Priest takes on social media
Desbois took aim at a claim that circulated on social media that Jesus was Palestinian and not Jewish.
“What we see in Bethlehem today, this need to affirm that Jesus was not Jewish, is political,” he argued.
Syrian-British influencer Richard Medhurst, for one, asserted in a Christmas Eve video that “you cannot be a Christian and support Israel.”
“If Jesus were born today, he would be born under the rubble, he would be persecuted in his mother’s womb like so many Palestinians who have died stillborn because of Israeli bombardment,” Medhurst shared.
Desbois countered: “If he had lived in 1942, Jesus would have been deported to Auschwitz, and if he had been born today, he would be the target of missiles or be a hostage in Gaza.”