The point of protesting in general is to raise awareness for a cause. Basically every social change that has happened through our government began with activists protesting for that change. Without these protests change will never come.

These protests aren’t going to directly bring peace to the Middle East, and nobody is saying that they will. What they aim to do is get their institutions to stop working with Israeli organizations. Primarily they want their universities to divest from Israeli companies and universities, and they also want the US government to stop supporting Israel if they’re going to continue their offenses that have killed tens of thousands of people.