Aaron Bushnell: What Would I Do?

Protesters outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., at the site where Aaron Bushnell, a U.S. airman, self-immolated on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024. Photo by Lauren Markoe

“Many of us like to ask ourselves, 

‘What would I do if I was 

alive during slavery? 

Or the Jim Crow south? 

Or apartheid? 

What would I do if my country 

was committing genocide?’ 

The answer is, you’re doing it. 

Right now.”

— Aaron Bushnell