taking place at all had not Hamas However, the “Jesus was a Palestinian” theme was too useful to be hindered by such prosaic things as facts.
Nor is AOC the first or only one to resort to such name dropping. A Roman Catholic priest, Fr. Edward Beck, said on CNN the day after Christmas that Jesus was a “Palestinian Jew.” And back in April 2019, AOC’s partner in victimhood propaganda, Rep. Ilhan Omar (C/G-Mogadishu), retweeted a tweet from a prominent moslem cleric, Omar Suleiman, claiming that a Palestinian Christian had asked this of the Christian right in America:
Don’t they know we’re Christian too? Do they even consider us human? Don’t they know Jesus was a Palestinian?
Saying that Jesus was a Palestinian betrays an ignorance of history. As The Palestinian Delusion explains, in the year 134AD, the Romans expelled the Jews from their homeland of Judea (“land of the Jews”) after the Bar Kokhba revolt and renamed the region Palestine as a part of wiping out all remembrance of the Jews.
That was 100 years after Jesus, who lived in Judea. When Jesus was crucified, the Roman governor Pontius Pilate had the charge placed on a sign over his head: “King of the Jews,” that is, a supposed insurrectionist. Pilate did not have written “King of the Palestinians.”
The Romans had plucked the name “Palestine” from the Bible; it was the name of the Israelites’ ancient enemies, the Philistines. But never did the term “Palestinian” refer to anything but a region—not to a people or an ethnicity. In the 1960s, however, the KGB and Hajj Amin al-Husseini’s nephew, Yasir Arafat, created both these allegedly oppressed people and the instrument of their freedom—the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The idea of a “Palestinian people” is one of the most successful propaganda fictions in human history.
AOC and her allies are trying to extend the success of that propaganda by incorporating Jesus into their fictional scenario. It is all the more important, in the face of this, for patriots to be aware and informed of genuine history, and equipped to do battle against the propaganda deluge.
