A new poll shows 81 percent of college students want anti-Israel protesters to be held accountable for the chaos they have caused in recent weeks on campuses across the United States.
Eighty-one percent of college students say the protesters who destroyed, vandalized, or illegally occupied campus property should be held responsible by their universities, according to a Generation Lab poll conducted between Friday and Monday.
A majority of the surveyed 1,250 students oppose the protest tactics, with 90 percent against blocking pro-Israel students from accessing campus, 67 percent against occupying campus buildings, and 58 percent against defying the university administrators’ orders to disperse.
The students ranked the Israel-Hamas war as the least important among the nine major issues presented in the survey, instead viewing "healthcare reform," "educational funding and access," and "economic fairness and opportunity" as the most pressing issues.
More than 2,000 people have been arrested on college campuses after weeks of anti-Israel demonstrations that featured overnight encampments, building takeovers, physical assaults, harassment, and anti-Semitic slogans.
Hundreds of students have faced suspensions, and some have been expelled by their universities. At least two universities—Columbia University and the University of Southern California—have announced they are canceling their main graduation ceremonies.