Used to be true. See countries affecting populations in foreign countries. Propaganda is not local.

I’m not sure it’s true that the Israeli government doesn’t care about American public opinion, since they do benefit from American military support, but let’s assume what you said is true.

Even if Americans protesting won’t stop the genocide, won’t end apartheid, I’d prefer that those atrocities are not committed with my tax dollars, with support from my government, in my name. The lesson learned from 9/11 shouldn’t have been “we need to enact regime change anywhere in the world where American interest are opposed”. It should have been “Americans better make sure they are OK with the things that their government is doing abroad”.

I’m not OK with it, I’m not willing to risk dying in a terrorist attack so that Gaza can be levelled with “made in America” munitions. I’m not willing to risk dying in a terrorist attack so that oil companies and other big business interests have friendly regimes to collude with in the region as they scam the people out of their resources and freedoms.

College protests have been a thing since Vietnam. Look up Kent State.

It wasn’t China that gave them the idea, it was history.

And it’s working. More and more people are sympathizing with Palestine the more the government overreacts to peaceful protests.

All the arrests happening are from people being encouraged on TikTok to become aggressive and angry towards apartheid.

THEY ARE TRYING TO STOP THE GENOCIDE BEING PERPETRATED IN THEIR NAME

WTF is wrong with you?

They have very simple demands, they’re not giving some pie in the sky stuff like “have Joe Biden tried for war crimes and abolish capitalism” or something; the protests all have demands along the lines that their university boycott Israeli companies and cut ties with weapons manufacturers aiding the genocide. To claim otherwise is completely infantalising to the protestors who are risking their university positions and physical health to protest despite the police crackdowns.

Here’s a link to the list of demands of the student protest in new York, for instance

And here’s a picture of the list of the demands of the columbia faculty protest:

If they don’t care then why did satanyahu come out in a speech against it? Protesting does work and does matter. You only need to look at history to see that

Pretty sure people protesting in the US are trying to influence the US govt.

Do you seriously believe in this?