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A man was rushed to the hospital with severe burn wounds after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli consulate in Boston. Matt Nelson said in a video he uploaded to YouTube before arriving at the location that he was about to engage in an “extreme act of protest” due to “the ongoing genocide in Gaza.” Nelson’s identity and motive were not immediately apparent following the incident, which took place Wednesday evening. The video surfaced on Friday. The incident marks at least the third instance of self-immolation in the United States outside of an Israeli consulate or embassy in protest...

Nurit Baytch  @NuritBaytch Aaron Bushnell's Reddit account has been located, and it turns out he used genocidal rhetoric about Israelis ("there are no Israeli 'civilians'") and justified the Nova massacre: [old.reddit.com/user/acebush1/comments/?count=700&after=t1_k6kzlf7] (acebush1: same username as his original Twitch username) h/t @LupusErogare11:13 PM · Feb 27, 2024Duckie🎗️ @spaced_out_duck Aaron Bushnell’s radical ideology completely dehumanized the people of Israel, asserting that 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱. Meanwhile, he accused others of being brainwashed.1:13 AM · Feb 28, 2024Ella Travels (Ella Kenan) @EllaTravelsLove This is what Aaron Bushnell, the U.S. soldier who burned himself alive in front of the Israeli embassy in D.C....

If you had told the average person that an anarchist or an airman had set himself on fire to protest Israel’s campaign against Islamic terrorists, you would get two very different reactions. Unsurprisingly the media led with the data point most likely to produce a favorable reaction. And Aaron Bushnell cynically played the same game, wearing (the wrong) uniform to his Hamas suicide attempt rather than the Antifa red in which he had been previously photographed. The Washington Post gets around to admitting that Bushnell was an “anarchist”. Less than two weeks before Aaron Bushnell walked toward the gates of...

A member of the US Air Force was in critical condition after reportedly setting himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, Sunday afternoon. A video live streamed on Twitch appeared to show the Air Force member in uniform standing in front of the embassy gate and identifying himself as a member of the US Air Force, the New York Times and Washington Post said, citing officials who confirmed the footage matched the man in question. “I will no longer be complicit in genocide [in Gaza]. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” the...

A man has set himself on fire outside of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC. Authorities responded to the embassy around 1 p.m. on Sunday and found the man with burn injuries, the Metropolitan Police Department told DailyMail.com. He is in critical condition and was taken to the hospital by DC Fire and EMS with critical and life-threatening injuries.' A spokesperson from the Secret Service told DailyMail.com, 'The U.S. Secret Service, Uniformed Division responded to the 3400 Block of International Drive, NW, DC regarding an individual that was experiencing a possible medical / mental health emergency.' **SNIP** The Metropolitan Police...

"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," the airman said before lighting himself on fire. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The man who died after setting himself on fire outside of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. while yelling, "Free Palestine" has been identified as 25-year-old active-duty U.S. Air Force member Aaron Bushnell after harrowing footage of the live-streamed incident emerged on social media. Bushnell succumbed to his injuries from the protest after being hospitalized, a U.S. official said...

US Air Force member Aaron Bushnell has died from his injuries after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, an official confirmed on Monday. A US Air Force spokesperson confirmed to The Post that 25-year-old Bushnell died overnight to The Post, though she did not officially name him citing the ongoing notification of next of kin. Officials were still contacting family members Monday and will not officially announce his death until 24 hours after that is complete, the Air Force representative said. A man wearing a US Air Force uniform reportedly set himself on fire outside...