Poll Brings Bad News For Hamas Supporters On College Campuses

Most U.S. adults and many college students support some of the ways President Donald Trump is using government power against antisemitism on college campuses, new polling shows.

Adults and college students support cutting federal funds for universities that fail to address antisemitism by 66% and 56%, respectively, according to an Israel on Campus Coalition survey obtained Tuesday by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The poll also found that 54% of adults support deporting pro-Hamas encampment leader Mahmoud Khalil, with a plurality of college students agreeing at 40%.

“The American public has sent a clear message: universities must be held accountable for failing to protect Jewish students from discrimination and harassment,” said Jacob Baime, CEO of the Israel on Campus Coalition, in a statement shared with the DCNF.

🔍 Both a majority of U.S. adults (66%) and college students (56%) support cutting federal funding to colleges and universities that fail to protect Jewish students or address antisemitism decisively. pic.twitter.com/1jntiKfwIz

— ICC (@israelcc) April 8, 2025

The poll surveyed 1,000 U.S. adults and 450 college students between March 21-24 after the Trump administration made significant moves: cutting or threatening millions of dollars in funds for institutions such as Columbia University, arresting Khalil over his role in antisemitic protests at Columbia and fighting in court to have him deported.

Congressional Democrats have made Khalil a free speech icon and said Trump is using “the playbook of authoritarians” against him in a March letter. (RELATED: Pro-Palestinian Students Fearing Deportation Scramble To Erase Opinions From Newspaper Articles)

Crosstabs for the poll showed 65% of all respondents agreeing with the idea of “the federal government revoking student visas and deporting non-U.S. citizens who participate in protests supporting Hamas.” Trump won reelection in November after campaigning on this policy and authorized it with an executive order on his first day in office.

Israel on Campus Coalition produced the data with Schoen Cooperman Research, a firm that Democrat pollsters Doug Schoen and Carly Cooperman lead. The polling has a margin of error of 3% for adults and 5% for college students, Israel on Campus Coalition told the DCNF.

“Amid a rising crisis of antisemitism, too many academic institutions have neglected their duty,” Baime said. “These findings signal that administrators must act decisively to ensure a safe, inclusive environment for Jewish students.”

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