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1/2 The evangelical power broker now controlling Gaza’s only aid lifeline
When Rev. Johnnie Moore Jr. was appointed executive chairman of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in June 2025, Palestinian advocates immediately recognised the cruel irony: a man who has spent years advocating for their displacement and denying their humanity now controls their access to food. This appointment represents more than administrative incompetence - it is the institutionalisation of anti-Palestinian hatred within humanitarian structures, placing Gaza’s survival in the hands of someone who fundamentally believes Palestinians deserve neither their homeland nor basic dignity.
Moore’s antipathy towards Palestinians has deep roots and disturbing consistency. In 2011, writing for Ynetnews following a bombing in Jerusalem, Moore penned an article titled “No Excuse for Brutality” that, according to Palestinian critics, was “one-sided and inflammatory, asserting that Palestinians are entirely to blame for the conflict.” This wasn’t the reflexive response of someone caught in tragedy’s immediate aftermath - it was a calculated articulation of eliminationist thinking that would define his approach to Palestinian suffering for over a decade.
The 2011 article revealed not just bias but a stunning ignorance of Palestinian existence that borders on the genocidal. Moore and his Liberty University students seemed entirely unaware that Palestinian Christians live throughout historic Palestine, treating Palestinians as a monolithic Muslim enemy rather than recognising the diverse communities that have called this land home for centuries. As one Palestinian critic noted, this displayed “a complete lack of knowledge of historical context, but more accurately, it revealed a deliberate erasure of Palestinian humanity from Moore’s worldview.
This erasure became policy advocacy under the Trump administration. Moore has consistently championed Trump’s plan to forcibly displace Gaza’s entire population, transforming their homeland into what Trump called a “Middle East Riviera” for wealthy tourists and developers. In February 2025, as Moore positioned himself for the GHF appointment, he tweeted his support for this ethnic cleansing scheme: “President Trump always sees war through the eyes of its human cost… The USA will take full responsibility for the future of Gaza.” The chilling subtext is clear: Palestinians have no future in Gaza under Moore’s vision.
Moore’s ideological commitment to Palestinian displacement creates grotesque conflicts of interest that make his humanitarian role fundamentally illegitimate. He sits on the board of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, a powerful organisation that promotes Jewish immigration to Palestine as the fulfilment of biblical prophecy. This theological commitment to Jewish settlement directly contradicts any claim to neutral humanitarian work. How can someone who believes God ordained Palestinian displacement provide impartial aid to Palestinians?
The answer, as Gaza’s mounting death toll demonstrates, is that he cannot and will not. Since Moore’s appointment, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has systematically destroyed the territory’s aid infrastructure, replacing over 400 international distribution points with just four Israeli-controlled sites. This isn’t logistical streamlining, it’s the deliberate creation of killing fields where Palestinians are forced to risk their lives for basic sustenance.
The results have been catastrophic for Palestinian civilians. Since 27 May 2025, over 1,054 Palestinian civilians have been killed and thousands more wounded whilst approaching Moore’s distribution hubs, fired upon by Israeli forces, GHF contractors, and armed gangs. These aren’t accidental casualties, they are the predictable result of Moore’s decision to concentrate vulnerable populations in Israeli-controlled zones where their lives hold no value.
Moore’s response to this mass killing reveals the depths of his anti-Palestinian hatred. Rather than expressing horror at the systematic slaughter of civilians seeking food, Moore has dismissed documented massacres as “fictional,” calling credible reports from the Red Cross and UN “lies spread by terrorists.” In a Fox News op-ed, Moore claimed there was “no violence at distribution sites” even as international observers documented daily killings. This is the erasure of Palestinian suffering from moral consideration.
The cruelty is deliberate and systematic. Moore’s operation has transformed hunger relief into a weapon of war, using controlled starvation to advance his vision of Palestinian elimination. Every Palestinian forced to risk death for a meal validates Moore’s belief that they don’t deserve to exist safely in their homeland. Every killing at his distribution sites moves Gaza closer to the depopulated “Riviera” of his dreams.
