Outcry Against Casting an Israeli Jew to Play Mary in Netflix Film

Anti-Israel activists who falsely claim that Jesus was “Palestinian” are crying foul.

By: Rabbi Shraga Simmons – Aish; aish.com

To ensure authenticity in the new Netflix film “Mary,” director D.J. Caruso cast Israeli actors Noa Cohen and Ido Tako as Jesus’ Jewish parents.

Yet in the latest example of moral inversion, anti-Israel activists who falsely claim that Jesus was “Palestinian” are crying foul.

Revising History

Palestinian propogandists are determined to rewrite history and prove that the Jewish people have no right to their ancestral homeland. They claim that that Jesus – born as a Jew in the territory called Judea – is actually a “Palestinian, the son of Palestinians.”

Arab member of the Israeli Knesset, Sami Abou Shahadeh, promoted the myth, saying: “The entire world knows that Jesus is Palestinian.”

Their goal: craft an anti-Israel narrative in the media and in the minds of unsuspecting social justice activists.

This egregious form of cultural appropriation ignores the basic facts of history: The Holy Land was not called “Palestine” until more than a century after Jesus’ lifetime, and Islam itself only came into existence six centuries later. As such, Jesus could never have been “Palestinian.”

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