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Punch » 25 Dec 2023, 5:06 pm » wrote: ↑

25 Dec 2023, 5:06 pm

I have to admit it, this got to me a little bit. 
Alexandria will get no blowback from me. Her heart is in the right place.
So is everything else. I would blow her though.

'Squad' member blasted for anti-Israel message on Christmas, likening Jesus to Palestinian people (msn.com)

AOC faced blowback for her social media post that tried to liken Jesus to the Palestinian people and criticize Israel but made no mention of Hamas or their hostages."In the story of Christmas, Christ was born in modern-day Palestine under the threat of a government engaged in a massacre of innocents," Ocasio-Cortez wrote, referencing Jews who lived in the land over 2,000 years ago under Roman control. "He was part of a targeted population being indiscriminately killed to protect an unjust leader’s power."
"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," she added, although the area is currently under the control of the Palestinian Authority. "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 concluded. (   -Punch)
Jacob Kornbluh, a senior political reporter at The Forward, responded with a post on X that called out the representative for making "no mention of Hamas terror"
or "the victims of the Oct. 7 attack. "Pro-Israel activist Andrea Karshan lamented that some people are not enjoying Christmas, instead seeking to get "so social justice political about it," The New York Post reported. 
Bethlehem, the long-held birthplace of Jesus, announced it would not hold its usual Christmas festivities in solidarity with Gaza and the ongoing violence. Regularly displayed decorations were also removed "in honor of the martyrs," the city council wrote in a post on Facebook. Theologian Jonathan Morris told Fox News that the whole decision amounted to "a political statement overtaking something that we Christians and that Christians of Bethlehem consider to be so sacred."