As we talked and I gently pushed back she admitted she doesn’t really know them or interact with students. And she is at MIT. Combined with what you say I sense a strange counter narrative circulating.

It's way easier for them to spend mental energy dismissing the protesters than it is for them to confront the reality of US-sponsored genocide unfolding in real time with no meaningful opposition from either political party. And that's esp true for the MSM, this stuff is red meat for them.