Only 8 percent of college students have protested the war in Gaza -- on either side -- according to a new Generation Lab survey, reports Sareen Habeshian for Axios. "Students ranked the conflict in the Middle East as the least important issue facing them out of nine options." Their top issues were health care reform, education funding and access and economic fairness and opportunity.
While 34 percent blame Hamas for the conflict, 31 percent blame Israel's prime minister or the Israeli people) and 12 percent blame President Joe Biden.
Students were more likely to support than oppose pro-Palestinian encampments, writes Habeshian. However, 67 percent say occupying campus buildings is unacceptable and 58 percent say it's not acceptable to refuse a university's order to disperse. Ninety percent said blocking pro-Israel students from parts of campus is unacceptable.
Eighty-one percent of students agree that "those who destroyed property or vandalized or illegally occupied buildings should be held responsible by their university."