Foundation To Combat Antisemitism video makes false claims and promotes their own brand of hate

The Foundation To Combat Antisemitism was founded by Robert Craft, a billionaire who is best know as the owned of the New England Patriots NFL football team. 

Using is vast amounts of money, Kraft created the Foundation To Combat Antisemitism shortly after the Hamas attack in Israel. Here is what Kraft said, just after he created the group:

Since October 7, Jewish hate has continued to explode on college and university campuses, resulting in Jewish students feeling unsafe and under attack in the spaces they are meant to feel most safe and free.

Kraft doesn’t provide any evidence of the increase of Jewish hate, just a survey about how Jewish people feel. 

In February, the Foundation To Combat Antisemitism launched its first video during the Super Bowl, which attempted to equate criticism of Israel with antisemitism. Dave Zirin, a Jewish sports writer, said this about Robert Kraft earlier this year:

The New England Patriots’ 81-year-old owner, Robert Kraft, writes seven-digit checks to the right-wing Israeli lobbying machine AIPAC, but his personal, political, and financial ties to Israel run deeper than the occasional donation. The multibillionaire married his late wife, Myra, in Israel in 1963 when Kraft, then 22, was older than the nation itself. Together they set up numerous business, athletic, and charitable ties to Israel, a record of which is proudly proclaimed on the Kraft company website. In particular, the Kraft Group boasts of its “Touchdown in Israel” program, where NFL players are given free, highly organized vacations to see “the holy land” and come back to spread the word about “the only democracy in the Middle East.” (Not every NFL player has chosen to take part.) Kraft also attends fundraisers for the Israel Defense Forces, currently—and in open view of the world, committing war crimes in Gaza. 

In the most recent 30 second video produced by the Foundation To Combat Antisemitism, they are attempting to equate all of the Palestine Solidarity encampments that are taking place at colleges and universities across the country. The video’s tagline is, Don’t Bring Hate to the protest and uses images that suggest that students who are participating in the Palestine Solidarity encampments are violent, even though the video offers no evidence. What is really absurd about this video is that it doesn’t say anything about pro-Israeli groups that have attacked students, like what happened at UCLA.

The other thing that the Don’t Bring Hate to the protest video doesn’t address is how many instances where local police departments have been sent in to beat, harass and arrest students who are participating in the Palestine Solidarity encampments. 

Lastly, the Don’t Bring Hate to the protest video fails to mention that many of the organizers who are involved in the hundreds of students encampments are Jewish.

Instead of producing a misleading video about how student protesters should behave, maybe the Foundation To Combat Antisemitism should make a video about the state violence directed at Jewish students who are organizing and participating in the Palestine Solidarity encampments at campuses across the country.