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They're protesting for a number of things, including things like divesting university funding from Israel to cutting US weapon shipments to Israel. Will the protests have a direct effect on Israel? No. They might have an indirect effect however.
Wasting thousands of dollars to turn their campuses into trashy tent-cities and ultimately accomplish nothing? They probably go to their parent's upper-class homes at night to sleep, and stop for artisanal coffees on their way back to protesting in the morning.
A lot of these universities, especially ones like Columbia, MIT, Yale, Cornell, Stanford and Harvard, are "rich people" universities. They'll survive.
Tbh I'm kinda surprised that we haven't had an increasing number of rich parents telling the schools to go fuck themselves because their silver-spooned babies are having their things trashed and finding themselves in jail.
Odd my tension levels are nominal. People have a right to protest and these kids are protesting. Sure I did that on the eve of the second Iraq war and well ok bad example. Point is they have a right to make some noise and they are.