[SeekAndFind]

Start with a FAKE tweet and others with an agenda simply retweet it until it goes viral.

Omar Suleiman, an adjunct professor of Islamic studies at Southern Methodist University, tweeted a quotation from a Palestinian Christian unhappy that the Christian right doesn’t support the Palestinian cause: “Don’t they know Jesus was a Palestinian?”

Representative Ilhan Omar, bored with not having not seen herself on TV for more than 48 hours, promptly retweeted the quotation.

[john316]

So I was born in Texas over 100 years after Texas winning independence from Mexico, does that make me a Mexican?

[onedoug]

What? muslims lie?

By trade.

[mjp]

Jesus was born in the "country" of Palestine

Bethlehem is not a part of Philistine land

[lurk]

Son of David, tribe of Judah, born 5 miles from Jerusalem, grew up in Nazareth, raised in the synagogue. The sign over his head read IESOU NAZAREUM REX IOUDAIUM, Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.

[mountainlion]

The region called palestine by a Roman Cesar was not established until after the death and resurrection of Jesus. 3-400 years after renaming Israel to Palestine Mohamed collected 130 tribes and their gods into what he called Islam.

[Magnatron]

Palestine was never a state in history. It was merely a district or geographic region of what was Syria. No different than the Bronx being part of New York City. Even less so, actually, because the region was administered from Syria without a local government to speak of.

So to claim Jesus was “Palestinian” really means nothing — why don’t we hear of New Yorkers being Bronxians?

[Starstruck]

I was born in the land of American Indians and if more people knew that, they would understand why I wear a feathered headdress rather than excoriate me for cultural appropriation.

[himno hero]

... the power of illiteracy and ignorance in the turd word nations is awesome.
It lends itself to a kinds of manipulation.

[ek_hornbeck]

There's a small grain to truth to "Jesus the Palestinian", but not in the way Tlaib and others claim. Certainly asserting that Jesus or any other Biblical figure was Arab is absurd, since there simply wasn't such a thing at the time.

Rather, in the first several centuries AD, many people converted from Judaism to Christianity, especially among the peasants and poor. In later centuries, many of these families converted, either voluntarily or by force, to Islam and became Arab rather than Aramaic speakers. So no doubt many of the "Arabs" in "Palestine" today are descended from ancient Israelites. The DNA evidence shows that Jews and the Arabs of Palestine are basically the same people, at least as far as paternal ancestry goes.

[Fred Hayek]

Jesus was a Jew, a direct descendant of David. This lineage was in fulfillment of prophecy.
The Roman Empire used Palestine as an insult to Israel, due to that name referring to Philistines.