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The Palestinian leadership is again referencing Jesus as a Palestinian. This time around, they’re insulting Christianity as well. “‘Christians, forget Jesus!’ ‘He is one of us’. Christian traditions are ‘nonsense,’” by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, August 11, 2025:
Now it’s Christianity’s turn to be mocked by the Palestinian Authority.
While it’s PA policy to insult, mock and misrepresent Jewish tradition and Jewish history in the land of Israel whenever possible, this week it was Christian traditions’ turn to be insulted and denied by the PA.
In the words of the official PA daily columnist, Christian traditions of the Holy Sepulcher and the Holy Grail are “nonsense,” because Jesus doesn’t belong to Christian tradition but belongs to the Palestinians. In his words:
Official PA daily columnist Hassan Hmeid: “During the Crusades, when kings, princes, robbers, and the poor marched, they came to – of course, it was a lie and nonsense – “save the Holy Sepulchre” [from the Muslims]. They wanted to search for the Holy Grail, and so on. They forgot that Jesus is our son, he is a Palestinian and one of us.
[Official PA TV, Capital of Capitals – Damascus, Aug. 10, 2025]
The Palestinian leaders, as part of their need to invent a Palestinian history, claim that Jesus was a Muslim and a Palestinian, even though neither Palestinians nor Muslims existed in the world in the time of Jesus. According to historical accounts and the Christian Bible, Jesus was a Jew from Judea….
It isn’t new for the Palestinians to depict Jesus as one of them, despite the nonsensical reasoning that this requires. Indeed, Jesus was born in Bethlehem, a city in Judea and Samaria, over 100 years before the Romans renamed Judea and Samaria “Palestine.” Palestinians are not an ancient people. They are Arabs who are identical culturally, linguistically, ethnically and religiously with the Arabs of Syria, Jordan and other parts of the Levant.
Since it’s undeniable that Jesus was from the House of David, Hamid Dabashi, Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, describes Jesus in the Qatari-owned publication Al Jazeera as “a Jewish Palestinian refugee child who grew up to become a towering revolutionary figure.”
The idea that Jesus was a Palestinian first came from Yasser Arafat, the infamous head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, which was created by the Arab League for the purpose of destroying Israel in 1964. Arafat was a jihadist, a propagandist trained by the KGB and bankrolled by the Soviet Union. It isn’t surprising that Jesus would be presented as the poor Palestinian, a Bedouin; this idea was a creation of Arafat that is accepted by far too many leftists today. Who could forget the late Pope Francis’ unveiling of a nativity scene of Jesus in a crib lined with a Palestinian keffiyeh last December.
The falsification of Jesus presented as a Palestinian Bedouin escalates into an abomination regarding the Holy Trinity. In 2012 senior Palestinian Authority leader Jibril Rajoub said: “The greatest Palestinian in history since Jesus is Yasser Arafat,” while an editorial in the same Palestinian Authority official daily once referred to Arafat, Jesus and Abbas as the Palestinian “holy Trinity”:
“Jesus is a Palestinian; the self-sacrificing Yasser Arafat is a Palestinian; Mahmoud Abbas, the messenger of peace on earth, is a Palestinian. How great is this nation of the holy Trinity!”
From a Jerusalem Post article:
The fabrication of a Palestinian Jesus has been a core part of the lexicon of Palestinian nationalism since at least the 1960s, as evidenced by news archive photos of a press conference held by PLO chief Yasser Arafat in Amman in June 1970. Over his shoulder hangs a poster of a gaunt, near-naked Palestinian nailed to a Star of David. The message is clear: the Palestinians are suffering at the hands of the Jews, just like Jesus did.
A Fox News article stated in 2020:
Tawfiq Tirawi, a senior Palestinian leader and Fatah Central Committee member, made the claim that Islamic tradition would mean Jesus is rewarded in heaven with 72 virgins…an argument many Christians would consider blasphemous….
“This is blessed Christmas, The birthday of our lord Jesus the Messiah, the first Palestinian and the first Shahid [Islamic Martyr],” Tirawi wrote on social media
According to The Algemeiner, “Rep. Ilhan Omar, Omar Suleiman, and Linda Sarsour have advanced this ahistorical narrative.”
Palestinian propaganda, which has fit well into the DEI Marxist narrative, plays the card that Jesus was not a blue-eyed blonde as depicted by many artists in the West, which is likely true, and then claims that he was instead a Palestinian. An Algemeiner article by Hen Mazzig notes that in reality, “Jesus was a Mizrahi Jew,” Mizrahi Jews are “the largest ethnic group of Jews in Israel,” and “share the same skin tone, heritage, and birthplace as Jesus. Yet we would never be accepted as Palestinian or identify ourselves as such.”
Mazzig further notes that “the goal of the argument that ‘Jesus was a Palestinian from Nazareth’ is not only to erase Jewish ties to the land of Israel, but also to depict all Jews as ‘white,’ and in consequence, less sympathetic to intersectional social justice movements.” Mizrahis make up about 40% to 45% of the country’s total population; Ashkenazis make up 32%
It is no coincidence that ongoing insults to Christians, Jews and, in fact, to Judeo-Christian tradition are perpetuated by exponents of the leftist-Islamic alliance. And the Palestinian “resistance” is a core Islamic issue, as stated repeatedly by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. See also HERE.
Palestinians seek a one-state solution, that is, the total destruction of Israel, and also declare Jesus as a Palestinian, which constitutes grand theft of what belongs to both Jews and Christians.
