by Dr. Michael Brown, New American Prophet, ©2025
(Dec. 30, 2025) — Many local New Yorkers and visiting tourists were rightly upset to see a massive billboard in Times Square proclaiming that “Jesus is Palestinian. Merry Christmas.” Making matters even worse was another billboard containing a citation from the Quran (Surah Al-Imran 3:45), with Allah announcing the good news of the birth of Jesus the Messiah.
The ads, which were sponsored by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), were said to be acts of “cultural resilience.”
In reality, they promoted falsehood and stirred conflict at a time that is still sacred to hundreds of millions of Christians worldwide.
As for allegedly demonstrating unity in the belief systems of Christianity and Islam, the billboards did the opposite, since the Jesus of the Quran is not the Jesus of the Bible.
To the contrary, the Jesus of Islam is a very different Jesus. He is not the Son of God, he did not die for our sins, he did not rise from the dead, and he is absolutely not to be worshiped as God. As for his teaching, his character, and his work, almost none of it is recounted in the Quran.
To say, “Muslims believe in Jesus,” would be similar to someone saying, “I believe in Muhammad. But I don’t believe he was a prophet and I don’t believe the Quran is God’s Word.”
Comparatively speaking, the Jesus of the Quran is even more gutted than that. (For Muslims reading this article, I encourage you to read the Gospels for yourself – Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John – so that you can discover the real Jesus.)
As for Jesus being Palestinian, this anachronistic claim has been circulating in one form or another for decades. But since it has resurfaced so loudly and prominently again, it’s time to set the record straight once more.
In short, Jesus was a Galilean Jew, not a Palestinian (let alone a Palestinian Muslim). He celebrated Passover, not Ramadan, and he was called “Rabbi” not “Imam.” His followers were named Yaakov and Yochanan and Yehudah, not Muhammad and Abdullah and Khalid. And he himself had one of the most common Jewish names of the day: Yeshua.
As for the name “Palestine,” it was not used in any widespread way to describe the land of Israel until 135 AD – in other words, more than 100 years after Yeshua’s death and resurrection. And it was renamed Palestine by the Romans to mock the Jewish people, thereby calling their ancient (and sacred) homeland the land of the Philistines.
Jesus was born in Bethlehem, a Jewish city in the heart of Judea. It was not then part of “Palestine” and no one on the planet was called “Palestinian.” These are simple, indisputable, historical facts.
The Jewish Messiah was born to a Jewish mother in a Jewish city in Judea.
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