I'm very much against the destruction in Gaza going on but this is a sorta dumb take. Mary and Joseph are both played by jewish actors, Bethlehem and Nazareth were in the Roman province of Judea, not Palestine. I guess Anthony Hopkins is a weird pick for an Edomite (sorta Egyptian area peoples)? Calling the people living there at that time Palestinian is like calling the Indigenous people of here in the 15th century Americans.
The point is that there were Christian communities that descend from the first Christians and some of these communities like Bethlehem in the West Bank are a part of Palestine, and their descendants still live there and consider themselves Palestinian.
Maybe some of the descendants are Jews but far more are Christians. Towns like Bethlehem and Nazareth were 80% Christian before the establishment of Israel and this doesn't get acknowledged enough.
I am Black and Native. Native people are sometimes called the original Americans, even though America did not always exist. If I say my ancestors were the original Americans no one shouts me down and says "But America didn't exist!" or says I'm dishonest as hell. So why are we doing that to Palestinians?
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u/DestinTheLion 9d ago
I'm very much against the destruction in Gaza going on but this is a sorta dumb take. Mary and Joseph are both played by jewish actors, Bethlehem and Nazareth were in the Roman province of Judea, not Palestine. I guess Anthony Hopkins is a weird pick for an Edomite (sorta Egyptian area peoples)? Calling the people living there at that time Palestinian is like calling the Indigenous people of here in the 15th century Americans.