From the discourse blog:
On Sunday, Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force, went in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC. “I will no longer be complicit in genocide,” he said. “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.” Then he set himself on fire and yelled “Free Palestine.”
Bushnell has reportedly died from his injuries. He was 25.
Please read the full discourse blog at: https://www.discourseblog.com/p/aaron-bushnell-rip
Please, in addition, watch Kyle K’s segment on the matter on his Channel Secular Talk, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr1iXdMU7Y&rco=1
The act is not very desimmilar to Thích Quảng Đức’s protests of the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government of Ngô Đình Diệm, who was a tyrannical, staunch, Roman Catholic person.
-Thích Quảng Đức died by self-immolation at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963 at 65+ years in South Vietnam.
-Aaron Bushnell died by self-immolation at an Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, on 25 February 2024 at 25 years in the United States of America.
”Aaron Bushnell, 25, said in a video of the incident obtained by CNN that he would “no longer be complicit in genocide” and that his suffering was minimal compared to that of Palestinians as the humanitarian crisis persists in Gaza.”
SOURCES:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/25/politics/man-sets-himself-on-fire-israeli-embassy-washington-dc/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c
https://www.discourseblog.com/p/aaron-bushnell-rip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlJ1mukdvJI
by Robert Perreault