I thought I was done with this subject for a while.
Two weeks ago, I wrote a scathing column denouncing Pope Francis for swaddling the Vatican's baby Jesus figure in a keffiyeh. Perhaps, I speculated, in displaying Jesus with the modern symbol of Palestinian "resistance" to Israel's existence as a Jewish state, the Pope had forgotten a key tenant of both history and his religion: that Jesus was a Jew. Or, more likely, had conveniently misplaced it on the altar of an offensive and anti-Semitic political agenda.
