Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) faced criticism on Christmas for a distorted retelling of the birth of Jesus Christ and for trying to politicize the event by making false comparisons to the situation in modern day Israel.
“In the story of Christmas, Christ was born in modern-day Palestine under the threat of a government engaged in a massacre of innocents,” she claimed. “He was part of a targeted population being indiscriminately killed to protect an unjust leader’s power. Mary and Joseph, displaced by violence and forced to flee, became refugees in Egypt with a newborn waiting to one day return home.”
“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 cancelled this year’s Christmas Eve celebrations out of both safety and…
