Matt Nelson
This transcript is of Matt's own video, posted to Youtube and reposted by BDS Boston to their Instagram.
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 call ourselves the greatest nation in history, yet we spend more on weapons of war than we do on educating our children, helping the homeless, ensuring all Americans have equal rights, and protecting the environment combined. 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. I urge any of you who are of sane mind to call your senators and representatives and demand they introduce and advance legislation to achieve these goals. If sitting lawmakers won't, vote for those who will. A democracy is supposed to serve the will of the people, not the interests of the wealthy. Take the power back. Free Palestine.
Matt set himself alight outside the "Israeli" consulate on Wednesday, September 11th. Last heard as of writing this, he is hospitalized in critical condition, though talk has spread that he has died. If he is to recover, may his recovery be swift and thorough so he may continue to fight. If he is to die, may he dance and sing and love and rest hereafter. Glory to the martyrs! Solidarity forever! Free Palestine!