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

Later this hour, we'll wrap up our Earth Week Plastics Challenge,

Stu to thank, founder of the group Beyond Plastics, we'll 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 U.S. 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?

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