The image was surreal.

There, in the run-up to Christmas, a baby Jesus reclined on the floor of a manger. Instead of the usual swaddling blankets, however, this sacred infant lay on — wait for it — a keffiyeh. You know, that notorious black-and-white scarf symbolizing Palestinian "resistance" to what they call the Jewish "occupation" of their homeland.

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