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The Gospel According to Berkeley. Meet the Palestinian Jesus
2023-12-27 (244)
A special Christmas sketch from Israeli satire show #eretznehederet (A Wonderful Country) featuring #brettgelman

Video Transcription:
[Music]
what more visitors
I greetings Joseph and Miriam from
Nazareth the Star of Bethlehem and GPS
showed us the way to your door allow us
to introduce
ourselves we are three wise men from the
West okay um three wise
Persons Of course may we enter love the
decor very earthy yeah so sustainable oh
yes what are these walls Cadillac I'm
sorry but it's really late I just had a
baby yeah and we we already had a visit
from the three wise men from the East
they just left so maybe it's not a good
time all due respect to these Eastern
wise men we're from
Berkeley okay anyway they give us their
blessing and they told us that our
newborn son will be the king of the
Jews the Jews King Jews what what do you
mean
Jews I don't see anything Jewish here
you have to understand Jews will only
come to this land
1,948 years from now as the colonialist
power oh I see someone's been listening
this semester true what do you mean we
are Jews no no you're not so what are we
you are Palestinians of
course that drip is fire Palace what
Palestinians the indigenous inhabitants
of this land in the beginning God
created the Heaven the Earth and
Palestinians oh wait so my baby is also
palestini
man of course and you don't practice
Judaism you practice Islam Allah abbar
man so abbar what is Islam I'm sorry
that's a very islamophobic question
actually it makes me feel unsafe so wait
a minute our baby will be the king of
the Palestinians exactly too bad he'll
be dead at a very young age because
he'll be murdered by the Jews oh my god
um excuse me Professor uh so there are
Jews living here I no no no no no no no
only Palestinians oh so the Palestinians
will kill Jesus no no no Palestinian
would ever hurt anyone never especially
not Hamas wait I don't understand okay
guys this is exactly what our next class
is about all right how did the Jews kill
Jesus without even existing it's going
to be fun all right don't worry about it
wow it's so worth 54 Grand a year in
tuition right exting
anyways congratulations on your
definitely not Jewish baby boy yay woo
can we go visit Santa in the north pole
north Palestine North Palestine Santa is
a Palestinian too Santa walk
bar very good ho ho
ho
what the hell was that
Jesus
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