In his remarks, Fawaz Abusharkh, a leader of the Palestine House of New England, called for the liberation of Indigenous and oppressed people worldwide. He said: “Israel is digging their own grave by what they’re doing. Justice eventually is going to be who’s going to prevail. And that’s going to be us, all of us. Not just the people in Gaza. Not just the Palestinians. It’s the Indigenous people … from Turtle Island to Jerusalem. We are all united, and we are all going to be free!”

From Roxbury Crossing, the demonstrators took over the streets of downtown Boston as they marched to NEU’s campus, with many waving Palestinian flags. As they marched, protesters chanted: “Globalize the Intifada!”; “From the River to the Sea”; and “Northeastern, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide.” The march ended on Huntington Avenue, where protesters faced down the campus cops guarding NEU’s campus.

As a Huskies for a Free Palestine leader emphasized, the repression and persecution by Northeastern and other bourgeois institutions must not silence supporters of Palestinian liberation: “What matters right [now] is the movement at hand. What matters is sending collective demands.”

The demands highlighted by Huskies for a Free Palestine are: an immediate end to [the] genocidal war on Gaza; that the NEU administration drop the trumped-up charges against the three student activists; and the university’s complete divestment from the weapons and technologies companies supporting the Zionist state.

Addressing the racist NEU administrators and donors, the Huskies for a Free Palestine said: “You can try to silence, to defer, to suspend students. But you cannot suspend the movement! … We will remain loud. We will not be silent. We will not back down. … We will not be intimidated, and you should not be either. Join the movement! Free Palestine!”