Christmas message of hate spoils the annual celebration

January 2, 2024

On Christmas Eve, a unique description of the event which is celebrated on Christmas Day was posted on Instagram.

"In the story of Christmas, Christ was born in modern-day Palestine under the threat of a government engaged in a massacre of innocents," the post begins. 

"He was part of a targeted population being indiscriminately killed to protect an unjust leader's power. Mary and Joseph, displaced by violence and forced to flee, became refugees in Egypt with a newborn waiting to one day return home. 

"Thousands of years later, right-wing forces are violently occupying Bethlehem as similar stories unfold for today's Palestinians, so much so that the Christian community in Bethlehem has canceled this year's Christmas Eve celebrations out of both safety and respect.

"And yet, also today, holy children are still being born in a place of unspeakable violence - for every child born, of any identity and from any place, is sacred. Especially the children of Gaza.

"The entire story of Christmas and Christ himself is about standing with the poor and powerless, the marginalized and maligned, the refugees and immigrants, the outcast and misunderstood without exception.

"This high Christian holiday is about honoring the precious sanctity of a family that, if the story were to unfold today, would be Jewish Palestinians. Merry Christmas. May there be peace on Earth, amen," the post concluded.

This version of the Christmas story has little to do with truth and history, but has much to say about the anti-Semitic mania that is now sweeping our country.

This particular work of fiction is representative of the illusions possessed by those who hate Jews and blame Israel for the bloody savagery unleashed upon it by the Hamas terrorist organization on October 7.

It was created by one Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat Representative from the state of New York. She is casually known as “AOC.”

Her diatribe created quite a stir, both from supporters and opponents of Israel and the Jewish people. One of her critics is Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, former presidential candidate, and someone who knows the real story.

Huckabee noted correctly that “Jesus was Jewish.” And he also provided some accuracy about Palestine and other relevant factors.

“’Palestinian’ meant Jewish people until 1962 when Yasser Arafat co-opted the term and created a nation and made up a people, and called them the ‘Palestinians,’ who previously were Jordanian,” he noted.

“This is a person that is utterly ignorant about what she is talking about, and she may ought to stick to something she knows, like bartending,” he said. “She has no clue about the history of the Middle East, Jesus, the Jewish people, the State of Israel, or virtually anything else that she talked about in her post,” Huckabee said.

Speaking about the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel, he said that it’s the most “uncivilized act of atrocity that we have probably seen in our lifetime.” “And for anybody to defend this and scream ‘from the river to the sea,’ it’s not just anti-Semitism, it’s anti-humanity. This is evil.”

Since the slaughter and barbarism committed by Hamas last October, the United States has seen many pro-Palestinian/Hamas, anti-Israel protests. Many of them have been and are on college campuses.

There, Jewish students have been threatened and unable to move about freely, even to the point of having to miss classes. College administrations seemed unconcerned with this situation.

Recently, holiday travelers were heavily inconvenienced by protests blocking roads to airports, resulting in many travelers missing their flights.

In desperation, many of these people left their blocked vehicles and walked through the protesters trying to get to the gate before their flight took off.

Earlier in the year, a group of pro-Palestinian/Hamas protesters disrupted the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and vandalized the New York Public Library, sparking a wave of outrage.

Hundreds of demonstrators disrupted the Macy's Parade by gluing their hands to the pavement in the center of Sixth Avenue. Dressed in white jumpsuits, they were covered in fake blood. Some of them went to the library, and sprayed the words “free Palestine” in spray paint on the building, and damaged the buildings columns.

Exactly how this criminal behavior helps the Palestinians, or Hamas, is left to the imagination.

America still prides itself as a nation with freedom of speech protected in the U.S. Constitution. Yes, speech is still a protected right, despite the fact that some media are allowed to censor some speech. 

But the question is: why do these anti-Semites insist on blocking traffic and indulging in other criminal activities while exercising that right?

* * *

As we begin a new year, let us hope that 2024 returns the nation to the good old days of 2020, when prices were better, the southern border was more secure, we were not so illogically focused on the false hope of electric vehicles and green energy “saving the world,” and we were more focused on preserving the great country our founders had given us than on fundamentally transforming the United States of America into just one more socialist failure.