Remembering Aaron Bushnell: How He Inspired People in the Military to Question U.S. Empire

Remembering Aaron Bushnell: How He Inspired People in the Military to Question U.S. Empire

We remember Aaron Bushnell, the U.S. Air Force member who died last year in an act of protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. On a live-streamed video, Bushnell said he could not be “complicit in genocide” while the United States continued to support Israel’s war on Gaza; he then set himself on fire, screaming “Free Palestine” until he collapsed. Now just a year after Bushnell’s fatal self-immolation, we speak with an active-duty