Georgia Democrat Senate candidate is historically illiterate

 The Lid:

Raphael Warnock, the Democrat running in Georgia’s Senate runoff election — who claims to be a Christian minister — has pushed the lie that Jesus of Nazareth was a “Palestinian.” Not only is that a historically impossible claim, but designed to erase the historical connections between the Jewish people and the holy land. Warnock’s attempt to disconnect the Jewish people from the holy land is anti-Semitic according to Pope Francis, President Trump’s executive order about Antisemitism, and this writer.
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After the Bar Kochba revolt in 135 CE, the Romans punished the Judeans (Jews) for revolting for the second time in sixty years. To poke those rebellious Judeans in the eye, the Romans changed the Jewish state’s name from Judea to Syria Palaestina. The Romans used Palestina because of the name of the ancient enemy of the Jews, the Philistines. There were no Philistines around anymore (they had disappeared from existence around eight hundred years earlier).

The Romans also threw out many of the Judeans from their country, creating the Jewish exile that lasted till 1948.

In the meantime, the Byzantine Empire (continuation of the Roman Empire formed from its eastern provinces) took control of the holy land around the year 330 C.E. In the year 638 C.E., the land was conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate, which was run by the first four caliphs who took over after Muhammad died It became part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire in the 1400s. After WW1, the League of Nations made it a British protectorate, known as the British Mandate Of Palestine. That lasted until 1948, when the modern Jewish State, Israel, was created. Throughout that period from the year 135 through the year 1948, there was a large population of Jews living in the land. In fact, before 1948, Jews living in the holy land were called Palestinians.

Therefore anyone who looked at history knows there was never an independent Arab or Muslim state called Palestine.

Putting the timeline together, it is clear to anyone with basic math skills that Jesus can’t have been a Palestinian. There was no piece of land called Palestine until a century after Jesus died (estimated at the year 30 C.E.), and the area wasn’t controlled by Muslims until 600 years after his death. Even then, it was part of a Califate, not an independent state.

If Jesus was a Palestinian, Christians couldn’t claim that he was descended from King David, one of the Jewish Messiah requirements.

The claiming that Jesus was a Palestinian, Warnock is trying to create a new history for the Palestinians. If they can convince people of the falsehood, a Palestinian state was around for two millennia until 1948. That way, the lie that Jews are occupying Palestinian land becomes almost logical.

By claiming Jesus was a Palestinian, Warnock is proving he hasn’t the slightest idea of history, is anti-Semitic, and trying to delegitimize the Jewish state of Israel and the 3.500+ year Jewish heritage in the holy land or is really crappy at math. Perhaps all three.
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BTW, the Philistines were descendants of Greeks who migrated to the area. This was recently discovered when Israeli archeologists examined the DNA of Philistines found in the area.  That further blows the claim of the Palestinians who are of Arabic descent.  There is literally no support for claims that current Palestinians are descendants of people indigenous to the region.  They are mostly Arabs from Egypt and Jordan who are likely descendants of the Arabian conquest following the rise of Muhammad.