Fact-checking the ‘Jesus is Palestinian’ billboard

Many local New Yorkers and visiting tourists were rightly upset to see a massive billboard in Times Square proclaiming that, “Jesus is Palestinian. Merry Christmas.” Making matters even worse was another billboard containing a citation from the Quran (Surah Al-Imran 3:45), with Allah announcing the good news of the birth of Jesus the Messiah.

The ads, which were sponsored by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), were said to be acts of “cultural resilience.”

In reality...