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Most U.S. Students Blame Hamas for Attack on Israel, Poll Finds

Two-thirds of American college students who knew about Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel said they view it as an act of terrorism, while only 12 percent said it was a “justified act of resistance,” according to a Generation Lab flash poll of 978 two- and four-year college students taken days after the attack, NBC News reported. Additionally, 52 percent of those surveyed blamed Hamas for the attack; 11 percent blamed it on Israel, 12 percent blamed other Middle Eastern governments and 25 percent held someone else at fault.
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