Israel’s Official Account: Jesus Was Jewish, Not a Palestinian

The State of Israel’s official Twitter account issued a tweet on June 3 sarcastically pointing out that Jesus Christ was Jewish, not Palestinian.

The exchange began with a tweet from the @TheTweetOfGod satirical account tweeting out a picture of Jesus with the words, “Privilege doesn’t get much whiter than making a Roman-era Palestinian look like this.”

Privilege doesn't get much whiter than making a Roman-era Palestinian look like this. pic.twitter.com/i05NG7FlVm

— God (Not a Parody, Actually God) (@TheTweetOfGod) June 3, 2020

Israel’s official account, which the Israeli Foreign Ministry runs, tweeted in response, “God: Jesus was a Palestinian. Jesus: Hey Dad, remember when you gave that speech about Jewish values at my Bar Mitzvah?”

God: Jesus was a Palestinian.

Jesus: Hey Dad, remember when you gave that speech about Jewish values at my Bar Mitzvah?

— Israel ישראל (@Israel) June 3, 2020

The satirical God account responded, “TheTweetOfGod: Jesus wasn’t actually fair-skinned. Israel’s Twitter account: Hey TheTweetOfGod, I am the official Twitter account of the State of Israel and I am going to officially respond to you for the world to see and also Palestinians suck.”

https://twitter.com/TheTweetOfGod/status/1268239559768207361?s=20

Pro-Israel activist Aboud Dandachi, a Syrian refugee who lives in Canada, tweeted, “No Israeli official EVER said that Palestinians suck. Israel has been providing corona aid to Gaza when no one else would. Palestinians get treated at Israeli hospitals. The Palestinians should be thanking their Allah to have neighbors like the Israelis.”

https://twitter.com/abouddandachi/status/1268280809015959560?s=20

The Mossad satirical account tweeted, “Privilege doesn’t get much whiter than making @TheTweetOfGod’s depiction look like this,” referencing the fact that the satirical God account’s Twitter profile picture is a white man.

Privilege doesn't get much whiter than making @TheTweetOfGod's depiction look like this. pic.twitter.com/1lYryQpi6n

— The Mossad: The Spies Who Loved You (@TheMossadIL) June 3, 2020

In April 2019, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) retweeted a tweet stating that Jesus was a Palestinian. Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action Agenda at the Simon Wiesenthal Center Rabbi Abraham Cooper told the Journal at the time that such a claim is a “grotesque insult to Jesus born in the land of Israel and to Christianity,” adding that “Palestine was a name made up by Romans after they crucified thousands, destroyed the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and exiled the People of Israel from their homeland.”