Brett Gelman, center, as a guest star on the Israeli sketch comedy show “Eretz Nehederet.” Photo: Screenshot

Jewish American actor and comedian Brett Gelman was a guest star Tuesday night on the Israeli sketch comedy show Eretz Nehederet, where he took part in a satirical Christmas-themed scene that denied Jewish history and identity while also addressing anti-Israel sentiments on college campuses in the US.

The Stranger Things star joined the show’s cast members in filming a nativity scene, in honor of Christmas on Monday. Instead of three wise men from the east, baby Jesus, Joseph, and Miriam were visited by “three wise men from the west” who were from the University of California, Berkeley.

In the skit, the Fleabag actor played a Berkeley professor who traveled with two of his students and followed “the Star of Bethlehem and GPS” to visit baby Jesus in Bethlehem. Gelman’s character told Joseph that “Jews will only come to this land 1,948 years from now,” to which one of his students added, “as a colonialist power” — a comment that the professor applauded.

Confused by the remark, Mary and Joseph asked,  “What do you mean? We are Jews?” The professor responded, “No, you’re not. You are Palestinians, of course. The indigenous inhabitants of this land.” He then misquoted the Bible: “In the beginning, God created the Heaven, the Earth, and Palestinians.” One of the Berkeley students also draped on Joseph a keffiyeh, a traditional headscarf worn in the Middle East that has become known as a symbol of solidarity with the Palestinian resistance against Israel.

“So my baby is also a Palestinian?” asked Mary. “Of course,” said the professor, who also told Mary and Joseph that they practice Islam, not Judaism. “Allahu akbar, man,” said one of his students. When Joseph asked what Islam was, the professor answered, “I’m sorry. That’s a very Islamophobic question.”