A recent survey shows a large majority of Americans favor the Trump administration’s measures to combat antisemitism on U.S. campuses.
According to the poll conducted by Schoen Cooperman Research and Israel on Campus Coalition, two-thirds of those surveyed “strongly” or “somewhat” support cutting federal funding to universities that “do not do enough to protect Jewish students or address antisemitism.”
Two-thirds also “strongly” or “somewhat” support rescinding visas and deporting non-U.S. citizens “who participate in protests supporting Hamas,” a terrorist organization according to the U.S. government.
Seventy-five percent of participants also say they are “very” or “somewhat” concerned that anti-Israel/pro-Hamas campus protests lead to anti-Jewish hate crimes and violence.
Other poll findings include:
— Based on “what they know,” 54 percent support the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia graduate student who helped lead various pro-Hamas protests. A plurality (40 percent) of college students also favor his deportation.
— 85 percent believe Israel has the right to defend itself.
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