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西方认为反犹太主义是比种族灭绝更严重的问题
https://johnmenadue.com/the-west- believe-antisemitism-is-a-more-egregious-problem-than-genocide/
作者：亨利·雷诺兹 2024年5月10日 亨利·雷诺兹是一位著名的澳大利亚历史学家。
以色列对加沙的种族灭绝袭击导致西方权威的丧失，这只会加速一代人以来已经发生的变化。这当然是巧合。
随着澳大利亚国庆日结束，国际法院 (ICJ) 的17名法官正准备对2023年12月29日提交给国际法院的南非针对以色列的种族灭绝案做出初步回应。
南非作为全球南方的主要成员和金砖国家经济集团的创始成员采取了这一行动。 三十个国家支持此案。 只有爱尔兰和斯洛文尼亚这两个欧洲国家加入了来自南半球各地的 28 个国家的行列。
法院在某些问题上以 16 比 1 的多数票、在其他问题上以 15 比 2 的多数票裁定南非胜诉，认为有理由认为巴勒斯坦人应该受到保护，“免遭种族灭绝行为”，但法院没有同意。 南非要求停火，但它规定了以色列“根据其在《种族灭绝公约》下的义务”必须满足的一系列条件。 防止实施《公约》所禁止的行为，特别是造成严重身体或精神伤害的杀戮，或故意造成生活条件，从而造成全部或部分人口的物质毁灭。
这些临时措施对以色列具有法律约束力，但以色列却无视这些措施，大规模杀戮、深重痛苦和物质破坏仍在继续。 世界其他地方都惊恐地看着。 尽管西方世界国家没有像内塔尼亚胡那样声称国际法院是“哈马斯的合法机构”，但他们对此不屑一顾。 美国领导人宣称他们看不到任何种族灭绝的证据，南非的案件毫无根据。 与澳大利亚一样，其他国家完全忽视了所发生的事情，尽管事情的严重性。 在我们的案件中，没有任何官方反应，没有司法部长的法律简报，也没有政府任何人使用种族灭绝这个词。 这显然是一个有纪律的回避案例。
但并非只有西方政府故意精心设计自己的语言和外交手段，以保护以色列免受世界各地的愤怒，用精心设计的诡辩辩称反犹太主义是一个比种族灭绝更严重的问题。 西方媒体同样难辞其咎。 外部调查和内部泄露都讲述了同样的故事。 为了捍卫以色列本身和其他地方犹太复国主义者的情感，有人故意歪曲新闻。 这也适用于自由主义知识分子的伟大堡垒——《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、《卫报》、BBC 和 ABC。 现在，随着学生运动的兴起，美国最著名的大学也以完全相同的方式派遣防暴警察镇压学生运动，然后将由此产生的暴力和骚乱归咎于受害者。
代价是什么？ 以色列啦啦队中的任何一个人是否估计过西方主要大国及其小阵营追随者将遭受灾难性的道德权威丧失？ 谁会再次容忍澳大利亚领导人在世界各地宣扬的关于“基于国际规则的秩序”的令人厌烦的说教。 还有一些关于人权的说教，以及西方民主国家是值得钦佩和效仿的典范的推论。 也许最具破坏性的方面是，美国和欧洲主要大国已被证明是言行不一的彻头彻尾的伪君子。 只要看看以色列，就会发现，自1948年建国以来，它实际上无视国际法，逃避无数联合国声明。这是黄外交部长称之为“坚定朋友”的国家，我们为之提供“坚定支持”。 大约一周前，中国外交部发言人林健提到加沙城希法医院发现乱葬坑。 据我们所知，我们的主流媒体没有报道这一事件，澳大利亚政府中的任何人也没有发表评论。 他观察到，加沙大片地区现在已成为废墟，超过一百万平民“在死亡的边缘绝望地挣扎”，这种情况发生在 21 世纪，这一事实“是对人类道德良知的侮辱”。 并践踏了国际正义最基本的方面。”
根据圣经，这一说法比澳大利亚评论员发出的谨慎的狡猾言论更接近全球舆论。
以色列对加沙的种族灭绝袭击导致西方权威的丧失，这只会加速一代人以来已经发生的变化。 最新的非殖民化浪潮普遍对欧洲帝国主义的历史进行了重新解读，分析了西方崛起的原因，并将注意力集中在对外部世界资源的掠夺、奴隶制的作用和盗窃土著土地。要求赔偿的呼声越来越高。 对旧帝国权力的尊重正在消失。新加坡知识界领袖基肖尔·马凯硕 (Kishore Mahbubani) 观察这一过程已有一段时间了，他去年12月在伦敦《金融时报》上撰文称："西方赢得了其他国家的想象力和尊重，这已不是什么秘密。" 几个世纪以来的世界。然而，一个秘密是，西方现在正在失去这种尊重，因为它正在数十亿人的心中默默地、无形地发生。
正是在这里，从美国蔓延开来的校园叛乱正在做着那些声名狼藉的西方政府、媒体和大学领导人不可能完成的工作。他们正在捍卫人权和其他原则，而这些原则因支持以色列对加沙的灾难性围困而被破坏。 他们向世界其他地区暗示救赎是可能的。
It was a coincidence of course.
