Other NEU alumni posted messages on Huskies for a Free Palestine’s Instagram page. “As a Palestinian American Northeastern alum I am APPALLED to be associated with my alma mater,” wrote one supporter. “Your disciplinary charges are unjustified and targeted. I vow to never encourage another prospective student to consider NEU again.”

NEU administration’s response to the solidarity action on Jan. 10 was an intensified crackdown. Campus cops and administrators prowled the public green where the demonstration was taking place, demanding students show their IDs and refusing to let in activists, including members of Workers World Party Boston, who had shown up in support.

Defying the police, protestors chanted “Not another nickel, not another dime, no more money for Israel’s crimes!” and “In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians” in support of their comrades, with several waving Palestinian flags.