The Patriarchal Vicar of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem (Al-Quds), Bishop William al-Shomali (William al-Shūmalī), refuted in a scholarly and theological manner the justification of Jewish claims to Palestine by saying that the Bible is not a land registry that grants land to one people over another. "The best response to Christian Zionism is to speak about justice," "the Bible does not accept the superiority of one people over another nor their oppression."