Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation in protest of US funding for Israel’s actions in Gaza has ignited a national call for ceasefire and led to vigils across the country.
On Sunday, February 25, 25-year-old active duty member of the United States Air Force Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in the US capital of Washington, DC, in a one-airman revolt against the US-backed slaughter currently being perpetrated by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip.
Over the past 143 days, Israel has killed nearly 30,000 Palestinians in the besieged coastal enclave. In video footage recorded prior to and during his self-immolation, Bushnell states that he will “no longer be complicit in genocide” and that he is “about to engage in an extreme act of protest – but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonisers is not extreme at all”.
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What did he think the USAF DOES? Drop twinkies?
He had orders to go to Isreal don’t leave that detail out its a key argument to credit his sanity
That is my understanding… He was facing some unethical orders.
The innocent young man sacrificed himself. May Allah ﷻ forgive him. May Allah ﷻ give patience to his family and friends. I hope the world will open its eyes. God forbid, more people can react the same way
He probably had some sort of mental issues.
Yeah the USA is sick
netenyahus brother was killed from uganda but doing revenge on innocent people , come to Uganda and do that nonsense.
This human angel had a good conscience and true humanity.
He has sent an influential message to all of humanity, especially to the Western world, that what is happening in Gaza is a genocide which is unacceptable according to all human principles, religions and customs. So, Israel should not be supported in order to continue these crimes, but rather any free and honorable human being must stand in solidarity with innocent children and women in Gaza that have been killed by bombing, hunger, and siege. Also, everyone must seriously participate in the daily protests to put strong pressure on governments to stop the fire and lift the siege on the people of Gaza.
I am very sad and in pain for this human angel who sacrificed himself to remind us of our forgotten humanity.
*Thanks to him very much. We will never forget him and we will pray for him and ask God to have mercy on his pure soul, forgive his sins and make him eternal in the bliss of heaven with the saints and righteous people .. Amen.*
I’m a Jewish anti-Zionist and was sent through the Jewish private education system in North America. I was indoctrinated and propagandized until I was 18 about how the only way to be a “true Jew” is to be Zionist and acknowledge that Israel is the only moral beacon in the world surrounded by savages. Never even heard of the Naqba until I was in my late teens.
Thankfully I broke free from the propaganda.
There is a massive Jewish community that support a free Palestine and equal rights, but Zionists try to suppress them. Anti-Zionism is not anti-semitism, but making it seem that way lets Israel keep the propaganda & fear mongering alive to justify their actions.
The unfortunate reality is most Zionists, whether Jewish or Evangelical Christian, are conditioned to think that all this oppression is justified since “all Arabs/Palestinians are bloodthirsty animals who will kill all the Jews if they aren’t kept in line”. It’s horrific and impossible to speak with logic and reason to some of these people who are so dead-set in their racism which the Israeli/Hasbara propaganda system has planted in them since childhood.
USA Israel are equal for genocide killing innocent civilians children in Palestine but not all usa people u can see their some people with humanity n heart I really pity for him 😢
Americans for God sake please stop electing ZIONIST as your political leaders…35000 PALESTINIANS blood in your hands
God respite not neglect
What to do?
The equation is this man’s love for humanity and justice in life prevailed over his love for life in which there is neither justice nor humanity.
Aaron was an angel and the bravest person. May he forever live in our hearts as our fight towards liberation for all continues
It is possible that he was facing orders that were not ethical as well.
He is definitely ill. Barboza, are you going to set yourself a blaze? No? Do you think like “other people” as you say he did? Then if you’re not ill and you’re tired of what’s going on in Gaza; What is the difference of his mental state from yours?
He greatest human in the world 🌎
A very STUPID Hammas supporting man!
Rest in peace Aaron Bushnell…… Thank you for your sacrifice to the suffering of the people of Palestine….. My condelences to the family…… May God be with u…… ur sacrificed will not go down in vain……. 😢😢😢
Aaron Bushnell has millions that agree with him in the US and hundreds of millions around the world.
Listen up politicians. Your constituents are calling you on the redress of grievances.
His friend said us troops are fighting in Gaza.. Dead soldier was in intelligence wing.. They ( u.s. ) are lying to the world.
,Word free Congo, free Palestine, free Haiti. Give them back their satanic religion. Their rules based order, their democracy. Its all lies.
One of the most shameful governments on planet Earth is the American government, of which almost everyone has long officially pledged allegiance to Israel. According to the 2010 report, “Nearly 300 members of Congress have signed on to a declaration reaffirming their commitment to the unbreakable bond that exists between the U.S. and the state of Israel” (“U.S.-Israel Bond” – Natasha Mozgavaya, Ha’aretz, in a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The article was removed from the web page of Ha’aretz, but is still referenced on the page of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs – Friday, March 26, 2010). People, think about this and decide for yourself: can you trust a government that pledges allegiance to another country and does nothing for its people. Americans, wake up.
According to one of Aarons close friends his position in the Air Force allowed him access to documents detailing the role of American forces – including ground troops as well as Special Forces – in Gaza.
Animals never commit suicide humans do
⚖Al Quran: Surah 81. At-Takwir
8. And when the (infant) female buried alive shall be questioned.
9. For what sin/offense she was killed?
10. And when the written pages of deeds of every person shall be laid open…
The media and the government will now try to declare that Aaron was mentally unstable, belonged to a cult, etc. They will never acknowledge that he was a brave man and that he was/is right for what he stood up.
Israel has all the right to be human, but they choose not to be
Instead of doing this to himself im sure he could have just gone to gaza and Palestinians would have done it for him. He wouldn’t have even had to ask.
