Mark Murray is a senior political editor at NBC News.
The share of American college students who blame Hamas for the Oct. 7 attack on Israel has declined by more than 10 percentage points in the last six months, according to a new Generation Lab poll of two-and four-year college students. Forty-one percent of college students say Hamas deserves blame for its Oct.
By party, 66% of Republican college students, 43% of independents and just 34% of Democratic college students say Hamas deserves blame for the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. By race and ethnicity, 49% of white college students, 34% of Latinos and 27% of Black respondents say Hamas is to blame. These numbers come as protests in support of Palestinians and against Israel’s war in Gaza after the Oct. 7 attack have been in the news and continued to roil college campuses across the country.
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