Tag: Jewish faith

Setting The Lie Straight: Jesus Was Not a Palestinian by Michael L. Brown for Ask Dr. Brown Let’s set the record straight. Jesus was a Galilean Jew, not a Palestinian Muslim. He celebrated Passover, not Ramadan, and he was called “Rabbi” not “Imam.” His followers were named Yaakov and Yochanan and Yehudah, not Muhammad and Abdullah and Khalid. And he himself had one of the most common Jewish names of the day: Yeshua. As for the name “Palestine,” it was not used in any widespread way to describe the land of…