BBC: ‘Seeing Jesus as a darker skinned Palestinian is both historically accurate and theologically important’

THE POLITICALLY CORRECT "PALESTINIAN" BLACK JESUS?: 

BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/12/bbc-seeing-jesus-as-a-darker-skinned-palestinian-is-both-historically-accurate-and-theologically-important;

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Presenting Jesus as a “Palestinian” has become a political weapon. This is why it is actually important that Jesus be presented as a “Palestinian,” particularly a “black Palestinian.” In this presentation, both Black Lives Matter (Marxist) and the Palestinian jihad are promoted as woke and therefore good. Beckford says this is particularly important “in this year of protest and change.”

The “Palestinian resistance,” presented to the world as peaceful, which it is not, should be recognized for what it is: an active jihadist war against Israel to obliterate it “from the River to the Sea.” There is no reason whatsoever that it should be associated with Jesus.

Jesus was of Middle-Eastern Jewish heritage. He was from the house of David and arrived in Bethlehem long before the 1995 Oslo Accords, when Bethlehem was assigned to the Palestinian Authority. This should be obvious. The Palestinians are historically Ottoman South Syrians, with no historical claim to the Holy Land.

In exploring some of the roots of how and where it became popularized to claim Jesus as a Palestinian, the Israeli monitoring agency Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) focused upon a Palestinian Authority TV interview in 2010, in which author Samih Ghanadreh from Nazareth was asked about his new book Christianity and its Connection to Islam. Ghanadeh states that he personally heard Yasser Arafat several times affirm that Jesus was the first Palestinian martyr, whereupon the host replies: “Jesus was a Palestinian, no one denies that.” PMW cited the regularity of this declaration by prominent Palestinians, including the Governor of Ramallah Leila Ghannam (“We all have the right to be proud that Jesus is a Palestinian”), Senior PA leader Jibril Rajoub (“The greatest Palestinian in history since Jesus is Yasser Arafat“), and an editorial in the PA official daily — Al-Hayat Al-Jadida — referred to the “holy Trinity” as being Arafat, Abbas and Jesus.

Abbas did his PhD in Holocaust denial, and Rahman Abdul Rauf al-Qudwa al-Husseini (a.k.a. Yasser Arafat) learned under the tutelage of his revered uncle, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini, who worked with Hitler and Adolf Eichmann to slaughter six million Jews.

Palestinian propaganda has become rooted in the modern-day Church via many outreach programs, which has unfortunately lead to a new antisemitism, tailored especially for evangelicals. Bible researcher and author Jim Fletcher wrote:

Even LifeWay bookstores, the chain owned and operated by the Southern Baptist Convention, stock Sunday school maps depicting “Palestine in the Time of Jesus.” Never mind that neither Jesus nor the apostles knew anything of “Palestine,” but the regional name has compelled too many evangelicals (like Philip Yancey) to label Jesus a “Palestinian rabbi,” or the “Palestinian Jesus.” This false historical label was popularized by none other than Yasser Arafat, yet evangelical leaders are good with it.

Ed Stetzer, president of research at LifeWay — the resource arm of the Southern Baptist Convention — referred to Jesus as a “Palestinian Jew” in his article published in Christianity Today entitled“Monday is for Missiology: Some Thoughts on Contextualization.”

Robert O. Smith, program director for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America/Middle East and North Africa and co-moderator of the Palestine-Israel Ecumenical Forum of the World Council of Churches, blames the Israeli “occupation” on the dwindling number of Christians in the Bethlehem regions. Smith’s agenda is anti-Zionism, and thus he helps to advance the false narratives about Israel and about the Palestinians which some evangelical leaders have fallen into, in sync with the late Arafat and the PLO.

Jesus is presented not only as a Palestinian, but an oppressed Palestinian. In an obscene Easter message presented by Bethlehem Anglican Canon Rev. Naim Ateek, president of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, Ateek stated:

In this season of Lent, it seems to many of us that Jesus is on the cross again with thousands of crucified Palestinians around him. It only takes people of insight to see the hundreds of thousands of crosses throughout the land, Palestinian men, women, and children being crucified. Palestine has become one huge golgotha. The Israeli government crucifixion system is operating daily. Palestine has become the place of the skull.

Read more about this type of propaganda HERE.

“BBC WS radio promotes the claim that Jesus was ‘Palestinian,’” by Hadar Sela, CAMERA UK, December 23, 2020:

On December 18th the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Heart and Soul’ aired a 27-minute programme (since repeated several times) titled ‘Black Jesus’.

“The identity and colour of Jesus – and why it matters – has taken on a new significance in this year of protest and change. 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.” [emphasis added]

The notion of Jesus as ‘Palestinian’ is repeated during the programme itself by its presenter Robert Beckford.

01:16: “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.”

