Ralph Seliger and Saif Ammous have been arguing over Ammous's assertion that Americans wouldn't respond well if a rich Christian came over here and started to turn us into a Christian country with different sets of rights based on religion… Seliger criticized Ammous a few days ago; now Ammous is responding:
I will concentrate on one single question to make it harder for Seliger to continue avoiding answering me: If a Christian political party in America does to non-Christians exactly what Zionists did to Palestinians, would Seliger support it? After the non-Christian Americans are driven to their refugee camps in Canada, would Seliger support their right to return to America and reclaim their stolen property, or will he oppose it as he opposes the right of Palestinians to return to their homes?
Let's put this in more practical terms: My family is from the West Bank, near the green line, but we have land (a couple of miles outside our house) that was stolen by Israel in 1948. Does Seliger support my right to reclaim that land? No. Because I'm not Jewish and if all of us Palestinians return he won't have the racist theocracy of his trans-Atlantic dreams. But Seliger, of course, supports the right of someone who does NOT own that land and who has never lived in Palestine to travel there and be given that land by the state of Israel because they believe in the right god.
How very progressive of him.
Seliger can keep obfuscating all he likes, but he simply cannot deny the reality: It is racist and hypocritical to demand tolerance, freedom, equality, democracy and secularism in the place where he is in the minority, but support ethnic cleansing, discrimination and oppression where his group has the military upper-hand. It is that depraved. Seliger is no different from the Afghani American who fights for secularism and minority rights in America, but supports the Taliban's oppression and racism in Afghanistan.
