Aaron Bushnell, Who Burned Himself Alive, Cheered Murder of U.S. Soldiers

Cornel West praised Bushnell's "extraordinary courage and commitment", Roger Waters celebrated him as an "All-American Hero" and the media emphasized his military role. "Israel is a white supremacist, ethnonationalist, settler-colonial apartheid state. It has no right to exist," Bushnell argued. He claimed that all the Jews could be killed because "there are no Israeli 'civilians'" and that Israel was "the closest thing the world has to the Nazis". Exterminating Israelis "wouldn't be genocidal but actually perfectly reasonable, as Israelis are settler-colonizers" and described Hamas as an "anti-colonial resistance organization".

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