25:37: “The colour of Jesus matters, both literally and symbolically. A first-century Palestinian Jew had colour…”

Beckford is of course by no means the first to promote the notion of Jesus as a Palestinian, be that for political ends or as a result of lack of knowledge.

As CAMERA observed in 2008 when the New York Times claimed that Jesus ‘spoke in Palestine’:

“Bernard Lewis has noted that the word “Palestine” was sometimes used by Greek and Latin authors prior to 135 CE, though that appears to have normally been used as an adjective in apposition to “Syria” (Palaistine Syria or Syria Palestina) and in reference to the coastal area formerly inhabited by the Philistines but not “Judaea,” a region that “in Roman times was still officially and commonly known by that name,” as Lewis explained, or the region around Nazareth (“Palestine: On the History and Geography of a Name,” The International History Review, January 1, 1980).”

Earlier this year when the same paper referred to “first-century Palestine” CAMERA noted that:

“…during the time of Jesus, Bethlehem and Jerusalem were in what was commonly called Judea and Nazareth was 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 (Common Era or AD), 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 Kochba Revolt. 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.”

One must assume that it is not a lack of knowledge which prompted “one of the UK’s prominent black theologians” – as Beckford is described in the programme’s synopsis – to repeatedly promote the anachronistic notion that Jesus was “a first-century Palestinian Jew”. In fact, Beckford’s political/theological agenda is abundantly clear throughout the programme, which begins by describing Jesus as “a leading figure in the fight against racism and discrimination” and goes on (apparently missing out the word ‘to’) to claim that:

“…in reality Jesus was a refugee whose family had to flee North Africa due to persecution. He was one of the oppressed by the colonisers of his day.”…

 

Turkey: Last of the Byzantine Greeks facing extinction under Islamic hardliner Erdogan

BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/12/turkey-last-of-the-byzantine-greeks-facing-extinction-under-islamic-hardliner-erdogan;

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“The Greeks who represent the last vestiges of Christian Byzantium and the Roman Empire are heading towards their final extinction in Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey, with their numbers dwindling to a mere handful” under his Islamic hardline government.

Erdogan has made his ambitions clear: he wants a revived Ottoman Empire, and his actions have shown its determination. Yet still, talking about Islam remains an uncomfortable subject, as “neither the interviewees, perhaps understandably, or their interviewer, perhaps less understandably, touched to any great extent on the reasons so many Greeks have fled their ancestral homeland in recent years.”

The scourge of Turkey’s oppression against disbelievers is not felt only by its own Christian population, but increasingly regionally. Turkey is a growing threat to its rival Iran. America under Trump has observed the growing strength of Turkey’s commitment to Islam and the increasing threat it presents, and Trump therefore imposed sanctions. By contrast, the UK has just signed a multi-billion dollar trade deal that will serve to strengthen Turkey.

Meanwhile, the Western world promotes “diversity” at any cost, along with the “Islamophobia” subterfuge, and remains willfully blind as to the violent and expansionary foundations of Islam that have been clear for 1400 years.

“Last Byzantine Greeks Facing Extinction in Islamist-Led Turkey,” by Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, December 27, 2020:

The Greeks who represent the last vestiges of Christian Byzantium and the Roman Empire are heading towards their final extinction in Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey, with their numbers dwindling to a mere handful under his Islamist government.

What is now Turkey only began to be colonised in by the Turkic peoples in earnest from around 1071, after their Seljuk ancestors had arrived from Central Asia and vanquished the Greek-speaking Christian ruler Romanos IV Diogenes’s forces at the Battle of Manzikert.

The last vestiges of the Byzantine state where finally snuffed out with the brutal conquest of Constantinople, widely regarded as the greatest Christian city in the world, in 1453, or arguably with the fall of the citadel of Salmeniko Castle in modern-day Greece in 1461, following a brave but doomed resistance by its commander, Konstantinos Graitzas Palaiologos.

Despite widespread massacres and enslavement during the Turkish conquests, however, the region’s Greeks survived and were allowed something of a cultural life, albeit as second-class citizens, for centuries — not least because they served as cash cows for their Muslim rulers through the imposition of the jizya tax.

But Greeks in Istanbul, as Constantinople is now called, have now tumbled from 200,000 as recently as 1914 to, officially, a mere 3,000 — and a Times correspondent who visited the city to interview some of the survivors, known as the Rum, reports that the true figure may be nearer to just one thousand.

The Times correspondents’ interview subjects did not describe a life as hard as that endured by some of their forebears, such as in 1821, when many of the city’s Greeks were massacred and the Patriarch of Constantinople hanged from the gate of his cathedral, or in 1955, when the security services organised violent pogroms against them in what POLITICO dubbed a “Turkish Kristallnacht”.

“Everyone is gone now,” said Lazari Kozmaoglu, the 75-year-old owner of a rare pork butcher’s shop….

Neither the interviewees, perhaps understandably, or their interviewer, perhaps less understandably, touched to any great extent on the reasons so many Greeks have fled their ancestral homeland in recent years — and, indeed, decades — but the mood against such minorities in the once strongly secular but now Islamist-led republic is souring.

