Is it antisemitic?

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7. Actually, it was Instagram.

Here is the story about it:

In a Christmas message posted to her Instagram account, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez reiterated Yasser Arafat’s propaganda claiming that Jesus was a Palestinian.

“In the story of Christmas, Christ was born in modern-day Palestine under the threat of a government engaged in a massacre of innocents,” the Congresswoman wrote. “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 canceled this year’s Christmas Eve celebrations out of both [fear for their] safety and respect,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote.

James Sinkinson, president of Facts and Logic About the Middle East (FLAME), wrote an article, referring to the narrative as “the Big Lie.” Sinkinson noted three reasons for perpetuating the Big Lie:

Establish a Palestinian people when there was none.
Place Palestinian Arabs in the Holy Land long before Arabs actually arrived there.
Characterize Jews as religious adherents, not a people.
AOC has demonstrated an ignorance of Judaism bordering on disrespect and antisemitism multiple times in the past. In a radio interview after the October 7 Hamas massacre, she blamed the massacre on right-wing “Christian fundamentalism and nationalism — which has also been extremely anti-Semitic”.

https://israel365news.com/381349/aoc-christmas-is-about-jesus-the-jewish-palestinian/