‘Jeopardy!’ criticized for ruling that Bethlehem is not in ...

(January 13, 2020 / JNS) The online game display "Jeopardy!" has come under fireplace for now not accepting "Palestine" as an answer of the place Jesus Christ changed into born throughout a reveal that aired on Friday.

The $200 clue within the category "the place's That Church?" changed into "inbuilt the 300s A.D., the Church of the Nativity."

Contestant Katie Needle buzzed in and answered, "what's Palestine?"

Host Alex Trebek, seventy nine, rejected her reply and accepted contestant Jack McGuire's reply of "what's Israel?"

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The Church of the Nativity, which Christians believe is the birthplace of Jesus, is determined in Bethlehem, which is under manage of the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) as a part of the 1995 Oslo Accords that exact the city as area A, which gave the P.A. full civil and security control of the city.

"Unacceptable!! Bethlehem is within the Palestinian territories which Israel illegally occupies (Katie Needle got the proper reply & became robbed). @Jeopardy owes an apology for endorsing Israel's universally condemned illegal takeover of Palestinian lands," tweeted Arab American Institute deputy director Omar Baddar.

The answer has brought about controversy and a social-media uproar.

some of the oldest cities on the planet, Bethlehem, which is known as wager Lechem in Hebrew or "condominium of Bread," changed into part of the historical Kingdom of Judah.

The Christian Bible within the Gospel of Matthew and Luke attributes the metropolis because the birthplace of Jesus all over the primary century C.E., which at the time become a Jewish client kingdom of the Roman Empire. The city is additionally the burial location of the Jewish matriarch Rachel, the birthplace of King David and the web site of the story of Ruth, a Moabite who marries an Israelite.

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