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被劫持的悲剧——西方世界与中东冲突的选择性道德观(中文/English)



7/02/2025

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编者:2023年10月7日,哈马斯发动袭击,引爆了加沙战争。然而,西方社会对以色列的谴责远超对哈马斯暴行的批判,并贴上“种族灭绝”标签。这与对叙利亚内战的冷漠形成鲜明对比,暴露出一种选择性道德观。

若真为反对“种族灭绝”,叙利亚的惨况早已震动世界。对以色列-巴勒斯坦冲突的执念,更多投射了观者对西方权力、资本主义、民族主义的幻灭,甚至是对犹太人的偏见。

最终,这场悲剧中的“死亡”成了货币,但只有“某些死亡”才被赋予价值。叙利亚、维吾尔、罗兴亚人的死亡“不方便”,而巴勒斯坦人的死亡,只要能归咎于以色列,便是“完美”的。这解释了为何埃及、阿萨德、伊朗等关键角色鲜少被谴责。

这并非声援巴勒斯坦人,而是劫持其悲剧,服务于其他政治议程。这是一种被意识形态和社媒塑造的“关心”,让抗议者借由愤怒自我感觉良好。在“美德经济”中,加沙“有利可图”,叙利亚却不然。因此,新的战场不仅在加沙,还在人类的心中。

翻译帖子取自张平X @pingzhang632,英文稿取自 Aimen Dean X @AimenDean,
标题“被劫持的悲剧——西方世界与中东冲突的选择性道德观”取自编者。对华援助协会。

全文:

2023年10月7日,哈马斯,这个在加沙统治了17年的威权、伊朗支持的民兵组织,发动了一场精心策划的大屠杀。他们杀害了1200名平民,绑架了250名人质。他们完全清楚此举将引发毁灭性的报复,而结果也确实如此。一场残酷的城市战争爆发,随后已有数万人丧生,其中许多是平民,也有许多是武装分子。这场战争是可怕的、悲剧性的,没错,它完全是可以避免的。

然而,仅仅几天之后,数十万人的队伍就在西方城市街头游行,他们并非为了谴责引发这一切的大屠杀,也没有去谴责使用平民作为人体盾牌的威权民兵组织,而是要求停止这场他们立刻贴上“种族灭绝”标签的战争。

到2025年5月中旬,伦敦已经出现至少27次声援加沙的大规模游行,其中一次人数超过一百万人。

相比之下,在叙利亚内战最黑暗的岁月里,当阿萨德使用化学武器、桶炸弹、围困战和饥饿战来镇压本国民众时,伦敦规模最大的叙利亚相关抗议活动,人数最高峰仅有900人,大多数抗议只有几十人。

这种对比揭示了一些令人极度不适的真相。

这不仅仅是数字的问题,更是选择性的问题,以及这种选择性所揭示的真相。

叙利亚:

•65万人死亡

•1400万人流离失所

•10万人在萨德纳亚监狱被处决

•15万人失踪

•通过饥饿、围困和沙林毒气实施的种族灭绝


然而,没有大规模游行,没有持续不断的抗议,没有每周刷屏的话题标签,没有人要求联合国或国际刑事法院“立即行动,否则如何如何”。

为什么?

因为这并不是真的关于“种族灭绝”。如果真是为了反对种族灭绝,单单叙利亚就足以震动整个世界。

这其实是关于别的东西。

我们所看到的,并非“声援”,而是一种错位的道德执念。以色列-巴勒斯坦冲突已成为一块象征性的画布,被用来投射各种幻灭感、负罪感和愤怒。它与地面上的事实关系不大,更多反映了这场冲突在观者心中的象征意义。

对于激进左翼来说,以色列是他们所厌恶一切事物的代理符号:西方权力、资本主义、民族主义、军事力量,以及在许多情况下,是犹太人本身。

对于伊斯兰主义者来说,以色列代表着一种神学上的破裂,是一个他们认为不该存在的国家。

对于无聊且长期泡在网上的人来说,它是一个能够带来身份认同、归属感和人生目的的“事业”。

其结果便是对以色列及其被感知到的“罪行”的情感执念。这不是对人类苦难的原则性立场,而是一种仪式化的表演,将道德上的愤怒精准地投射到单一对象身上,无视更广泛的背景。

而这种执念需要“死者”作为牺牲品——不是为了同情,而是为了自我肯定。死亡成为他们证明世界不公、体制必须被推翻、抗议者站在正义一方的“证据”。

因此,死亡成为了货币,但只有“某些死亡”才被赋予完整价值。叙利亚人的死亡在地缘政治上是不方便的,维吾尔人的死亡在经济上令人尴尬,罗兴亚人的死亡在地理上过于遥远,但只要能够将责任归咎于以色列,巴勒斯坦人的死亡便是“完美”的。

