There are many opinions to hold about the students and rabble-rousers camping out on college quads these days — and those occupying buildings and smashing windows.

You may consider them antisemites, terrorist-apologists, violent thugs, spoiled brats, misguided idealists, angry young men and women, or anything else. Or maybe you have sympathy for them, because they are motivated by real compassion for the real suffering going on in Gaza.