An enormous march in the range of 100,000 people took place in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 4, protesting against the killing in Gaza, demanding a ceasefire and calling for a Free Palestine. The “National March on Washington: Free Palestine!” had hundreds of sponsoring and endorsing organizations, the majority of which were Palestinian/Muslim/Arab-American, and included CODEPINK, ANSWER, and related left-wing organizations, as well as some small Jewish participation.
LaRouche movement organizers participating in the march reported that the rally was heavily Muslim with many families of three generations, and that it otherwise had significant leftist and “anti-war” groups participation as well, largely from youth and student layers.
Although many of the speeches were of the leftist, anti-Israel variety, chanting and riling people up emotionally without vision or significant content, the sheer size of the rally and the sense of awakening political activism dominated the event.
A particularly poignant speech was given by a man named Omar Suleiman, who spoke of a young boy with his same name who was recently shot and killed while riding his moped in the West Bank, which is not run by Hamas. He then brought up the case of the Palestinian boy in Chicago brutally murdered by his landlord, who had been incited by the hate-filled words of President Biden. Suleiman then said there is no difference between a Palestinian boy killed in Chicago, or in the West Bank, or in Gaza, but he only received calls of sympathy from local politicians about the Chicago boy.
BreakThrough News and Status Coup News were reporting a crowd of 100,000. A moderator looking at the crowd said it stretched all the way to the Capitol. Moderators said it was the largest rally in support of Palestine in U.S. history.
