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Humantrustees.org aims to foster understanding and cooperation between Muslims and Christians so as to empower them to live up to their God-given calling as “trustees of the earth.” This Christian initiative seeks to accomplish this goal through scholarship, teaching, news commentary, and networking between scholars, members of both communities, and with anyone else who is passionate about peace and human flourishing.
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03 October 2025

Vigorous Internal Jewish Debates on Gaza (7)

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Palestinians walk through the destruction in the wake of an Israeli air and ground offensive in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana). Article by Yonat Shimron, “Despite growing consensus, many Jewish and Christian groups loath to admit genocide in Gaza,” Religion News Service, Jan. 13, 2025.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), an international news agency going back to 1917 with stellar journalistic credentials, ran an article in mid-August 2025 with the title, “Jew vs Jew rhetoric breaks hearts in a bitter internal debate about the Gaza war.” In it, Andrew Silow-Carroll argues that almost two years into this Gaza war, “the Jewish conversation has shifted”: “Jews…
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18 September 2025

People of Faith Speak Out (6)

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“Law enforcement officers respond to Mennonite Action participants singing outside the congressional office of Sen. Mark Warner in Washington, D.C.” — Mennonite Action
On September 9, my good friend Jack Wald (from 1970s seminary days) and I took a train to Washington, DC to deliver letters protesting US policy vis à vis Israel to our elected representatives. In particular, we were urging them to vote against sending any more weapons to Israel, as they have been using them in their brutal war in…
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22 August 2025

Who Said "Genocide"?

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[University buildings blown up] “Israel’s demolition of educational institutions, cultural objects in Gaza, is additional manifestation of genocide,” Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, February 16, 2024
I ended my last post by referring to the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem’s 2021 press release declaring that their nation was committing the crime of apartheid against the Palestinian population in the Occupied Territories. This was the subtitle, “A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: this is apartheid.” In fact, they were referring…
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10 August 2025

Jimmy Carter and Israeli Apartheid (4)

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Sadat, Carter, and Begin, 1978. In the closing hour of its virtual national conference Monday, the pro-Israel, pro-peace advocacy organization J Street presented its Tzedek v’Shalom, or Justice and Peace Award to former President Jimmy Carter. Accepting on behalf of the 96-year-old Carter was Paige Alexander, CEO of The Carter Center, based in Atlanta.
Most would have predicted that the first American president to call himself “born again” (hence, evangelical Protestant) would be a staunch defender of the state of Israel. As you will remember from my first post in this series, a large majority of evangelicals are “Christian Zionists,” and therefore unsympathetic to any call for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.…
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