“I Will No Longer Be Complicit in Genocide”: U.S. Military Member Dies After Setting Himself on Fire in Protest

Aaron Bushnell: “I am an active-duty member of the United States Air Force, and I will no longer be complicit in 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.”

Authorities in Washington said Aaron Bushnell died after succumbing to his injuries.

In December, a protester with a Palestinian flag self-immolated outside the Israeli Consulate in Atlanta, Georgia.

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