For years, the Palestinian Authority and Fatah have claimed that Jesus was a Palestinian, thereby fabricating a Palestinian history dating back 2000 years. Ignoring the fact that Christian tradition defines Jesus as a Judean and that the Roman Empire changed the name of Judea into “Palestine†only a hundred years after Jesus lived, senior PA and Fatah leaders have presented as historic fact that Jesus and his mother Mary were Palestinians and that Jesus was “the first Palestinian Martyr,†and the first Palestinian refugee, as documented by Palestinian Media Watch