BBC: Jesus was 'Palestinian,' despite term's use century after crucifixion

JERUSALEM POST ^ | ECEMBER 28, 2020

[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.

[Leep]

This is a endless argument..Jesus as others have said was a jew...if his skin was dark it was bronzish..from his olive colored skin being in the desert sun.

[ml/nj]

It is my understanding there were Palestinian Arabs and Palestinian Jews, but never any just Palestinians until Yassar Arafat came up with the designation.

Actually, before Arafat, the "Palestinians" were the Jews. Go to any volume of The New York Times Index (Libraries all used to have these in their reference sections.) from before that Balfour Declaration and look up Palestinian. Under that heading you will find just two words: See Jews.

ML/NJ

[Honorary Serb]

Jesus was, of course, a Galilean Jew.

He probably had olive skin. like most Levantine people, and as portrayed in Orthodox icons (including icons written by St. Luke, who knew Him and His Mother)!!

Olive-skinned Levantines are generally classified as Caucasian. They are in no way “black”, or “people of color”!! PHOOEY!!!!

[Eleutheria5]

They talkum limey dialect. Mustum speakum true.

[HKMk23]

Yes. You may have read of the Philistine people; a long-time adversary of Israel, and a general thorn-in-the-flesh of the entire region. Though not provably blood descendants, today’s “Palestinians” are called — in their own tongue — Filistini.

[Eleutheria5]

His skin was peeled back from the corona is all that means. As to the color of the rest of him, that’s irrelevant.

[Eleutheria5]

Etymologically, it comes from “palash,” which means to invade.

[SaveFerris]

[In another twist, we do know Jews killed Jesus.]

The Sanhedrin and most of the Pharisees, yes. There were certainly many in the streets, who a week after chanting "Hosanna!" were then calling for His Crucifixion, only a week later.

But, we ALL killed Jesus (as I'm fond of saying). He was Crucified for OUR sins; for OUR transgression.

Praise the God of Heaven that His Only Begotten Son was Crucified for OUR sins. We rejoice in His Gift of Salvation.

(for the thread)

Isaiah 53:6 - New King James Version

6 ALL WE like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of US ALL.

That's why David White (in "End of the Harvest") said He gets all of the credit (Jesus, for His Sacrifice and our Salvation) and we get none of it. Other than we choose to believe it and accept it.

(ping to the list for a reference to "End of the Harvest" - a little slow at first but a great Christian movie.

I love the opening scenes. Really grabs your attention.



https://christianfilms.com/collections/end-times/products/end-of-the-harvest-movie-dvd

I reviewed the movie many years ago....

[MNDude]

https://images.app.goo.gl/izPdVsiy6T6EqF6w5

Dont know how to post images, but you’ll get the point.

[T.B. Yoits]

The BBC. For some it’s a daily IQ test. For others it’s a daily replenishment of idiocy.

[HKMk23]

Palestinian > Filistini > Philistine

Jesus is a blood Israeli, an observant Jew, pedigreed from Abraham, and the Once-and-Forever True King out of the House and Line of David. One simply does NOT get mor thoroughly Israelite Jewish than Jesus who is epitome and epicenter of both faith and ethnicity.

[teeman8r]

do they mean the philistines?

[mjp]

California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada will soon be called Mexico

[SaveFerris]

[The Jerusalem Post, Jewish owned, originated as the Palestine Post.]

Dave Hunt noted that as well. I think in “Israel, Islam and Armageddon”.

Brother Dave Hunt also noted that the British(?) had a “Palestinian Brigade” made up of Jewish volunteers (WW II I believe was what Dave was referencing).

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Israel, Islam and Armageddon - Dave Hunt & Tom McMahon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbZ9_Wqhiiw

[HKMk23]

And the Philistine were certainly invaders. Great DNA info from remains at a burial site in Ashkelon has cracked the dam on Philistine origins.

“For more than a century, we have debated the question of where the Philistines came from,” writes archaeologist Eric Cline in an email from his excavation at the Canaanite site of Tel Kabri (Cline was not involved in the current research.) “Now we have the answer: Southern Europe, and probably more specifically mainland Greece, Crete, or Sardinia. This fits with what had seemed the most likely answer previously, especially judging from [the archaeological remains], and so this seems a logical finding.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/culture/2019/07/ancient-dna-reveal-philistine-origins

[SaveFerris]

One more ping to the list - full movie here - watch it while it’s still there (same for Israel, Islam and Armageddon - link above).

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End of the Harvest - Christiano Film Group

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVQuaaUfhDE

Redcitizen, here’s a couple more movies for ya.

[SaveFerris]

One more ping to the list - full movie here - watch it while it’s still there (same for Israel, Islam and Armageddon - link above).

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End of the Harvest - Christiano Film Group

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVQuaaUfhDE

Redcitizen, here’s a couple more movies for ya.

[SaveFerris]

oops TWO more pings - darn mouse

[Jan_Sobieski]

John Lennon said Jesus was an “a garlic eating, stinking, little yellow greasy fascist bastard catholic Spaniard”

[SaveFerris]

Well, for John’s own sake, I would hope that he would have come to faith before he died.

If he did, I certainly never heard about it.

(that’s certainly not meant to excuse Mark David Chapman).