A few days ago, Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force, approached the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., and set himself on fire to protest what he said was the “genocide” in Gaza. He later died.
We can speculate whether or not Bushnell was mentally ill, but it is clear that he was brainwashed into believing the lie that Israel is in the wrong and Israel is committing genocide – to the point of taking his own life in this fashion.
Here are some more things you should know about him and his drastic act.
Bushnell was an anarchist who refused to condemn Hamas and mocked deceased US military personnel
According to journalist Andy Ngô, Bushnell was a supporter of the “Stop Cop City” movement and was connected to Antifa. He also mocked deceased US military personnel in online posts.
Ngô reports that his Reddit username was acebush1. And while it looks like most of his posts have now been removed, this Twitter/X user found a post of his demonstrating how he refused to condemn Hamas for October 7:
As a reminder, Hamas actually burned innocent people alive.
Hamas and other terror organizations welcomed his act
And speaking of Hamas, they and other terrorists jumped on the opportunity to use his death for propaganda purposes.
According to terror-supporters the Electronic Intifada:
Hamas published a statement mourning Bushnell and held the Biden administration fully accountable for his death, “due to its policy that supported the Nazi Zionist entity in its war of extermination against our Palestinian people.”
The group continued, “The heroic pilot, Aaron Bushnell, will remain immortal in the memory of our Palestinian people and the free people of the world, and a symbol of the spirit of global human solidarity with our people and their just cause.”
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a leftist political party and resistance organization, also mourned Bushnell’s death.
The group expressed its “full solidarity with the soldier’s family and with all American solidarity activists who took an honorable position and did not stop their struggle and pressure to stop the genocidal war on the Strip.”
The group added: “As tragic and painful as it may be, it is regarded as the highest sacrifice, accolade, and the most poignant message conveyed to the US administration.”
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Yemenis resistance organization Ansarallah mourned Bushnell and welcomed his act of protest. Mohammed Al-Bukhaiti, member of Ansarallah’s political bureau, described Bushnell as “a brave, noble and conscientious human being.”
Al-Bukhaiti said Bushnell’s message “has awakened the global conscience,” as he “proved that his conscience’s ability to bear the scenes of dead and wounded Palestinian children was weaker than his ability to bear the pain of fire burning his body.”
Hamas evoked the killing of Rachel Corrie, the young American woman who was crushed to death with an Israeli bulldozer as she tried to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian family home in Rafah, the southernmost area of the occupied Gaza Strip, in March 2003.
Rafah is “the same city that Bushnell paid with his life for putting pressure on his country’s government to prevent the criminal Zionist army from attacking it and committing massacres and violations there,” Hamas said.
Israel-haters also applauded what he did
Naturally, those on the wrong side of history and with broken moral compasses applauded Bushnell and his act:
Aaron Bushnell
— Roger Waters ✊ (@rogerwaters) February 27, 2024
All American Hero.
“Night after night going round and round my brain, his dream is driving me insane, we cannot just write off his final scene, take heed of the dream.”https://t.co/uN3sAbH8U6 pic.twitter.com/ixUA9HT4XH
Let us never forget the extraordinary courage and commitment of brother Aaron Bushnell who died for truth and justice! I pray for his precious loved ones! Let us rededicate ourselves to genuine solidarity with Palestinians undergoing genocidal attacks in real time!… pic.twitter.com/9F7dXOAYJt
— Cornel West (@CornelWest) February 26, 2024
Aaron Bushnell died because he had too much humanity for a world run by people who don’t have any https://t.co/9WcyjBUH0v
— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) February 27, 2024
One of the main reasons the self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell is having such an earthshaking impact on our society is because it's the single most profound act of sincerity that any of us have ever witnessed.
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) February 28, 2024
Reading by Tim Foley. pic.twitter.com/H45rCVgT0o
Aaron Bushnell, thank you for immortalising these words. pic.twitter.com/G5HhggqRhO
— ADAM (@AdameMedia) February 28, 2024
Ben Shapiro nails it:
There is something deeply sick about a civilization in which large swaths of people cheer a disturbed anarchist's self-immolation on behalf of a lie propagated by a terrorist group.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 27, 2024
pic.twitter.com/64pQNJ9JrO
Ariel Gold got eaten alive by her own for a rare truth bomb
Believe it or not, Israel-hating airhead Ariel Gold nailed it too
and got eaten by her own for it:
You would never see this from the pro-Israel side
Jew-hater (and one-time Ariel Gold co-panelist on Iran’s Press TV) Lucas Gage claims if one of us did a similar act to help free the hostages, we would applaud him even more than we have seen from the Israel-haters:
"If Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire and screamed 'Free the hostages! Free the hostages! Free the hostages!' they would build a shrine to him in the middle of Tel Aviv." pic.twitter.com/XcCqIDizB1
— Kat N Nerdvana (@KNerdvana) February 27, 2024
This is utter rubbish. Judaism values human life, and suicide goes against Jewish values for a start, so there would be no celebration of such an act were it to occur. Which it hasn’t and won’t.
