It doesn't play into contemporary domestic or at least academic socio-political views, doesn't acknowledge demographic and religious realities.
Some tried to make it WEIRD-relevant when it was pointed out that the RSF was busily exterminating members of a certain ethnic group (not 'Arab' but 'black', there being mostly a cultural and linguistic difference from a Westerner's surface-level vision-based point of view), but that was only in some areas of the country. Still, it was what we'd classify as a one vulnerable population genociding another vulnerable population, and at some point intersectionality didn't provide a large enough delta to motivate people to protest.
Plus who could be protested that would gave a damn about US and Western protests? Protest to get Trump to intervene? Like, really? We want him intervening? Protest Biden and his administration? Bad optics in an election year, just look at the Palestinian protests and that mess. Maybe some could protest the Sudanese embassy ...? But that's not the RSF. Maybe protest those backing the RSF ...? Right, let's protest the Qatariy embassy or whoever and maybe they'd suddenly decide to care. Or, much more likely, they'd just call it a day and let a mostly empty building be protested for a while for the media's benefit ... like the majority of viewers care so why would the media that reach most people actually care?
Remember the Uighurs. Tibetans. Had people in the '90s arguing that the entire Vietnamese "boat people" and 'concentration camp' tales were a myth--even to a naturalized citizen who said, to their face, he was one of those "boat people" (with his immediate family) and his grandparents died in the camps. "You're lying!" Hard to challenge beliefs with facts, doncha know.
The I-P conflict has adherents and a large presence in American politics and American academic and political discourse; there are a lot of Palestinians in the US. A lot of Muslims support the Palestinians because of the location of Israel on "Muslim soil" and because Jews are specifically mentioned in the Qur'an as a foe. So that conflict unifies a variety of groups under a single banner. Not because of the Palestinians per se, any more than the much more numerous dead Uighurs or Sudanese matter per se. No, it matters because it matters to us for reasons apart from the sheer number of people being starved, raped, killed, etc.
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