The authorities have made it increasingly difficult for Orthodox Christians to receive a religious education for example, and some historic churches and monasteries have been demolished or repurposed as mosques, sometimes with little warning….

 

Poll Observer Claims ‘Statistically Impossible’ Number of Military Ballots in Georgia County Went for Biden

BY MATT MARGOLIS

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/12/31/poll-observer-claims-statistically-impossible-number-of-military-ballots-in-georgia-county-went-for-biden-n1296053;

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A poll observer in Cobb County, Georgia said during a state Senate subcommittee meeting that she reviewed nearly 300 overseas military ballots and that as high as 90 percent of them went to Biden.

The poll observer, Debbie Fisher, says she reviewed ballots during the November 16 hand recount, and that “throughout the day, it made me sicker to see” that so many were going for Biden. According to Fisher, such a scenario was “statistically impossible” as that part of Cobb County is traditionally Republican.

But that’s not the only suspicious thing she witnessed.

“Of those ballots, as I walked through them piece by piece … I noticed something disturbing. They were inordinately perfect” in how they were filled out. “About 90 percent of them had no paper folds,” which means that they were not mailed in an envelope, as is required by law.

Fisher said she challenged the suspicious military ballots, requesting they be thrown out—but the election official in charge refused, and insisted the ballots were legitimate.

“People talk about obstruction, they talk about rudeness, they talk about whatever, but I can honestly tell you there was obstruction,” Fisher said of the behavior of the election workers.

But, a signature audit by the Georgia Bureau of Investigations and secretary of state investigators claim there were no widespread fraudulent absentee ballots.

According to a press release from Secretary of State Raffensperger’s office, “The absentee ballot envelopes for the audit were ‘pulled from 30 randomly selected boxes of the accepted ABM ballots and one box identified as accepted Electronic Ballot Delivery ABM ballots.’ Each of the boxes that held the ballots were previously ‘secured in boxes by the Cobb County Elections Department’ and were selected by a random number generator.”

Fisher doesn’t buy it. She says that election officials certified the signature audit “with no observers available to watch how they audited them.”

Matt Margolis is the author of Airborne: How The Liberal Media Weaponized The Coronavirus Against Donald Trumpand the bestselling book The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama. You can follow Matt on Twitter @MattMargolis

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Melissa Carone Refuses To Cooperate With Potential Defamation Lawsuit From Dominion Voting Systems

BY CULLEN PARADIS

SEE: https://www.ibtimes.com/melissa-carone-refuses-cooperate-potential-defamation-lawsuit-dominion-voting-systems-3112650;

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KEY POINTS

  • Melissa Carone is saying she'll disregard a letter from Dominion Voting Systems asking that her emails with the Trump campaign be preserved
  • Dominion Voting has made a variety of legal threats against those pushing debunked claims of election fraud
  • Dominion also says Carone drastically overstated her position in election efforts

Melissa Carone, Rudy Giuliani’s star witness during Michigan’s surreal election hearings, may be facing a lawsuit for her debunked allegations against Dominion Voting Systems. She’s proven an uncooperative target, disregarding orders from Dominion lawyers not to tamper with evidence. 

"I don’t know who the [expletive] they think they are," Carone told Detroit's Fox affiliate. "Sorry, excuse my language, but they are not telling me what to do."

Carone is referring to a letter from Dominion’s lawyers informing her that a defamation suit is “imminent” and asking that she preserve any communications between her and the Donald Trump campaign.

"I’ll be saving them," Carone said in her Fox interview. "I’ll be saving them on my personal computer and if I feel like deleting them I’ll delete them, but they’re not going to see any of my private conversations - I’ll tell you that. Or any personal conversations I’ve had with the Trump campaign, anybody, they’re not seeing it."

Melissa CaroneMelissa Carone, who was working for Dominion Voting Services, speaks in front of the Michigan House Oversight Committee in Lansing, Michigan, on Dec. 2, 2020. Photo: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images

Dominion also said that Carone overstated her role in the voting process, saying she was a temp worker brought on to “clean glass on machines and complete other menial tasks.” Carone maintains she was part of the IT team overseeing the machines.

"My job description was in IT support," Carone said. "I don’t know what they mean when they say ‘cleaning glass’. I never cleaned glass… I guess it’s just to be degrading.” 

It’s the latest move in Dominion’s efforts to clamp down on the disproven accusations against the integrity of their election machines. A statement to Fox from its legal counsel says Carone won’t be the only one that might face lawsuits.

“Our immediate focus is on Sidney Powell, who has been one of the most egregious and prolific purveyors of defamatory falsehoods,” said the statement. “Moving forward, we will certainly be taking a close look at others who have participated directly in the defamatory campaign - as well as those who have recklessly provided a platform for these discredited allegations.”

 
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