Palestinian Journalist Blasted After Appearing to Complain About Not Being Able to Hijack Planes

A Palestinian journalist is facing heat after appearing to bemoan not being able to hijack planes.

On Monday, Mohammed El-Kurd, a Palestinian writer and The Nation’s Palestine correspondent, wrote on X, “You can’t protest peacefully. You can’t boycott. You can’t hunger strike.”

“You can’t hijack planes. You can’t block traffic. You can’t throw Molotovs. You can’t self-immolate. You can’t heckle politicians. You can’t march. You can’t riot. You can’t dissent,” he continued.

Finally, El-Kurd insisted, “You just can’t be.”

Several community notes were added to the post, including one which read, “In most current democratic states, acts like Molotov throwing and plane hijacking are not only unlawful but severely frowned upon.”

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The post comes after an active duty Air Force member died after he set himself on fire over the “genocide” in the Gaza Strip.

On Monday, the Metropolitan Police Department said 25-year-old airman, Aaron Bushnell after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C.

According to the Associated Press, Bushnell arrived outside the embassy around 1 p.m. on Sunday and started a live stream on Twitch.

He then reportedly lit himself on fire and was heard saying something about not being “complicit in genocide.”

The Air Force said in a statement, “The individual involved in yesterday’s incident succumbed to his injuries and passed away last night.”