这就是为什么封锁加沙边境并拒绝接收难民的埃及几乎从未被提及;

这就是为什么公开受到哈马斯领导人辛瓦尔(Yahya Sinwar)赞扬的阿萨德,在这些圈子里从未被追责;

这就是为什么同时资助和武装阿萨德与哈马斯的伊朗,始终只是阴影中的次要角色。

我们并没有看到“对巴勒斯坦人的声援”,我们看到的,是有人劫持了巴勒斯坦人的悲剧,为的是服务于完全不同的政治议程——这个议程并不真正关心和平或正义,而是致力于清洗西方自身真实或想象出来的“罪恶”。

问题并不在于这些抗议者不关心,而是他们被“意识形态、社交媒体、部落主义”训练得只能以极其特定、狭隘且受限的方式去关心:

一种能取悦他们身份认同的“关心”,

一种能让他们相信自己是善良的“关心”——因为他们愤怒。

而在这种美德经济中,加沙是“有利可图”的,叙利亚却不是。


On October 7, 2023, Hamas, an authoritarian, Iranian-backed militia that has ruled Gaza for 17 years, launched a carefully planned massacre. It killed 1,200 civilians, and took 250 hostages. It did so with full knowledge that such a move would trigger devastating retaliation. And it did. A brutal, urban war erupted. Tens of thousands have since died, many of them civilians, many of them militants. The war was horrific, tragic, and yes, entirely avoidable.

And yet, within days, hundreds of thousands marched across Western cities, not to denounce the massacre that sparked it all, nor to condemn the authoritarian militia responsible for using civilians as human shields, but to demand an end to what they instantly branded genocide.

By mid-May 2025, London had seen at least 27 mass marches in solidarity with Gaza. One of them numbered over a million people.

In contrast, during the darkest years of the Syrian civil war, when Assad used chemical weapons, barrel bombs, siege warfare, and starvation to subdue his population, London’s largest Syria-related protest peaked at 900 people. Most saw a few dozen.

That contrast tells us something deeply uncomfortable.

It’s not just about numbers. It’s about selectivity, and what it reveals.

Syria:

•650,000 dead

•14 million displaced

•100,000 executed in Sadnaya prison

•150,000 missing

•Genocide by starvation, siege, and sarin gas


And yet, no mass marches. No relentless protests. No weekly hashtags. No demands that the UN or the ICC act “now or else.”

Why?

Because this isn’t about genocide. If it were, Syria alone would have moved the Earth.

This is about something else.

What we are seeing is not solidarity - but a displaced moral fixation. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become a symbolic canvas onto which all manner of disillusionment, guilt, and anger are projected. It is less about the facts on the ground and more about what the conflict represents.

To the radical left, Israel is a proxy for everything they despise: Western power, capitalism, nationalism, military strength, and in many cases, Jews themselves.

To the Islamists, it is the embodiment of a theological rupture, a state they believe should not exist.

To the bored and chronically online, it is a cause that offers identity, belonging, and purpose.

The result is an emotional obsession with Israel and its perceived sins. Not a principled stand against human suffering, but a ritualized spectacle where moral outrage is directed surgically at a single actor, regardless of the broader context.

And this obsession demands casualties - not for empathy, but for affirmation. The dead become evidence that the world is unjust, that the system must be torn down, that the protestor is on the side of the righteous.

Thus, death becomes currency, and only some deaths are accepted at full value. Syrian deaths are geopolitically inconvenient. Uyghur deaths are economically awkward. Rohingya deaths are logistically distant. But Palestinian deaths - so long as Israel can be blamed - are perfect.

It is why Egypt, which has sealed its border with Gaza and refused to accept refugees, is barely mentioned.

It is why Assad, praised openly by Hamas leaders like Yahya Sinwar, is never held to account in these circles.

It is why Iran, the primary funder and arms supplier of both Assad and Hamas, remains a shadowy afterthought.

We are not witnessing solidarity with Palestinians. We are witnessing a hijacking of their tragedy to service a very different political agenda - one that is less interested in peace or justice, and more interested in purging the West of its sins, real or imagined.

It’s not that these protestors don’t care. It’s that they’ve been trained - by ideology, by social media, by tribalism - to care in highly specific, narrowly sanctioned ways.

Care that flatters their identity.

Care that tells them they are good - because they are angry.

And in that economy of virtue, Gaza is profitable. Syria is not.