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List of Palestinian Christians

Further information on Palestinians: History of Palestinian nationality and Definitions of Palestinian

The following lists of Palestinian Christians are lists of notable Christians who either self-identified as Palestinian , or were referred to as Palestinian in reference of their origin or long-time residence being in the Palestine region, the designation being an endonym and exonym respectively.

First few centuries AD

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Clergymen

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Palestinian Catholics

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Politicians

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Journalists

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Cultural figures

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  • Ashraf Barhom – Christian actor from Tarshiha, northern Israel.
  • Edward Said – Palestinian literary theorist, cultural critic, political activist
  • Rosemarie Said Zahlan – historian and writer
  • George Antonius – founder of modern Arab nationalist history
  • Khalil Beidas – scholar, educator, translator and novelist during the Al-Nahda cultural renaissance
  • Khalil al-Sakakini – educator, scholar, poet, and Arab nationalist during the Al-Nahda cultural renaissance
  • Tawfiq Canaan – physician, researcher of Palestinian popular heritage
  • May Ziadeh – poet, essayist and translator during the Al-Nahda cultural renaissance
  • Elia Suleiman – Palestinian film maker and actor
  • Hanna Musleh – Palestinian film maker and university professor
  • Raja Shehadeh – lawyer and writer
  • Rifat Odeh Kassis – human rights activist
  • George Saliba – Professor of Arabic and Islamic Science at the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University, New York, United States
  • Rami George Khouri – journalist and editor
  • Hisham Zreiq – award-winning independent film maker, poet and visual artist
  • Ray Hanania – Palestinian-American journalist also known for his stand-up comedy[11]
  • Joseph Massad – Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University
  • Rim Banna – singer, composer, and arranger who is well known for her modern interpretations of traditional Palestinian folk songs
  • Amal Murkus – singer
  • Anton Shammas – essayist, writer of fiction and poetry and translator
  • Fady Andraos – singer and actor
  • Karl Sabbagh – Palestinian-British writer, journalist and television producer
  • Suleiman Mansour – Prominent Palestinian painter
  • Sabri Jiryis – writer and lawyer
  • Leila Sansour – film director
  • Makram Khoury – actor
  • Clara Khoury – actress
  • Kamal Boullata – artist & writer, Boulatta is the author of several studies on Palestinian art in particular, Palestinian Art (Saqi 2009) and Between Exits: Paintings by Hani Zurob (Black Dog 2012).
  • Steve Sabella – artist
  • Ibrahim Fawal – Palestinian American academic, former professor, and author of the historical novel On the Hills of God.
  • Widad Kawar – Palestinian ethnic and cultural art collector.
  • Basheer Nijim [ar] – Palestinian-American geographic.[12]
  • Lilli Karnik [ar] – Palestinian poet.[13]

Militants

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  • Sirhan Sirhan – assassin of United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy
  • Chris Bandak – Palestinian Christian militant and a leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and the Tanzim, both armed wings of the Fatah movement, convicted and imprisoned in Israel until 2011.[14]
  • Wadie Haddad – Palestinian leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine's armed wing. He was responsible for organizing several civilian airplane hijackings in support of the Palestinian cause in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • George Habash – founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Luttif Afif, the commander of the Black September Organization (BSO) unit that carried out the 1972 Munich massacre, was reported to have at least a partial Christian background.[78][79][80] He used the alias "Jesus",[81] and named the Munich operation "Iqrit and Biram",[82][83][84] after two Christian villages whose inhabitants were expelled by the IDF during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.[85][86][87]

  • Theresa Halaseh, another member of the BSO, was a Christian[88][89][90] and also a Fatah member.[91] She participated in the BSO hijacking of Sabena Flight 571, and was captured but later released in a 1983 prisoner exchange.[92][93]
  • Nayef Hawatmeh

A Jordanian Christian, leads a Palestinian organization, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), which broke off from the PFLP in 1969.[75][76][77]

  • Daniel Saba George, both from Bethlehem. Bandak was imprisoned by Israel for shooting at Israeli motorists during the Second Intifada,[94][95] and at that time was described as the only Christian in the entire Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, later released in 2011 as part of an exchange for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.[99] Daniel Saba George ("Abu Hamama"), who was also a senior Tanzim operative, was killed by Israel in 2006.[100]

Businesspeople

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Activists

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Canonized by the Catholic Church

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Other

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Middle East Central Synod Inaugurated, Bishops Installed". episcopalarchives. 6 January 1976. Archived from the original on 12 March 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Retired Bishop of Jerusalem to Speak Tomorrow in Bethlehem Religion". The Morning Call. 17 May 1986. Archived from the original on 7 December 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Church of Hope--Ramallah". Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land. Archived from the original on September 6, 2024. Retrieved September 6, 2024.
  4. ^ "If Americans Knew presents". Israel Palestine News. Archived from the original on 20 March 2011.
  5. ^ a b c d Derfner, Larry (7 May 2009). "Persecuted Christians?". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 22 August 2023. Retrieved 10 May 2009.
  6. ^ The Palestinians resisting Israel's threats of detention and death Archived 16 June 2022 at the Wayback Machine September 11, 2019, Middle East Monitor
  7. ^ "Israeli Arab Who Spied for Hezbollah Jailed for Nine Years". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 16 March 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  8. ^ "Palestinian Human Rights Activist Jailed in Israel". Amnesty International. 30 January 2011. Archived from the original on 1 February 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2011.
  9. ^ Jonathan Adelman and Agota Kuperman (24 May 2006). "The Christian Exodus from the Middle East" (PDF). Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 May 2006. Retrieved 17 August 2009.
  10. ^ "L'Entretien - Elias Sanbar, ambassadeur de Palestine auprès de l'Unesco". France 24 (in French). 8 November 2013. Archived from the original on 17 October 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  11. ^ Jüdische Nachrichten. "A Palestinian Refusenik's Open Letter to the Jewish People". Archived from the original on 17 August 2021. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  12. ^ "Basheer K. Nijim". Archived from the original on June 5, 2022. Retrieved September 6, 2024.
  13. ^ "لذكرى الشاعرة الفلسطينية للي كرنيك" (in Arabic). January 12, 2013. Archived from the original on April 4, 2021. Retrieved September 6, 2024.
  14. ^ "PA minister visits family of imprisoned Palestinian Christian". Ma'an News Agency. Archived from the original on 4 September 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  15. ^ "Centre de droit arabe et musulman مركز القانون العربي والإسلامي". Centre de droit arabe et musulman مركز القانون العربي والإسلامي. Archived from the original on 13 August 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  16. ^ "Victory at last for Los Angeles 8". Archived from the original on 28 January 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
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