It is unfortunate that Christmas time brings out antisemites who rewrite history to deny Jewish heritage. These people claim that Jesus was a Palestinian, meaning an Arab. They also claim that Jews are privileged white people. The “proof” is that Jesus must have been a man of colour. This distortion of truth tries to negate the fact that Jesus was a Mizrahi Jew, one of the indigenous people of Israel. At the time of Jesus the land was Israel (it was renamed Palestine by the Romans in 132 AD). Jews are people of colour, so this is not a problem. The current Palestinians are more recent Arab migrants who for political reasons appropriated the name from the Jews in the 1960s, a brilliant marketing move based on a lie. [Image: Bartolo di Fredi, the Adoration of the Shepherd, 1374]