For many people the current subjugation of the Palestinian people Is seen as acceptable because after all God is on the side of the Jews. But this occupation of the Palestinians includes complete segregation between Jew and Arab in the Palestinian territories. Jonathan sees this as underpinned by a theology of exclusivity and racism and calls for us to move to a theology of universalism and love. How do we move forward and how should Christians respond in their churches and with campaigning.
Jonathan Kuttab is a Palestinian human rights lawyer and activist.
He studied in the U.S. and is a member of the bar there. He came back to Israel/ Palestine, studied Hebrew and joined the Israeli Bar Association as well as the Palestinian one. He was a negotiator at the Cairo Peace Talks. He is on the board of Bethlehem Bible College, and is a close friend of writer and social justice advocate Ron Sider.
President Jimmy Carter quotes him as one of the voices that shows the way forward in his latest book Palestine: Peace not Apartheid. While Jonathan says: "I am a deeply committed Christian and that is what motivates all of my behaviour and action."
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