As December approaches each year and the Christmas season draws near, a familiar coordinated campaign reappears across social media platforms: claims that “Jesus was Palestinian” and that he lived “under foreign occupation.”
This messaging is not accidental or organic. It is part of a recurring influence effort aimed at erasing Jewish history from the region and undermining the ancient Jewish connection to the Land of Israel.
The historical facts are clear and uncontested. Jesus Christ was born to a Jewish family, circumcised on the eighth day in accordance with Jewish law, lived as a Jew, observed the commandments of the Torah, and traced his lineage to Abraham and King David.
Even Christian tradition itself affirms this reality: for nearly 2,000 years, crosses worn by Christians worldwide have carried the inscription INRI — an abbreviation of the Latin phrase meaning “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.” Crucially, the name “Palestine” was imposed on the land by the Roman Empire roughly a century after Jesus’ death, as part of a punitive effort to sever Jewish identity from the area following Jewish revolts.