Aaron Bushnell, a US airforce airman, died on Sunday just hours after lighting himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington to protest his country’s complicity in the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Bushnell’s action immediately evoked a long history of self-immolation as an act of extreme political protest, particularly in the “Global South”. On Sunday, 25 February, the 25-year-old American wore his military uniform as he appeared to livestream his self-immolation on Twitch. He yelled, “Free Palestine,” until he collapsed in front of policemen, who were pointing guns at his burning…