Israeli media have lashed out at BBC for airing a program on Jesus in which it claimed he was a Palestinian.
The BBC World Service radio program Heart and Soul aired a program on December 18 in which presenter Robert Beckford noted that artistic depictions of Jesus as blonde and European are historically inaccurate and referred to his national identity as a Palestinian.
An important message from a Palestinian Christian to all Christians and Muslims all around the world.
— Zahra Fatima (@FatiMa_QZi8) December 25, 2020
"If you are a Christian, do not celebrate #MerryXmas unless you pay heed to what is happening in Palestine...
Birth place of Jesus Christ, & the origin of Christianity". pic.twitter.com/VJjs8KgtsR
Israeli daily Jerusalem Post on Monday cited The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) as disputing the inaccuracy of the national identity of Jesus.
According to CAMERA, the term "Palestinian," only came into use some 100 years after the crucifixion.
Jesus is a 20th Century Colonialist Term with no agreed upon definition?
It's not hard to spell *Judean Jew. Two Terms he would actually be familiar with. https://t.co/81I9iJeLUM— سيف النبطي (@SonOfJenin) December 25, 2020
References to Jesus as "Palestinian" were also made on the December 13th edition of BBC Radio Scotland’s Sunday Morning, without any explicit mention of Jesus' Jewish identity, according to CAMERA.
The organisation said it intends to ask the BBC for clarification with a formal request.
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