Sunday, 25-year-old Senior Airman Aaron Bushnell doused himself with gasoline outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, and set himself ablaze. He shouted “Free Palestine” as he was burning. Before killing himself, he prepared a will and set up a Twitch account to video the action. As he walked to the embassy gate, he read a prepared statement.
I am an active duty member of the United States Air Force. And I will no longer be complicit to genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest. But compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers—it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.
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