It's the Brian Laris 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 Montclair, New Jersey, in March,

a Gaza relief event called Palestine Lives was canceled 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 Capelle, 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 Capel says the declared purpose of this organization to rid the campus of any who oppose its views strikes at the very core of Montclair 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 Montclair, there were dueling ceasefire now and stand up to anti-Semitism events,

and the editor of the Jewish newspaper, the forward, Judy Rudorin, who lives in Montclair,

published an article called When Hate Comes to Your Hometown.

It focused on a pro-Palestinian march that centered the chant,

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