In a recent tweet, “progressive Christian” Shane Claiborne is helping his Palestinian friends advance their propaganda in the West. Claiborne encourages viewers to check out a video about how tear gas canisters (used by the Israel Defense Forces, of course, the New Nazis as claimed by the PLO) are being made into Christmas ornaments.

It’s all part of Claiborne’s coordinated effort with other pro Palestinian, Western religious figures to convince the masses that “peacemaking” is what the Palestinians are really all about. Claiborne & Friends are unhappy over the fact that most Americans are pro Israel. In fact, a recent Gallup poll shows that 62 percent favor Israel, while only 15 percent side with the Palestinians. Claiborne and friends like Tony Campolo fervently wish to reverse those numbers.

But as usual, the seemingly affable Claiborne gives us half the story, and usually a distorted one at that. For example, he doesn’t appear to make videos about Christmas ornaments made from bomb belts carried by Palestinian homicide bombers into Israeli areas, where they are used to blow Jews to bits.

Those bloody facts put a kink in the chain Claiborne wishes to wrap Israel in, and is just one more proof that the useful idiots in the West are often willing to be so useful.

It’s no accident that progressives in religious circles idolize Barack Obama. His stand-down—while a half-million men, women, and children are butchered in Syria—stands in contrast to his rage at Israel over building homes, businesses, and apartments in their ancestral land.

It’s fascinating to note that “progressive Christians” can defame Israel, even while visiting Israel(!), and no one harms them. They have freedom of religion and freedom of speech courtesy the only democracy in the Middle East.

But let them smoke weed and sing Kumbaya and make Christmas ornaments in Aleppo, or Gaza, or Ramallah, or Yemen, and see how far they get.