Why Did Palestinians Kill Jesus? |
It’s Christmas season again. Jesus was Palestinian, we are told—a slogan that appears on billboards, sometimes in the present tense as “Jesus is Palestinian,” but always demanding debate, outrage, and ritual moral posturing. With the same predictability as ugly holiday sweaters, a slogan descends, halo intact. Social media obliges. Comment threads bloom like poinsettias.
This is not accidental framing. The slogan circulates primarily in antisemitic discourse, where theological blame is no longer expressed in medieval terms but repackaged in the language of modern politics.
But let us take the slogan seriously. Not emotionally—intellectually. Let us do the unfashionable thing and follow it to its logical conclusion.
If Jesus was Palestinian, then so was Judas Iscariot. So were Mary and Joseph. Peter,........