Today on the Brian Lera show, two things you might prepare to call in with

Later this hour will wrap up our Earth Week plastics challenge due to thank founder of the group Beyondastics, will be on again to hear how it went for you and you still have time to participate in the next half hour or so, just jot down some single-use plastics you can identify that you've used or seen this week and

get ready to call in with what you've seen and at the end of the show next hour

we will celebrate National Poetry Month with a call in that invites you to recite

about 30 seconds of any poem of your choice, any favorite poem that's coming up next hour.

But we start on the news. We continue on this show to try to talk

about and to care about the different suffering parties in the Israel-Palestine conflict

and the college campuses situation in this country.

For this Passover week and week in which campus protests have been multiplying and

expanding, we've been mostly centering some of the really ugly and explicit anti-Semitism that's been getting expressed around some of those,

including threatening language or glorifying Hamas attacks that's there, clear as day to be seen on some of the videos

going around, not just by random individuals but also by organized chanting groups in

some cases sometimes on campus.

To many Jews it's like nothing that's really happened in the US

in this kind of way before.

It's a serious eye-opener and source of fear for many Jewish students and faculty and it needs to be called what it is.

At the same time, that is not to say that the protests are essentially anti-Semitic as opposed to

policy focused on the war and the occupation.

Even the conservative New York Times columnist and Columbia Professor John McWhorter,

you know him?

John McMorter wrote in the Times this week, quote,

I don't think that Jew hatred is as much the reason

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