One fascinating aspect of liberalism is the absolute indignant confidence they have in the most ridiculous nonsense they say in public.
Meet Kenneth Roth, former director of Human Rights Watch and current visiting professor at Princeton, who is sad Santa skipped over Gaza on Christmas.
For perspective, there are around 1,000 Christians, mostly Greek Orthodox, in Gaza. A tiny fraction of their 800k population. No Jews are allowed in Gaza, btw.
It can never be a merry Christmas in Gaza if Hamas is not eradicated. 1. Because there is nothing merry about a brutal totalitarian regime that controls everything in the strip. 2. Because Christians and their holidays are not more welcome than the Jews, as far as Hamas is concerned.
Things are always so much worse in the imagination of the left, and they never feel more superior and self-righteous.
At least Google it before you spout it to your, checks ... 595K followers. Imagine what this guy is teaching his students!
https://twitchy.com/chad-felix-greene/2023/12/25/do-they-know-its-christmastime-at-all-princeton-professor-sad-santa-didnt-visit-kids-in-gaza-n2391152
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And then there's this little gem...
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CNN Religion Commentator Tells the 'True' Story of Christmas About a Palestinian Jew
Merry Christmas, everyone!
We've already told you on this holiday that CNN's Vatican Correspondent Christopher Lamb tweeted, "If Jesus were born today, he would be born in Gaza under rubble." He deleted the tweet after quite a few people informed him in the replies that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, which is not in Gaza.
CNN's doing its best to get in the Christmas spirit and so invited religion commentator Father Edward Beck to tell how to keep faith and joy alive this holiday season, as well as the true story of Christmas.
But why would he block you? All you did was post his segment and quote what he said.
CNN's fact-checker Daniel Dale has the day off for Christmas.
This reminds us of when Al Gore informed us Mary and Joesph were homeless.
This is what happens when CNN tries to cover religion.
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2023/12/25/cnn-religion-commentator-tells-the-true-story-of-christmas-n2391153---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Not to be outdone in the stupidity department, AOC decided to also chime in.
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AOC May Just Have the Worst Christmas Take on Jesus and Gaza
This is the time of year when we see a lot of folks try to appropriate Jesus to fit their political agenda, and some on the left are at it again this year.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has had a lot of bad takes in the past, but she may win the award for worst take on Jesus, Christmas, and Gaza with her latest Instagram post.
AOC said Jesus was born in "modern-day Palestine under the threat of a government engaged in a massacre of innocents" and that he was part of a "targeted population being indiscriminately killed to protect an unjust leader’s power."
As many pointed out in response to AOC, there was no "Palestine," and Jesus was a Jew born in Judea. Talk about trying to disappear Jews— to deny or twist his Jewishness to something that isn't the case to fit the script they want is the height of trying to make Jews go away.
Plus, the targeting of Jesus wasn't "indiscriminate." If you're targeting, it isn't "indiscriminate." According to the Gospel of Matthew, Herod assassinated the babies because he was trying to target the birth of the "King of the Jews." Herod used that title, and he wanted no challenge to his authority. Kind of a significant thing to miss — all the Jewishness there. Does AOC not know this, or is she just leaving it out because it doesn't help her point?
“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 [fear for their] safety and respect,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote.
“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,” AOC said.
What is she talking about? Does she think the Palestinian Authority that controls the area is "right-wing," or does she think Bethlehem is somehow in Gaza? It's in the West Bank.
“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,” she wrote.
“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,” the Democrat said.
Again, she's missing the "entire story of Christmas and Christ itself." The point of Jesus was being born into the world to save mankind. It wasn't about being a socialist or just about helping the poor. It was very much about the saving of souls. Leftists get the helping the poor part but seem to miss out on the greater, more central point.
AOC, of course, also leaves out the reason for the response of Israel in Gaza: the Oct. 7 attack and the continuing attacks on Israel from Hamas. There's nothing in her comment about the American hostages still being held by Hamas or the Americans who were killed by Hamas, which, as a member of Congress, should be her first concern.
Today is about the birth of Jesus and the gift he was for the world, not someone's political agenda to turn Jesus into something he wasn't.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/12/25/aoc-may-just-have-the-worst-christmas-take-on-jesus-and-gaza-n2167942?bcid=4f42f971f0e1414d2b5e166a7265489e
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