'Jesus was a Palestinian,' claims U.S. history text

World Net Daily ^ | October 03, 2008 | Bob Unruh

[Sopater]

A new study reveals that if Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wanted to criticize the nation of Israel before the United Nations, he could use American public school textbooks to do so.

"It is shocking to find the kind of misinformation we discovered in American textbooks and supplemental materials being used by schools in every state in the country," said Dr. Gary Tobin, president of the Institute for Jewish & Community Research and a co-author of the study.

"Elected officials at every level should investigate how these offensive passages are creeping into our textbooks. Presenting false information in the classroom undermines the very foundation of the American educational system," he said.

Tobin teamed with insititute research associate Dennis Ybarra for the study, titled, "The Trouble with Textbooks: Distorting History and Religion." The five-year effort, which looked at 28 prominent history, geography and social studies textbooks, reveals American public school students are being loaded up with indoctrination about Christianity, Judaism, Islam and the Middle East, to the cost of Christianity and Judaism and the benefit of Islam.

The study also supports other assessments of U.S. texts on which WND has reported.

[mountainlion]

Palestine was a name given to the area by a Cesar of Rome to the area to insult Israel by naming the area after the their enemies the Philistines. This happened after the Maccabees revolt long after Christ if memory serves me right.

[Polybius]

Lafayette was French.

Non sequitur.

During the time of Jesus, the region was named "Judea". After the defeat of the First Jewish Revolt and the and the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD, the Roman commemorated the victory by a series of coins proclaiming "Judea Capta" ("Judaea conquered").

Similar "Capta" coins were issued to commemorate Roman victories in other regions, for example, Germania.

It was not until after the Bar Kokhba Revolt of 132–135 AD that the Romans, tiring of the repeated Jewish revolts, wiped the name of Judea off their maps and renamed the region "Syria Palaestina". At the same time, the Jews were expelled from Jerusalem and Jerusalem was renamed "Aelia Capitolina".

There was no "Palestine" during the time of Jesus. The term "Syria Palaestina" did not exist until a century later.

To say that "Jesus was a Palestinian" is the same as saying that "Lafayette was a citizen of the European Union".

[Sopater]

"Χριστός", transliterated as "Christos" and translated as "Christ" literally means "anointed". Therefore, the cup could simply be saying something like anointed magician. My Greeks not good, but my point is that the word "Christos" or "CHRSTOU" doesn't necessarily always mean Jesus Christ.

[Polybius]

Palestine was a name given to the area by a Cesar of Rome to the area to insult Israel by naming the area after the their enemies the Philistines. This happened after the Maccabees revolt long after Christ if memory serves me right.

History Police:

The Maccabean Revolt was a revolt against the Seleucid Empire that occurred in 175 BC during the reign of Antiochus Epiphanes. The revolt led to Jewish independence and the Hasmonean Kingdom.

The Romans captured Jerusalem in 63 BC and Judaea then became a protectorate of Rome but was allowed to retain a king.

The named change referring to Palestine occurred after the Bar Kochba Revolt. (See Post 22)

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Thank you, Panther.

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[weegee]

The level of outrageousness grew: "Christianity was started by a young Palestinian named Jesus," claims "The World," by Scott Foresman.

Wait. Public schools cannot mention Jesus in umpteen other contexts. His name may not be spoken on public property to hear the ACLU tell it. So how can this book be "kosher" with the ACLU stance on "Church and State"? To hear Christopher Hitchens tell it, Jesus never even existed.

Here's a link on the textbook:

http://www.sfsocialstudies.com/g6/index.html

And here's a lesson on Palestine:

http://sf.factmonster.com/ce6/world/A0837349.html

Palestine (păl'ustīn) [key], historic region on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, at various times comprising parts of modern Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, and Egypt; also known as the Holy Land. The name is derived from a word meaning “land of the Philistines.” This article discusses mainly the geography and the history of Palestine until the United Nations took up the Palestine problem in 1947; for the economy and later history, see Israel, Jordan, and West Bank.

In the Bible, Palestine is called Canaan before the invasion of Joshua; the usual Hebrew name is Eretz Israel [land of Israel]. Palestine is the Holy Land of Jews, having been promised to them by God; of Christians because it was the scene of Jesus' life; and of Muslims because they consider Islam to be the heir of Judaism and Christianity and because Jerusalem is the site, according to Muslim tradition, of Muhammad's ascent to heaven. The Holy Land derives its special character from being a place of pilgrimage. Shrines, shared in common by several religions, cluster most numerously in and about Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Hebron.

