In a post on his X account on Thursday, Baqaei said, “The images of an Israeli regime’s minister at Ashdod Port personally humiliating handcuffed humanitarian activists from the ‘Aid to Gaza’ flotilla (many of them European citizens) are 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 added, “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 the most basic moral principles, without ever paying a price. History delivered a brutal lesson; the normalization of lawlessness and atrocity never remains confined to its original target.”
Baghaei underlined, “Today, the real danger extends far beyond certain conduct of an Israeli regime's official. The deeper issue lies in the complicit silence, passive acceptance, and institutionalized inaction vis-a-vis occupation, apartheid, and genocide that have granted such policies and behavior an appearance of normalcy, continuity, and growing audacity.”
“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.”
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