Iran to Europe: Learn from Nazi experience after Ben-Gvir’s humiliation of humanitarian activists
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman has called on European nations to learn from the Nazi era, warning that history's harsh lesson will repeat itself if the West continues to remain silent in the face of Israel’s systematic humiliation of humanitarian activists seeking to break the siege of Gaza.
In a post on X on Thursday, Esmaeil Baghaei described the images of Israeli minister of so-called internal security Itamar Ben-Gvir at Ashdod Port personally humiliating handcuffed humanitarian activists—many of them European citizens—as "profoundly shocking."
“They evoke the darkest echoes of history— moments when a regime, long protected from accountability, comes to see itself as exceptional, untouchable, and above the law,” he noted.
Baghaei recalled that in the 1930s, Europe comforted itself with the illusion that it could remain silent and immune in the face of systematic degradation of human dignity, international law, and basic moral principles without ever paying a price.
"History delivered a brutal lesson," he said, adding that the normalization of lawlessness and atrocity never remains confined to its original target.
The spokesman noted that today's real danger extends beyond certain conduct by an Israeli official.
"The deeper issue lies in the complicit silence, passive acceptance, and institutionalized inaction vis-à-vis occupation, apartheid, and genocide that have granted such policies and behavior an appearance of normalcy, continuity, and growing audacity," he wrote.
Baghaei warned that if the West continues to widen the gap between its proclaimed core values and its actual conduct, it will once again have to learn history's harsh lesson.
"Endless impunity does not moderate lawlessness — it normalizes atrocity and emboldens its perpetrators," he said further.
The Global Flotilla of al-Sumoud announced on Tuesday that Israel has confiscated all 50 ships carrying activists and humanitarian aid to Palestinians. The flotilla included 428 activists from 44 countries and had set sail from Marmaris, Turkey.
Ben-Gvir released a humiliating video showing the abduction of al-Sumoud activists who were apprehended in international waters, forced to their knees with their hands bound.
The abductees of the humanitarian flotilla aimed at breaking the siege of Gaza were transferred to Ashdod port after their ships were seized in the international waters of the Mediterranean Sea.
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