Patriots' Robert Kraft takes aim at Columbia professors amid anti-Israel protests

Robert Kraft attends the 66th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 04, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

New England Patriots team owner Robert Kraft took aim at Columbia University professors in an op-ed published in the New York Post on Thursday morning.

Kraft, who pulled support for his alma mater earlier in the week because of the antisemitic violence and protests on campus, wrote in the newspaper that the focus of the demonstrations should shed light on what professors have taught those students.

"Today, the attention and visuals surrounding the hateful protests taking place on Columbia’s campus have been focused on the students, but the students have been taught and empowered by faculty more focused on politics than they are on education," Kraft wrote.

"These are not the professors I had who exemplified the fundamental principles underpinning the mission of higher education in the United States."

He added, "I do not recognize my alma mater."

Kraft wrote to his astonishment over the signs on campus which read, "Go Back to Poland," and chants of "Kill all the Jews" and "October 7th 10,000 more times."

"The Columbia I loved is no longer a place I know," he added in the New York Post.