It's the Brian Larra Show on WNYC. Good morning everyone. Well obviously you've been hearing about what's going on on college campuses around the country as you were just hearing on the BBC and locally about the police involvement last night at

Columbia and City College. Later this hour our lead Eric Adams reporter

Elizabeth Kim will be on as the mayor is out talking about it this morning.

And of course, it's not just in New York City

where the pro-Palestinian protest or encampments

and police responses have been taking place,

in some cases clashes with the police, in some cases clashes

between competing groups of protesters, in many cases expressions of anti-Semitism

accompany these events also, these developments, not just opposition to how the war in Gaza is being fought since the Hamas attack on October 7th.

In Monclare, New Jersey in March, a Gaza Relief event called

Palestine Lives was cancelled by Montclair State University with the

University president citing that an outside group had become the lead sponsor of the event

and according to university president Jonathan Kappelle

published a mission statement that goes well beyond advocacy for the Palestinian people.

Specifically, the President's statement said,

it contains an explicit call to, quote,

eliminate Zionism on our campuses and in our communities.

So President Kappelle says the declared purpose of this organization

to rid the campus of any who oppose its views

strikes at the very core of Meclair State University's mission and values,

that a quote from the University President's letter to the University community in March.

Also in March in Monclare, there were dueling ceasefire now

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