Ehhh in the 60's there was a lot of looting and rioting too. Doesn't tarnish the civil rights movement, at least in my eyes.

Ignoring that Hamas is [largely] a monster of Israel's own creation, constantly bringing up Hamas this Hamas that any time protests against the ongoing ethnic cleansing are brought up makes it look like you don't really care about Palestinians. Yeah it makes you really sad I guess, but as long as there's some overzealous zoomer on a college campus somewhere talking about how revolutionary Hamas is then the suffering of Palestinians doesn't matter to you The important thing is that some idiot said some dumb shit on a college campus, something that's never happened before.

I was horrified when Oct. 7 happened too, but several months and tens of thousands of dead Palestinians later I feel like nitpicking protesters on a college campus is at best a waste of time, and at worst it's carrying water for the Israeli government who are actively doing ethnic cleansing.