Rev. Jeremiah Wright: 'Jesus was a Palestinian'
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JERUSALEM, Israel -- Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the
former pastor of President Barack Obama and his family, told the crowd
at a rally organized by Nation of Islam, led by Louis Farrakhan, that Jesus was Palestinian, the Daily Caller reported over the weekend.
"We are grateful to God to be able to be here and to
speak a word on behalf of Palestinian justice," Wright said at the
"Justice or Else" rally in Washington, D.C., commemorating the 20th
anniversary of the Million Man March.
"The original people, the Palestinians -- and please
remember Jesus was a Palestinian -- the Palestinian people have had the
Europeans come and take their country," he said, articulating
Palestinian Liberation Theology.
Wright accused Israel, which he called an
"apartheid" state, of illegally occupying "as they take the people whose
countries it is and make it their[s] because their God told them that
they could have somebody else's country."
Wright compared the Palestinian conflict to the struggles of African-American youth.
"The youth in Ferguson and the youth in Palestine
have united together to remind us that the dots need to be
connected," he said.
He added that this has "implications for us as we
stand beside our Palestinian brothers and sisters who have been done one
of the most egregious injustices in the 20 and 21 centuries."
The Obama family attended Wright's church for 20 years, with some referring to Rev. Wright as the president's spiritual mentor.
Source: CBN News