Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. The young US Air Force officer was not dark-skinned, and did not utter a takbir that would make him affiliated with extremism and terrorism, as is the norm.

The narratives justifying foreign policies supporting the war of extermination targeting the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip were keen to circumvent it through elusive interpretations. The American media treated the incident with coldness to the point of ignoring it, but they were unable to continue to cover it up.