This is how war affect poeple
Marching to Tell Aviv
a very brainwashed individual.
I feel no remorse for Palestine and the Muslim people want to do to everybody in this world
FILM DOESNT START COMMENTS ON BLACK SCREEN YOUTUBE AT IT AGAIN
The whole of the UK press is silent on this story.
what a horrible way to die
ohm mani padme hum
ill society led him to sacrifice himself to tell the dead conscience of the world to stop slaughtering voiceless people. He did not see the purpose of life when humanistic values are mocked by greedy corporations
Don’t kill yourself but fight
No US government officials but LIERS.
Education is very much needed for the westerners and westerners media.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸 stop the genocide!
RIP MY BROTHER.
THIS MAN IS SAINT NOT THE POPE BUT THIS MAN
The president is aware? Lies more lies!
He died because he was in senses against so many thousands are silents 😢😢😢
The news always claims protests are small. It sn’t extreme to sacrifice yourself to stop the brutal murder of tens of thousand He is brave and He is a martyr and forever beloved . Palestine will be free whether you Zionists own the Senate, Congress, Cabinet , and the judicial system through the ADL
Look how fast she blinks when describing the situation. Blinking repeatedly like that indicates a person is lying.
This is the dumbest most cowardice way to express your feelings
Im so worry my brother I love you brother I don’t know but i Dua for you Allah give you to jannathul firdows I cannot control my 😭😭
Bless his soul ooh Jesus allow him into heaven please God protect his soul Lord ❤❤❤❤
Why didn’t the authorities save him??? He was in public,they could have saved him,why didn’t they,heartbreaking
YouTube put a link to a suicide hotline. YouTube makes me sick.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Free palestina 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
If Bushnell was mentally ill as WP claimed, it would be scary the us government let a crazy person work as a cyber defense operation specialist. That means the security clearance failed big time.😅
Rip
Free Free Free Palestinians
That spokeswoman is the very definition of having no shame and doing the devil’s bidding. MLK Jr did not die for this.
Long Live The King
Why are you repeatedly reporting on this? America isn’t even talking about this anymore.
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Why one dollar pyramid one eye jews sign is on American currency
Boycott this illuminati agenda , this one world order reform
Under this video there is an add that is saying for suicide please call #****. Wow so basically the media is claiming that this was a mental health issue wow 👏.
FREE FREE PALESTINE!!!!!!!!!!
Small protests…liar!
Stop making it a mental health issue and stop Aaron message, “Free free Palestine “
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Descansa en Paz Aaron Bushell 🤍 Sabias lo que venía 😢
What this young man did to himself is not going to change anything on this war,the only thing he did was created pain for hes family
What is the airforce investgating, they just need to look at Israeal
FREE PALESTINE!
The sheer amount of commitment displayed by this young man… moving beyond measure.
This is not the first time something like this happened in the US.
In 2006, a man named Malachi Ritscher self-immolated on Chicago’s Kennedy Expressway as a sign of protest against the war in Iraq.
“Here is the statement I want to make: if I am required to pay for your barbaric war, I choose not to live in your world. I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent civilians, who did nothing to threaten our country,” he wrote in his suicide note. “… If one death can atone for anything, in any small way, to say to the world: I apologize for what we have done to you, I am ashamed for the mayhem and turmoil caused by my country.”
May He Rest In Paradise
♥️
Netanyahu is devil 👿 the enemy of humanity
May God have mercy upon him.
No more our hard working tax money for Genocide. Stop funding to terrorist apartheid Israel.
Free free 🇵🇸
May God send him in Heaven. RIP.
The whole world wants ceasefire but not Biden . Shame
usa is a terrorist nation
He told his friend he recieved information of a US military operation in palestine the day before this..
I don’t think that he was ill in fact what Israel does makes everyone ill .
😢😢😢😢😢😢
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
YouTube blocks this report ! Criminal acts
being normal at this level of oppression towards humanity IS ILL.
Stop paying taxes protest free Palestine
Free Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
WOKE YouTube deleting comments that might ‘offend’ Hamxx lovers.
Check that young man for secret jihad conversion. What a shame to US military and government.
Aaron must have been secretly initiated into jihadism
The media tried to cover it up but he made a difference; the fact the White House is taking press coverage over it. Stop funding IDF, I’ll change my vote from Biden to uncommitted in the real election this fall if nothing change.
U will rest in peace.. The man
We will not forget you Aron
Bushnell
Jews of Israel are truly evil and we are helping.
Lupita is just 🤮
Why can’t I watch this video?????
Anybody bring marshmallows?
Comment for Palestinian
May Allah grant Jannah to this true soul. Really feel terrible to see him to take this step to raise awareness.
Condolences to the family of Aaron,🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
RIP brother😓🌹 Our prayers are always with u n your family 😒
Brothers and sisters as UNRWA runs out of funding less help reaches out Palestinian brothers and sisters, let’s join forces and donate to UNRWA and spread the word to as many people as possible.
Civilian ‘Disobediance’ is a word used by tyrants. Stop paying taxes. As long as you are willing to permit your tax dollars to be taken, you are all complicit in war ceimes and crimes against humanity. Show the government you really mean business in regards to your protests by withholding your tax dollars.
AARON BUSHNELL, I will always remember you sir!
Aaron Bushnell is a Real Hero ❤❤❤❤❤ May Allah Forgive Him and Grant him Janatul Firdows Ya Rab 🤲🤲🤲🤲♥️♥️♥️
Free Free Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