Politics

Much better article: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/cornell-protest-palestine-immigration-1235112444/

Seems like his heart is in the right place, but his brain isn't.

In other words (and please excuse my French): Don't shit where you eat. Given his past history as an activist on campus and the reprimands he has received for this, it was extremely risky of him to attend this kind of highly disruptive protest. In the end, he's merely a guest, at both the university and in the US. It would have been much wiser of him to support his cause elsewhere instead of at and against the institution that he relies on for his degree and visa.

The fact that he's relatively well-known locally as an activist might actually harm his prospects: While he can briefly leverage this to mobilize his supporters (which appear to be mainly students and relatively few sympathetic academics, which isn't ideal), this will only further antagonize the administration that seems to be hell-bent on getting rid of a trouble-maker, while at the same time discouraging others, no matter their cause, to protest in the same manner or perhaps even violently, like at other self-proclaimed pro-Palestinian protests at American universities. From a purely Machiavellian perspective - and I do not support this, despite the fact that I disagree with the student, his methods and his cause - Cornell would likely gain more from muffling him and by extension others than by allowing him to continue for at least two more years.

Even if he somehow manages to survive this, it would likely only be temporary: Given his past and present behavior, he would feel emboldened, which in turn would result in him doing something similar or worse again soon, which in turn would finally exhaust any remaining goodwill he's enjoying with the administration.