Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
For the third time since Israel launched a war on Gaza for which it is currently on trial for genocide at the World Court, a person in the United States has set themself on fire to protest Israel 's killing of more than 41,000 Palestinians and U.
S. complicity in the slaughter. In an incident all but completely ignored by the U.S. corporate media, a man identified as Matt Nelson set himself alight near the Israeli Consulate in Boston at around 8:15 pm local time on Wednesday, September 11. 'My name is Matt Nelson and I'm about to engage in an extreme act of protest,' he said in a video first uploaded to YouTube on Wednesday. 'We are all culpable in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.' 'We are slaves to capitalism and the military-industrial complex. Most of us are too apathetic to care,' Nelson continued. 'The protest I'm about to engage in is a call to our government to stop supplying Israel with the money and weapons it uses to imprison and murder innocent Palestinians, to pressure Israel to end the genocide in Gaza, and to support the indictment of Benjamin Netanyahu and other members of the Israeli government.' 'A democracy is supposed to serve the will of the people, not the interests of the wealthy,' he added. 'Take the power back. Free Palestine.' According to NBC Boston, first responders confirmed a man suffered serious burn injuries. Nelson's current condition has not been reported. NBC Boston and other local media took flak from critics on social media, who noted that the outlets chose to report the incident's location as 'outside the Four Seasons Hotel' instead of by the Israeli Consulate. Nelson is the third person known to have self-immolated in Gaza-related protests in the United States since October. On December 1, a woman—whose identity remains unknown—carrying a Palestinian flag was hospitalized in critical condition after setting herself alight outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta. Police called it an 'act of extreme political protest.' Israeli Consul-General Anat Sultan-Dadon called it an act of 'hate and incitement toward Israel.' Then, in an incident that gained worldwide attention, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old active-duty U.S. airman, doused himself in an unknown accelerant, donned his service cap, and set himself ablaze in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. on February 25. Bushnell repeatedly screamed 'Free Palestine' as he burned. Secret Service officers quickly rushed to the scene, with at least one of them drawing his pistol and pointing it at the burning man while ordering him to 'get on the ground, you fucker.' As he screamed and writhed in agony, Bushnell managed one final, garbled, yet unmistakable 'free Palestine' as his body was engulfed in flames. He died later that day.
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