Most New Yorkers support police crackdown on ugly anti-Israel protests: poll
NY Post
The vast majority of New Yorkers believe that the anti-Israel protests on Big Apple campuses were fueled by antisemitism — and they support the police crackdown on the ugly demonstrations, an eye-opening new poll shows.
Sixty-one percent of registered voters from across the Empire State agreed that the campus protesters “have forgotten that Hamas started this war” and that the demonstrations “have crossed the line into anti-Semitism,” according to a Sienna College poll.
By comparison, only a quarter (25%) of respondents disagreed, while the rest were undecided.
More than two-thirds of New Yorkers (70%) also said they supported the police action to shut down unruly protests that went too far and crossed the line into Jew-hatred. Less than a quarter (22%) disagreed.
The results come just weeks after 44 pro-terror rioters — who included two university staffers — were arrested after barricading themselves inside Columbia University’s iconic Hamilton Hall, where they smashed windows and draped it with a giant flag calling for “intifada.”
Meanwhile, 72% of voters said they support students “peacefully” demonstrating in support of Palestinians suffering in Gaza, while 22% disagreed.
