Posted on 12/28/2020 12:22:55 PM PST by SJackson
References to Jesus as "Palestinian" were also made on the December 13th edition of BBC Radio Scotland’s ‘Sunday Morning,’ without any explicit mention of Jesus' Jewish identity.
The BBC World Service radio program Heart and Soul aired a program titled "Black Jesus" on December 18, in which presenter Robert Beckford claimed that Jesus was a "Palestinian," despite the term only coming into use some 100 years after the crucifixion.
Throughout the program, Beckford noted accurately that artistic depictions of Jesus as blonde and European are historically inaccurate. But when discussing his national identity, the presenter referred to Jesus numerous times as a "first-century Palestinian Jew," whereby the term "Palestinian" only came into common use 100 years after his death following the Bar Kokhba Revolt against the Roman Empire.
The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) highlighted the inaccuracy in a report earlier this year criticizing The New York Times, noting that, “during the time of Jesus, Bethlehem and Jerusalem were in what was commonly called Judea and Nazareth [which were] in what was commonly called the Galilee. The land where Jesus lived did not take on the name Palestine until the second century, well after his death. Thus, the notion of “first-century Palestine”… is totally fictional.
"In 132 CE, approximately 100 years after the crucifixion of Jesus, the Jews fought against Roman rule for a second time in what is known as the Bar Kokhba Revolt," the report continued. "After the Romans defeated the rebellious Jews in 135, they renamed the land of the Jews Palestina to punish the Jews and to make an example of them to other peoples considering rebellion. The Romans took away the Jewish name, Judea, and replaced it with the name of an ancient enemy the Jews despised. The Philistines were an extinct Aegean people whom the Jews had historically loathed as uncultured and barbaric.”
References to Jesus as "Palestinian" were also made on the December 13th edition of BBC Radio Scotland’s Sunday Morning, without any explicit mention of Jesus' Jewish identity, according to CAMERA. The organization said it intends to ask the BBC to clarify the historical inaccuracies with a formal request.
Indication of mooslims further infiltration into the UK.
Pandering to the “Palestinians” who really are not like GM buying Ford and naming all their cars Buick - they’re still Ford.
It is my understanding there were Palestinian Arabs and Palestinian Jews, but never any just Palestinians until Yassar Arafat came up with the designation. The people now claiming to be Palestinian are in face, Jordanian.
And Jesus was a Jew.
Nurse Who writers writing news as well?
Telling muslims Jesus was Jewish would have sent them on a murderous rampage..They were trying to save the country by hiding His Jewish heritage....Sarcasm......
Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Palestinians
Fact, not face. Proofreading is not my strong suit.
Nope.
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If BBC says so it must be, history shouldn't be allowed to interfere. The article notes the term appeared a century later, around 130-135ad when the Roman Provence Syria Palestina, however there are references to a term similar to Palestina as early as 800bc referring to the area between Syria and Egypt.
Gasp, when even the BBC succumbs to the depths of American media, we know that we no longer have need to listen to any of them. Welcome to the CNN sewer, BBC. It was nice knowin’ you.
“Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews” (John 4:22).
This was one of Yasser Arafat’s lies
That Jesus was a Palestinian freedom fighter against the Jews
I have been to a multitude of varying Christian services in my years and I have yet to observe a depiction of a “blonde Jesus”.
Partial background of the author of this fine “piece”...explains it all.
I’m sure he celebrates kwanzaa also.
Robert Beckford is a British academic theologian and currently Professor of Black Theology at The Queen’s Foundation, whose documentaries for both the BBC and Channel 4 have caused debate among the Christian and British religious community.
There were no Palestinians, ever. It is a bastardized title taken from the name, “Philistine” by Yassar Arafat and his Catholic wife.
Not necessarily Sarcasm. After all if the geographical region was referred to as Palestine at the time, as the Brits did last century and the Turks before them, and Jesus, one of the residents was Jewish, then the current palestinian arab fiction that Jews never lived there collapses.
WHO CARES what color Jesus was in human form or exactly where he lived?????
People splitting hairs with this horse shit are missing the whole point of his time here!
Strange, I thought that area was known as “Palestine” until right after WWII when it was divvied up.
“Indication of mooslims further infiltration into the UK.”
In another twist, we do know Jews killed Jesus.
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