The New York Times has come under fire once again after it ran an op-ed article claiming that Jesus was Palestinian and not Jewish.
It comes just days after the paper apologized for publishing an anti-Semitic cartoon of Donald Trump and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in its international print edition.
The Times issued the correction a week after the article was published on April 19. The line in question read: 'Jesus, born in Bethlehem, was most likely a Palestinian man'.
The New York Times has come under fire once again after it ran an op-ed article claiming that Jesus was Palestinian and not Jewish
The Times issued the correction a week after an article that ran on April 19 read: 'Jesus, born in Bethlehem, was most likely a Palestinian man'
It was later changed to: 'But Jesus, a Jew born in Bethlehem, presumably had the complexion of a Middle Eastern man'.
The sentence appeared in the op-ed 'As a Black Child, I Couldn't Understand Why Jesus Had Blue Eyes'.
'Because of an editing error, an article last Saturday referred incorrectly to Jesus' background,' the Times wrote in its correction.
'While he lived in an area that later came to be known as Palestine, Jesus was a Jew who was born in Bethlehem.'
Rabbi Abraham Cooper told the Jewish Journal that the original sentence had been a 'grotesque insult to Jesus'.
Boston College lecturer Elliot Hamilton called the op-ed 'historical revisionism at its finest'.
'Jesus existed before the name "Palestine" was even coined by the Romans,' he tweeted. 'The @nytimes is truly the worst.'
The sentence appeared in the op-ed 'As a Black Child, I Couldn't Understand Why Jesus Had Blue Eyes' (pictured)
Boston College lecturer Elliot Hamilton called the op-ed 'historical revisionism at its finest'
The Times apologized for the Trump cartoon on Saturday, acknowledging that it included 'anti-Semitic tropes', was 'offensive', and that 'it was an error of judgement to publish it'.
'Apology not accepted,' the American Jewish Committee tweeted in response to the Times' clarification on Saturday.
'What does this say about your processes or your decision makers? How are you fixing it? Naked antisemitism such as in this image is not 'an error of judgment,' it continued.
'We have to wonder if the @nytimes editors would've published a similar cartoon depicting any other country or people.'
The uproar
