Jesus Was NOT a “Palestinian”

The following was posted on Facebook and was shared with me. With the current cultural situation, I thought this would be excellent to share with my readers.

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M.A. Rothman

Facebook 7/6/25 

There’s a lot of stupid people out there—we all know that—and while it’s damn near impossible to debunk everything, one thing I keep seeing pop up lately is this ridiculous claim that 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧.

People saying, “Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Palestine. It was Palestine then, and it’s still Palestine now.”

Not sure where these folks are getting that nonsense from—𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘵’𝘴 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯.

It was 𝐍𝐎𝐓 called Palestine at the time of Jesus’ birth. He was born in Roman-occupied 𝐉𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐚. The name “Palestine” didn’t even exist during his lifetime.

That’s what you call 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠—slapping a modern term or identity onto a historical figure who lived long before that identity was even a thing.

The term “Palestine” didn’t come around until the 1900s. The province of Syria-Palestina didn’t show up until 135 AD, after the Bar Kokhba revolt—𝐚 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬. And the Arab national identity of “Palestinian”? That didn’t take shape until the 20th century, especially around 1948—and really took hold in 1964 with Yasser Arafat, who was known as the father of the Palestinian movement.

The irony with that is that Yasser Arafat was Egyptian. Anyway, I digress.

So why are we calling Jesus Palestinian when that 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟐,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬?

It’s pure historical distortion. But hey, pro-Palestinians love rewriting history when it fits their narrative.

And don’t worry, we’ve also got the brainiacs chiming in like, “Being Palestinian doesn’t mean you follow a specific religion!”

𝐖𝐨𝐰, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐄𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐢𝐧. No one thought “Palestinian” was a religion. We get it—it’s a national identity. The point is: 𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬’ 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞, so trying to slap it onto him now is just lazy revisionism.

It’s like calling people in California “Mexican” today because the land used to be part of Mexico. That’s not how this works. We call people what they are based on the time and place they were born.

Jesus was born in 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐡𝐞𝐦, in Roman-occupied 𝐉𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐚—not Palestine.

If you and I die tomorrow, and 2,000 years later someone invents a new nation, they can’t retroactively claim us as part of it. That’s not how time or facts work.

So if you’re dead set on giving Jesus a national identity, here it is: 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐉𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐧.

Why people feel the need to muddy this up with nonsense is beyond me. But I guess when your narrative is paper-thin, rewriting history starts to sound like a good idea.

𝐈 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐮𝐩.

Another Agglomeration

The Real History of Israel and Palestine – Pt. 1 Then read Part 2.

A very good, thought-provoking article about “Enjoying the Anger of Jesus.”

Does the Bible Encourage Masters to Beat Their Slaves? NOPE!

No, Jesus would NOT have us vote for Kamala Harris or the Demonkratic party.  “Evangelicals for Harris” is also very, very pro-abortion, which is something NO Christian should be.

Who Were the Emergent Church Leaders? Where Are They Now? Excellent review of the movers and shakers of the Emergent movement and how they still cause damage in the Church.

Beth Moore’s latest study: critique and review. As bad of a teacher as always.

I don’t remember ever hearing of Joni Lamb before, but she definitely needs to be warned against.

Heresy by the Pope! He essentially says all religions lead to the same God.  A wee bit of humor has the Pope debating with Jesus.

Blasphemy in the Church by those who condone and support the LGBTQ+ agenda. Satan is very active turning this nation even more and more into Sodom and Gomorrah.

Robert Morris is indeed a false teacher.

Heidi Baker, Billy Burke, etc, false teachers.

The Gospel Coalition loves to twist Scripture for their ideology.

I just had to share this false teacher, spawn of satan, so you can see what is out there and what  we real Christians have to work against. The article doesn’t give her name or “church,” for which I am glad.

Closing with this nonsense by Greg Locke:

Israel vs “Palestine”

Yes, this is sort of an unusual post for this blog but the history of Christianity is part of the history of Israel in the New Testament. Therefore, we should have an answer for those who decry Israel today as “colonizers” who need to be eradicated. I believe God still has a special place in history for Israel. I do NOT believe in the “replacement” theory or that God no longer cares about Israel. For this reason I want to share accurate information about Israel and the claims of the so-called “Palestinians. (I have read several books with essentially the same information, so this is not new to me.)

First is this excellent article, Islam & “Palestine” vs Israel/Jews, from Lighthouse Trails Research.

Some more excellent historical information can be found here at American Thinker.

Lastly, this outstanding Youtube video from a couple years ago is well worth the 20+ minutes of educating yourself.

A 2022 commenter (@ellenlevenson7831)to the youtube added a wee bit more history:

In 1858 the Ottoman Empire, which owned all the land in what was then known as Palestine (encompassing both Israel and Jordan), amended its land laws to prohibit the ownership and inheritance of land in Palestine by Arabs. Jews bought the land from Turkish elite, who promptly registered the land in their own names when Arabs failed to claim rights in 1858 (as the Empire knew they would). 

At the time the Ottoman Empire lost the land in 1918 and the British were appointed to manage Mandatory Palestine, no Arab owned land there. When the Mandate terminated and the land was divided, Israel was formed as a Jewish state and Jordan was formed from the Hashemite Kingdom of Trans-Jordan. No Arab owned land in Israel at that time, and no Arab accepted the land offered under the Mandate except for the Hashemites. Arabs had no land rights in Palestine after 1858 and accepted no land rights thereafter. Hence, Arab "Palestinians" did not own land in Palestine and did not own land in Israel that they can claim today.

 Although Arabs blame Jews for stealing their land, it was actually non-Arab Turks who undermined Arabs, not Jews. I learned this information from an Arab historian, who said the amendment of Turkish land laws inflamed existing Arab animosity toward Jews. Rather than admit that Turks excluded Arabs from land ownership in Palestine, about which they could nothing, they blame Jews in order to convince the world that they have rights to the land because they have no other way to obtain and dominate it (dominate being the salient word).

Every American (and citizens of other countries) should KNOW this information so as not to be deceived by the politicians and LEFTISTS.