Aaron Bushnell was a US Air Force serviceman who self-immolated outside the US Embassy in Washington DC shouting “Free Palestine” (see the original breaking news post from @TaliaOTG on Twitter), on Sunday 25 February 2024, after explaining in a Twitch livestream (blurred video here) that he could no longer be “complicit in genocide”—among other connections with the Israeli military, the USAF acts as the United States’ FedEx for weapons deliveries to Israel.

Unlike the unknown woman who self-immolated outside the Israeli Consulate in Atlanta, GA, on 1 December 2023, Aaron Bushnell left behind his words in a livestream, people that knew who he was, and a will.

What follows is a collection of the most thoughtful reporting about Aaron Bushnell. Any other appropriate articles will added here.

Lyle Jeremy Rubin, writing in The Nation

Bushnell concedes his protest is extreme. And yet it pales in comparison to the extremism it is protesting. An extremism not just of everyday death and destruction, but one that qualifies as colonial domination.https://t.co/PdJRljiLVe

— The Nation (@thenation) March 1, 2024

Masha Gessen, writing in The New Yorker

In which this act is part of a tragic tradition. Aaron Bushnell’s Act of Political Despairhttps://t.co/zr0jYHYq0q

— masha gessen (@mashagessen) February 28, 2024

Ann Wright, writing on Common Dreams

Why Would Anyone Kill Themselves to Stop a War? On Aaron Bushnell and Others

David Rovics, “Song for Aaron Bushnell”