Posted on 12/28/2020 7:06:06 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
A false witness will not go unpunished; He who testifies lies will not escape. Proverbs 19:5
he revisionist narrative making the absurd contention that Jesus was a Palestinian, is becoming even more prevalent and is being weaponized against both Israel and christianity.
BBC: JESUS AS A PALESTINIAN MAN OF COLOR The United Kingdom branch of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) called out the BBC radio program Heart and Soul broadcast on December 18th titled Black Jesus.
“The identity and color of Jesus – and why it matters – has taken on a new significance in this year of protest and change,” the presenter, Robert Beckford, described as “one of the UK’s prominent black theologians”, stated. “Seeing Jesus as a darker-skinned Palestinian rather than blonde European is both historically accurate and theologically important, but it’s not a new idea.”
“Despite the fact it’s more realistic as a first-century Palestinian Jew that Jesus was dark-skinned, somehow the white Jesus has become the most popular and accepted image,” Beckford stated early in the broadcast, adding later, “The color of Jesus matters, both literally and symbolically. A first-century Palestinian Jew had color…”
THE CLAIM IS WRONG IN EVER RESPECT It should be noted that Beckford’s statement displays a total lack of familiarity with actual “Palestinians”, more accurately described as Israeli Arabs, who are descended from immigrants from the Arabian peninsula and are not people of color.
Beckford went on to describe Israel, in fact, the entire region, in inappropriate political and geographic terms in the context of Jesus’s flight to Egypt.
“…in reality, Jesus was a refugee whose family had to flee North Africa due to persecution. He was one of the oppressed by the colonizers of his day.”
The statement is incredibly anachronistic as there has never existed a political entity called Palestine and at the time Jesus lived, Bethlehem where he was born and Nazareth where he lived were parts of Israel. As such, both of Jesus’ earthly parents were Jewish.
This perception of Jesus is certainly not an accurate depiction of history or even a religious statement. It is, in fact, a reiteration of a false narrative adopted by the Palestinian Authority. It is believed that the credo was an invention of Yasser Arafat’s adviser Hanan Ashrawi, a Christian, who said in an interview to the Washington Jewish Week on February 22, 2001, that “Jesus was a Palestinian.”
OFFICIAL PLO PLATFORM This became the official PLO platform as evidenced by their frequent reference to Jesus as “the first Palestinian martyr” and whose annual Christmas statement reads, “Every Christmas, Palestine celebrates the birth of one of its own: Jesus.”
At a Christmas ceremony last year, Dr. Mohammad Shtayyeh, the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, referred to Jesus as “a Palestinian guerrilla fighter”.
LEFT-WING DEMOCRAT REVISIONISTS This narrative was adopted by left-wing activist Linda Sarsour and several times in the New York Times.
This egregious perversion of history and religion is becoming mainstream in the Democratic party.Last year, Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Muslim, retweeted the NYT op-ed. Raphael Warnock, senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church and a Democratic candidate for the US Senate, referred to Jesus in one of his sermons as “a Palestinian prophet.”
James Sinkinson, president of Facts and Logic About the Middle East (FLAME), wrote an article, referring to the narrative as “the Big Lie.” Sinkinson noted three reasons for perpetuating the Big Lie:
Establish a Palestinian people when there was none. Place Palestinian Arabs in the Holy Land long before Arabs actually arrived there. Characterize Jews as religious adherents, not a people.
You can bleat on about “persons of color” all you want, but people in Africa still live in mud huts and own slaves.
We know Jesus was not an especially noticeable, ‘handsome’ man. Aside from that, we have no other physical description.
All of the paintings were in a painter’s mind’s eye. We surely have no photographs.
No such place as Palestine during Jesus’ time; or after.
And remember when Hitlery claimed Mary and Joseph were homeless. The irony is they were in Bethlehem for a tax census ordered by a tyrannical power.
King David was not a “dark skinned POC”...he had RED HAIR!
I watched a bunch of Christian movie over the holiday and not one had a “blonde haired” Jesus.
Reminds me of thepeople who claim ancinet Egyptians were black. When every written despriction denies this, along with the art work of the time.
Everyone is a person of color .
Was Jesus ‘dark skinned’? Most likely. Palestinian? Only insofar as the Romans called the Holy Land ‘Palestine’, as an insult to the Israelites. As a physical descendent of King David, through His mother, Miriam, he was most likely, ‘dark skinned’ or ‘swarthy’. Elsewhere, the Beebe is FOS, as usual.
Nearly every depiction of Jesus I have seen is of a man with brown hair.
For every depiction of a blonde Jesus, I have seen at least 150 “black Jesus”’s.
Check out the images from the book Ecce Homo (Behold the man). In depictions from every culture, Jesus’ image appears to be not that dissimilar from the population. From a theological perspective that should tell us something.
Jesus had no color. The shade of his skin is not at all significant. It doesn’t matter how popular images show him.
The obsession with skin shade matters ONLY to insane leftists, who hate you for having light skin.
So what are they saying? That Jesus was a palestinian and opposed Israel?
We already know the left is way past insane, but they keep proving it to us over and over again.
Jesus is a not of this world but born here physically as a means of entering our life “as us”
His ethnicity is irrelevant in the big picture
It helps with the story and Hageesim
But Jewish could have been Pali or Roman ...it wouldn’t have mattered except logistics ...the Romans would have killed him sooner had he been raised in Rome I’d wager
Correct. IIRC, so-called “Palestinians” are descended from Jordanians and Egyptians.
A copy of Warner E. Sallman’s “Head of Christ” painting hung in her home, depicting a gentle Jesus with blue eyes turned heavenward and dark blond hair cascading over his shoulders in waves.
The painting, which has been reproduced a billion times, came to define what the central figure of Christianity looked like for generations of Christians in the United States — and beyond.
WTF is "dark blond" hair. The painting at issue shows him with dark BROWN hair with light shining on it.
Well...maybe we do, sort of..
I'm pinging Swordmaker, who knows more about the Shroud than anyone. I'd be interested in any research that may have been conducted on the topic in this thread vis-á-vis The Shroud.
We know whether by clothing or appearance Jesus looked Jewish to the Samaritan woman at the well who didn’t know him previously. Beyond that so called experts say the best guess is he was likely olive skinned. The prophet Isaiah of course described the servant as
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
And beyond that if one thinks the shroud of Turin is genuine you have an image to go on I suppose.
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