U.S. airman dies after self-immolating outside Israeli embassy in protest of Israel-Hamas war

WASHINGTON (JTA) — A U.S. airman has died after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., where he shouted “Free Palestine!” in protest of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

The man, who wore military fatigues and identified himself as Aaron Bushnell in a video that circulated online, was an active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force from Texas. He filmed himself on Sunday afternoon walking toward the embassy, saying he “will no longer be complicit in genocide.”  The clip was uploaded to the gaming platform Twitch and has now been…