As Australia Day came to an end the seventeen judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) were preparing to deliver their preliminary response to the South African genocide case against Israel presented to the Court on the 29th of December 2023.
South Africa had taken this action as a leading member of the Global South and a founding member of the BRICS economic block. Thirty countries supported the case. Only two European states, Ireland and Slovenia, joined the twenty eight countries from all parts of the Global South.
By a very large majority of 16 to 1 on some points and 15 to 2 on others the Court found for South Africa, accepting that there was a plausible case that the Palestinians should be protected ‘from acts of genocide.’ The Court did not accede to the South African request for a demand for a ceasefire but it set out a series of conditions that Israel was required to meet ‘in accordance with its obligations under the genocide Convention.’ It was ordered to ‘take all measures within its power’ to prevent the commission of acts prohibited by the Convention, in particular killings, causing serious physical or mental harm or the deliberate infliction of conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of the population in whole or in part.’
These provisional measures were legally binding on Israel, which simply ignored them and the mass killing, profound suffering and physical destruction continued without pause. And the rest of the world looked on with horror. While the countries of the Western World did not go as far as Netanyahu in claiming that the ICJ was acting as ‘the legal arm of Hamas’ they were dismissive. The American leadership declared that they could not see any evidence of genocide and that the South African case was meritless. Like Australia, other countries simple ignored what had happened, its gravity notwithstanding. In our case there has been no official reaction, no legal briefing from the Attorney General and no known use of the word genocide by anyone in government. It clearly has been a case of well-disciplined avoidance.
But it’s not Western governments alone that have deliberately crafted their language and their diplomacy to protect Israel from the outrage felt around the world, arguing with well-rehearsed casuistry that antisemitism is a more egregious problem than genocide. The Western media is equally culpable. Surveys from outside and leaks from inside tell the same story. There has been a deliberate corruption of the news to defend Israel itself and the sensibility of Zionists everywhere else. And this applies to the great bastions of the liberal intellectual establishment—The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Guardian, the BBC and the ABC. And now with the rise of student activism the most prestigious American universities are behaving in exactly the same way sending in riot police to crush the student movement and then to blame the resulting violence and turmoil on the victims.
And at what cost? Do any of Israel’s cheer squad estimate the catastrophic loss of moral authority visited on the major western powers and their minor camp followers? Who will ever again tolerate those tiresome lectures about “the international rules based order“ which Australian leaders proclaim all around the world. There are also those homilies about human rights and the corollary that the Western democracies are the exemplary models to be admired and emulated. Perhaps the most damaging aspect of all is that America and the leading European powers have been shown to be arch hypocrites who don’t practice what they preach. One only has to look at Israel and observe that it has ignored international law and evaded innumerable U.N Declarations virtually since its foundation since 1948. This is the country that Foreign Minister Wong has called a ‘steadfast friend’ for whom we provide ‘immovable support.’ A week or so ago, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian referred to the discovery of mass graves at the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. As far as we can tell this event was not reported in our mainstream media nor commented by anyone in the Australian Government. He observed that vast swathes of Gaza were now left in rubble and more than a million civilians ‘were struggling in despair on the brink of death.’ The fact that this was happening in the 21st century was ‘an outrage to the moral conscience of humanity and tramples on the most fundamental aspect of international justice.’ While it is true that the devil can quote scripture, this statement is far closer to global opinion than the cautious weasel words which emanate from Australian commentators.
The loss of Western authority as a result of Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza has merely sped up changes already underway for a generation. The latest iteration of decolonisation has seen a pervasive re-interpretation of the history of European imperialism, which has analysed the reasons for the rise of the West and focussed attention on the pillage of the outer world’s resources, the role of slavery and the theft of indigenous land. Demands for reparation grow louder. Respect for the old Imperial powers is withering away. It is a process which has been observed for some time now by the Singaporean intellectual leader, Kishore Mahbubani, who wrote in London’s Financial Times in December last year that: ‘It’s no secret that the west captured the imagination and respect of the rest of the world for centuries. However, what is a secret—because it is happening silently and invisibly in the minds of billions—is that the west is now losing that respect.’
It is here that the campus rebellions that have spread from America are doing the work that would have been impossible for the discredited leaders of government, the media and the universities in the West. They are taking a stand for human rights and those other principles that have been corrupted by support for Israel’s catastrophic siege of Gaza. They have intimated to the rest of the world that redemption is possible.
