Rev. Jeremiah Wright: 'Jesus was a Palestinian'

JERUSALEM, Israel -- Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the former pastor of President Barack Obama and his family, told the crowd at a rally organized by Nation of Islam, led by Louis Farrakhan, that Jesus was Palestinian, the Daily Caller reported over the weekend.

"We are grateful to God to be able to be here and to speak a word on behalf of Palestinian justice," Wright said at the "Justice or Else" rally in Washington, D.C., commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March.

"The original people, the Palestinians -- and please remember Jesus was a Palestinian -- the Palestinian people have had the Europeans come and take their country," he said, articulating Palestinian Liberation Theology.

Wright accused Israel, which he called an "apartheid" state, of illegally occupying "as they take the people whose countries it is and make it their[s] because their God told them that they could have somebody else's country."

Wright compared the Palestinian conflict to the struggles of African-American youth.

"The youth in Ferguson and the youth in Palestine have united together to remind us that the dots need to be connected," he said.

He added that this has "implications for us as we stand beside our Palestinian brothers and sisters who have been done one of the most egregious injustices in the 20 and 21 centuries."

The Obama family attended Wright's church for 20 years, with some referring to Rev. Wright as the president's spiritual mentor.