Fewer college students in the United States blame Hamas for the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that killed about 1,200 Israelis and resulted in more than 250 hostages, according to a poll.

According to a Generation Lab poll of two- and four-year students, the number of college students who blame Hamas for the attack has dropped from 52% in October of last year, just after the attack, to 41%, an 11 percentage point drop.

The news comes as protests in support of Palestinians in Gaza have ignited on campuses across the U.S., including at Columbia University, Yale, and George Washington University.

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Previously, only 12% said that the attack was a “justified act of resistance,” but that number has jumped 8 percentage points to 20%. In the previous poll, 11% of college students said they believed Israel deserved blame for the attack, but that number has jumped to 27%.

The poll was conducted on April 23 and surveyed 1,392 two- and four-year college students, and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 percentage points.