Robert Kraft Pulls Financial Support for Columbia University Over Antisemitic Protests

Published on April 24, 2024

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who has long provided financial backing to his alma mater, Columbia University, said he will no longer contribute to the Ivy League school—until it creates a safe environment for Jewish students on campus. Mr. Kraft, an Orthodox Jew whose late wife Myra’s grandparents died in the Holocaust, made the announcement on April 22 in the wake of the rising hostilities behind ongoing pro-Hamas, antisemitic protests on the university’s campus in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in Upper Manhattan. “I am no longer confident that Columbia can protect its students and staff, and I am not comfortable supporting the university until corrective action is taken,” the sports and business executive said in a statement....

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