And Israel:

http://sf.factmonster.com/ce6/world/A0825647.html

Israel (iz'rēul) [key], officially State of Israel, republic (2005 est. pop. 6,277,000, including Israelis in occupied Arab territories), 7,992 sq mi (20,700 sq km), SW Asia, on the Mediterranean Sea. (The area figure used above does not include the Golan Heights or the West Bank, which are occupied by Israel.) It is bordered by Lebanon in the north, Syria and Jordan in the east, the Mediterranean Sea on the west, Egypt on the southwest, and the Gulf of Aqaba (an arm of the Red Sea) on the south. The capital and largest city of Israel is Jerusalem. This article deals primarily with the events in Israel from 1948 to the present. For the earlier history of the region, see Palestine.

[tom h]

"Jesus was a Palestinian,' claims U.S. history text"

Technically, the book is right. But the motives of the book's publisher are clearly suspect, and have a political overtone.

Some facts here:

First, "Palestine" to the best of my knowledge derives from the term "Philistines" which we all know were a brutish lout of people living along the coast of what is modern-day Israel and Gaza. Jesus was not a Philistine. Neither are today's Palestinians proven to be descended from Philistines.

Second, historical Palestine extends from Lebanon and Syria to Egypt and the Sinai, and even into modern-day Jordan. So, technically speaking, anyone living in these areas could be considered Palestinian.

Third, today's Palestinians weren't even called Palestinians UNTIL they fled Israel proper prior to the 1948 war. The name was absconded in an attempt to add legitimacy to the refugees. No one in all Araby gave a hoot about them until they because useful fodder and political pawns, and they had to give them a name. The Jews called themselves Israelis, so the world named the refugees Palestinians.

Fourth, Jesus was Jew, a Hebrew, and clearly not a Gentile, which is the inference of the text.

So why do I provide all this information? To show that the textbook in question is one more example of an arrogant leftist trying to use half-truths to indoctrinate our children. Even if means implying that Jesus was a Palestinian, meaning that "What Would Jesus Do?" means Jesus would side with today's Palestinians instead of today's Israelis.

Sheesh. Repeat after me until you're numb: home school or Christian school, home school or Christian school, home school or Christian school, home school or Christian school ...

Footnote: I've always thought it appropriate that today's Palestinians, loved by so many on the political left, claim descent from the very people whose name (Philistine) has such a pejorative connotation -- someone who is without culture, without class, base and loathsome. Sounds just like ... well ... just like the former leader of the Palestinians, Yassir Arafat!

[weegee]

I've just posted links to the textbook itself. They admit that Palestine comes from Philistine. They are revising the historical record to call Jesus a Palestinian.

[forkinsocket]

Ha are Palestinians writing their books? “Jesus was Palestinian” is a fairly popular Palestinian remark.

[tom h]

"I think your reading too much into it. Palestine is what the Romans called the region, Jesus was someone who resided in that region, ergo he is a Palestinian. It true and it is accurate, but still you find it suspect? Silly."

Except when you find out the author/editor/reviewer of the text has a name like "Ayad Al-Qazzaz." And that other parts of the text are filled with anti-Israeli tripe. Then you realize that it's not silly but a quite serious attempt at Muslim indoctrination of our schools.

The only reason a 21st century textbook would call Jesus a Palestinian, and not a Jew, is for purposes of indoctrination. Do you have German background? If so, it would technically be correct to call you a Hun, but any reasonable person would wonder why I did it -- humor or insult, but not without motive. Same as if I called an Asian a Mongol, or a Russian a Cossack.

As my Dad used to tell me, when something doesn't make sense, look to motive.

Suggest you read the source article.

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Islam: the religion of Noah, Abraham, Jesus and Mohammed

[Convert from ECUSA]

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Jesus was a “palestinian”...my wide aunt fanny! Jesus was born Jewish and lived as an observant Jew. Mary and Joseph were Jewish, not “palestinian” ancestors of Abbas or Arafat! The Holy Book Jesus learned from as a boy was the Torah at the synagogue, not the koran at the mosque!

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[BGHater]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/5326614.stm

Did he still go to Japan?

The Grave of Christ has become an international tourist attraction

[maryz]

"The World," by Scott Foresman.

Not sure why you edited from the original "published by Scott Foresman," but it does make it unclear that Scott Foresman is an educational publisher, not an individual (it used to be written "Scott, Foresman & Co." years ago!).

Which brings up the problem of educational publishers: elementary and high school ("el-hi" in the trade) have to be "adopted" by state boards of education; some adopt one textbook per course, and some issue a list of approved texts. The publishers wouldn't be doing this if it didn't help them win state adoptions.

Into the 60s, at least some educational publishers issued two separate history books, under the same name and almost the same except for treatment of the Civil War, to win adoption in northern and southern states.

[metmom]

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[proudtobeanamerican1]

Talking to a very bright biblical scholar yesterday, I’m pretty sure he said Palestine is a relatively new title for a country.