A priest’s Christmas morning take on Jesus Christ as a “Palestinian Jew” was panned for “embarrassingly wrong” forced parallels that seemingly scapegoat Israel.
If it weren’t already clear, CNN is not short for Catholic News Network, and Father Edward Beck’s appearance Monday proved “Clown News Network” would be a more apt description. As laity and clergy alike have been forced to contend with globalism’s perceived tainting of the faith via Pope Francis’ recent declaration on the blessing of same-sex couples and the targeted removal of cardinals and bishops for “speaking the Truth of…Catholic faith,” Beck only added to the “woke-ification” of the church with some revisionist history.
“I think the message of Christmas is that God enters into it with us and we’re not alone in it. What I’m so struck by is that the story of Christmas is about a Palestinian Jew — how often do you find those words put together?” asked Beck of Poppy Harlow.
NEW: CNN guest Father Edward Beck says Christmas is a story about a “Palestinian Jew.”
Clown News Network strikes again.
“The story of Christmas is about a Palestinian Jew. Now, how often do you find those words put together?”
“A Palestinian Jew born into a time when his… pic.twitter.com/WWI7U5RLtx
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 25, 2023
“A Palestinian Jew born into a time when his country was occupied, right? They can’t find a place for her to even give birth, his mother. They’re homeless. They eventually have to flee as refugees into Egypt, no less. I mean, you can’t make up the parallels to our current world situation right now,” continued the priest forcing an ill-fitting round peg through a square hole.
“And so in some way, that is who we believed God becomes, born into that situation and yet, that very man, Jesus, says love one another, love your enemies,” remarked Beck. “There is hope. There is light in the darkness. I’m attesting to that. So somehow that God enters that experience of suffering and that struggles and is actually born into it, that is what is so miraculous about this celebration for me.”
Along with many quoting scripture in response to the priests recounting of the nativity story to highlight “When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea,” Beck was lambasted on social media as a “pandering hypocrite,” “manipulative [clown]” and in need of being defrocked by Pope Francis for “literally making up the parallel that Jesus was Palestinian live on air.”
What a pandering hypocrite
— BlackRobeRegiment (@BlkRobeRegiment) December 26, 2023
What a manipulative
— swdcaz1994 (@swdcaz1994) December 25, 2023
Francis needs to defrock this “priest”
— Yuri the Jew (@YuriZelensky69) December 26, 2023
New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz slammed Beck as “embarrassingly wrong” in his latest venture in politicized priesthood having been a prominent Pfizer peddler during COVID declaring ahead of Christmas 2021, “Yep. I said it. I don’t think unvaccinated people should be gathering in churches for Christmas Eve / Day Masses. ‘Love thy neighbor,’ says the Savior.”
His take on Jesus Christ as a “Palestinian Jew” came as Christianity Today contended “He was Asian” and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) pumped out a similar Gospel rewrite on Christmas Eve where she said, “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 respect,” the congresswoman added with her own highly politicized take.
Beck would go on to block certain people on social media for calling attention to his “Palestinian Jew” take, but that didn’t stop users like actor Matthew Marsden from calling him out and reminding that much of the problem comes from within the hierarchy of the Vatican.
“I am a Catholic father of nine, and I am so sick of these liberal Priests. Can we just enjoy Christmas without you pushing a political agenda? No point in tagging [Cardinal Timothy] Dolan,” Marsden told Samwawal Foundations founder Avi Kaner. “The Bishops won’t do a thing.”
And now, this apparent man of God blocked me. pic.twitter.com/VgUaqUnJCB
— Avi Kaner ابراهيم אבי (@AviKaner) December 25, 2023
I am a Catholic father of nine, and I am so sick of these liberal Priests.
Can we just enjoy Christmas without you pushing a political agenda?
No point in tagging Dolan, Avi. The Bishops won’t do a thing.
— Matthew Marsden (@matthewdmarsden) December 25, 2023
This . I’m Catholic as well and frustrated over leadership crozying up to dictators, accepting transgenderism as anything other than a psychological disease, and failing to call out terrorism among the Palestinians.
— RogerM (@SouthFLdude) December 25, 2023
Hope he didn’t pull anything reaching for that so hard
— Cryssie (@CryssieGA) December 25, 2023
Huh? Has this guy ever read the Bible? It says Joseph and Mary were headed to their HOME TOWN to register for the census. How could Jesus be a “refugee”, much less “Palestinian”? The term “Palestine” doesn’t occur in any records until five centuries later.
And people wonder why…
— Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach) December 25, 2023
They weren’t homeless but that they traveled to a town where all the inns were over full because of the census. And that Joseph, as a descendent of David as well as a tradesman, was not poor but a pillar of the community. I know you were taught better.
— luke martin (@LukeSlukemartin) December 25, 2023
You are an embarrassment, and you are wrong.
— Brian Hughes (@BuckeyeBri_HDS) December 25, 2023
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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