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The Palestinian Museum — an institution scheduled to open in Birzeit in 2015 — presents images of Jesus as a modern Palestinian, according to a Palestinian Media Watch report. It reinforces the “PA message [that] that Palestinians suffer as Jesus did” and by “claiming he was not a Judean as in Christian tradition, but rather a Palestinian,” the PA therefore claims “a Palestinian history dating back to the time of Jesus.”
Among other images, a modified painting by Raphael, “The Deposition”(1507), shows Jesus being carried to his tomb after the Crucifixion, but the PA version superimposes a photo of a Palestinian with bloody legs being carried as an IDF soldier looks on.
Another altered painting, Rembrandt’s “The Sacrifice of Isaac” (1635), shows an IDF soldier holding the face of Isaac preparing to cut his throat, instead of Abraham. Yet another shows Murillo’s “Christ healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda” (1670) superimposed against a background of the security barrier constructed by Israel.
According to a report in official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, the images will be displayed in the courtyard of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem during Pope Francis’ visit, in order to “expose Palestinian suffering caused by Israel.” Read more