Patent nonsense. The government of Herod did not do this until after He was born. AOC, you can't even get your timelines correct!
Herod was in fact, Rome’s appointed indigenous compliant psychopathic low-born Jewish “kapo”, a stooge, as “King of the Jews” and ordered the massacre to preempt being unseated by a newly-born and prophesied King of the Jews
Meanwhile, the King of Palestine…er, leader of Palestine…errr
Wait, there wasn’t any. The Romans occupied subjugated and ruled…a Jewish kingdom, which they called “ Palestine” to humiliate and humble the Jewish state and its royal and priestly ruling families