Moore’s anti-Palestinian ideology extends beyond policy into personal contempt. His historical writings reveal someone who sees Palestinians not as human beings deserving dignity, but as obstacles to divine prophecy and American imperial expansion. When he dismisses Palestinian Christians’ existence, ignores their historical presence, and advocates for their forced displacement, Moore reveals a worldview that simply cannot accommodate Palestinian humanity.
This ideological hatred manifests in operational decisions that maximise Palestinian suffering. Moore chose to eliminate hundreds of smaller, safer distribution points in favour of four large, militarised sites that require Palestinians to travel dangerous distances under Israeli fire. He chose to partner with private security contractors rather than established humanitarian organisations that prioritise civilian safety. These weren’t pragmatic decisions - they were ideological choices designed to make Palestinian survival as difficult and dangerous as possible.
The international community’s tolerance of Moore’s appointment represents a profound moral failure. Palestinian children are dying of starvation whilst the man controlling their food access actively advocates for their family’s deportation. Palestinian mothers risk sniper fire to feed their families whilst the man running aid distribution dismisses their deaths as propaganda. This isn’t humanitarian assistance - it’s state-sanctioned sadism dressed in evangelical rhetoric.
Moore’s extensive political network, cultivated through years as Trump’s evangelical operative, has insulated him from accountability. His meetings with Middle Eastern heads of state, his role on multiple pro-Israel boards, and his integration into Christian Zionist funding networks have created a web of influence that prioritises ideological objectives over Palestinian lives. When humanitarian aid becomes subordinated to prophecy fulfilment and ethnic cleansing, the very foundation of international humanitarian law collapses.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation under Moore’s leadership represents the weaponisation of charity against the Palestinian people. Every meal distributed comes with the implicit message that Palestinian presence in Gaza is temporary, that their survival depends on the goodwill of those who fundamentally reject their right to exist in their homeland. This psychological warfare, offering sustenance whilst advocating elimination, represents a particularly insidious form of colonial violence.
Moore’s appointment also reveals the broader complicity of evangelical Christianity in Palestinian suffering. His ability to seamlessly transition from advocating ethnic cleansing to controlling humanitarian aid demonstrates how Christian Zionist ideology has corrupted basic human compassion. When prophecy becomes more important than Palestinian children’s lives, when divine promises justify contemporary genocide, Christianity itself becomes a weapon against the vulnerable.
The operational reality of Moore’s “humanitarian” work exposes the lie at its foundation. His organisation operates under Israeli military protection, distributes aid only in Israeli-approved areas, and requires Palestinians to risk death for basic necessities. This is the management of a slow-motion genocide, carefully calibrated to appear humanitarian whilst maximising Palestinian suffering and displacement.
Palestinian communities understand what international observers refuse to acknowledge: Moore’s appointment represents the institutionalisation of their elimination within the structures supposedly designed to protect them. When the man controlling their children’s nutrition advocates for their deportation, when their access to medicine depends on someone who denies their right to exist, survival itself becomes an act of resistance against those claiming to offer salvation.
The tragic irony is that Moore presents himself as a champion of religious freedom whilst systematically denying Palestinian Christians the freedom to live safely in their ancestral homeland. His ignorance of Palestinian Christian communities in 2011 has evolved into active complicity in their displacement and death. Every Palestinian Christian family forced to flee Gaza validates Moore’s theological vision of a Palestine emptied of its indigenous people.
Moore’s control over Gaza’s humanitarian lifeline represents the ultimate perversion of aid work: using human desperation to advance the very policies that created that desperation. His ideological commitment to Palestinian displacement transforms every act of assistance into an instrument of elimination, every meal into a tool of colonial control. This isn’t humanitarian work, it’s the bureaucratisation of ethnic cleansing. 1 reply
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