Jest to już trzecia osoba, która dokonała takiego aktu od października 2023 kiedy to ludobójstwo się zaczęło
Matt Nelson, an anti-war activist from Boston, self-immolated outside the Israeli consulate on September 11 in a protest against the ongoing conflict in Gaza and U.S. support for Israel.
— He is the third individual to self-immolate in the U.S. since October 2023 in protest of genocide against Palestinians.
In a video released shortly before his act, Nelson stated:
„My name is Matt Nelson and I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest. We are all culpable in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. We are slaves to capitalism and the military industrial complex. Most of us are too apathetic to care.
The protest I’m about to engage in is a call to our government to stop supplying Israel with the money and weapons it uses to imprison and murder innocent Palestinians, to pressure Israel to end the genocide in Gaza, and to support the ICC indictment of Benjamin Netanyahu and other members of the Israeli government.
A democracy is supposed to serve the will of the people, not the interests of the wealthy. Take the power back. Free Palestine” .