Patriots Owner Robert Kraft: Campus Anti-Israel Protests ‘Scaring a Lot of People’

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft wants Americans to stand together and oppose the anti-Israel hate that has swamped college campuses in recent weeks.“I think our universities were one of our competitive advantages as a country, and I think what’s going on now throughout America is scaring a lot of people,” Kraft said.

Kraft attended Columbia University, an institution which has been particularly impacted by the anti-Israel hate fests masquerading as protests.He will take out ads in newspapers on behalf of his Foundation to Combat Antisemitism. “The reason I took these ads out I want people to know that good people — and they’ve come to our foundation — they really care, and they have to speak up and not be silent – the way Martin Luther King spoke about it with ,” he explained, before going on to outline just what a university education did for him and his long-term career prospects.

Kraft called for “empathy,” not hatred and his plea follows the launch in January of a “Stand Up to Jewish Hate” ad during the Super Bowl, as Breitbart News

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