There is a strong case to be made that Aaron Bushnell’s immolation on February 25th of last year strongly influenced students across the country and injected courage into them, and the willingness to withstand arrest, reproof, expulsion and physical injury. Columbia students encamped at their university on April 17th, igniting the students of the country. They were burning with Bushnell’s holy fire.

If Greta and the Freedom Flotilla are murdered by Israel, this will light up the world with resistance. Greta is a universal figure, as Aaron has become. She is a moral leader of today, as are other rebels like her who resist the carbon death project to the point of being put in prison for years. Such as Roger Hallam and Indigo Rumblelow, cofounders of Just Stop Oil in the UK. Roger is serving 4 years in prison for promoting civil resistance on a Zoom call. Indigo is serving 2.5 years for planning to glue herself with others to the runway at Heathrow Airport demanding an end to oil and gas licenses, a demand which has since become law.

Or like the Suffragettes. Some Suffragettes starved themselves to death for their human rights. Emily Davison threw herself in front of King George V’s horse and was trampled to death.  It can’t be denied that these acts significantly moved the needle and inspired further resistance, eventually changing the law and society in the West as far as gender equality goes.

I’m not saying I want anyone to die or be sent to prison: I’m saying that only through many people doing things which risk the possibility of being hated or put in prison or being killed or otherwise seriously harmed will we have the ability to make the changes needed to end this genocide and prevent the next 3,600 from happening. One of the reasons MLK Jr is still seen as a hero by nearly every segment of society and is arguably the most celebrated man in the history of the nation, is that we know he was so radical and so powerful in waging peace that he was murdered for it.

At bottom, positive change for society requires sacrifice. Those who rule us have never given up their power without enormous sacrifice from the lower classes using resistance. Those who sacrifice the most, giving up their freedom and lives even, become immortalized in the hearts and minds of others. They become the saints of history, and wage wars of peace from beyond the grave.

If Greta and the rest of the the Freedom Flotilla crew are murdered by Israel, the world will explode