Demonstrators muffled the sounds of the Philadelphia Orchestra over the weekend in a protest of the company’s upcoming tour in Israel.

Rani Al-Hindi of Adalah-NY said it was “an honor” to be part of the Free Ahed Tamimi contingent at the march.

“Palestinian women have been fighting the cause against both patriarchy and colonialism and racism for decades,” Al-Hindi told The Indypendent. “They’re a great symbol of resistance, of courage.”

Riham Barghouti, a Palestinian-American activist attending the march, also with Adalah-NY, linked Tamimi’s cause to social justice fights in the United States and to the broader struggle for women’s liberation.

PEN America’s support for Tatour is significant not just to the hope that Tatour will be freed, but as a sign of the firm place that Palestinian rights have gained on the American left. Time was when PEN would have balked at such a bold support of a Palestinian artist who used the term martyr. PEN got funding from the Israeli government for its annual world voices literature festival. But earlier this year, under the steady pressure of Adalah-NY, PEN did not take the Israeli money.