On Sunday, a young American man in military uniform walked toward the gate of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC. Starting a livestream, he introduced himself.

My name is Aaron Bushnell. I am an active-duty member of the US Air Force, and I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest — but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.

The horrific footage shows the twenty-five-year-old Bushnell as he halts in front of the embassy, puts down his phone, douses himself in a flammable liquid, and sets himself alight.