Robert Kraft's Blue Square Alliance gathers sports leaders to combat antisemitism

Robert Kraft saw the 2018 massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh — the death, pain and suffering that wrought — followed by a slew of other attacks on Jews that reached a crescendo with the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas in Israel. At the event, held at Gillette Stadium, which Kraft built and where his New England Patriots play, the Blue Square Alliance held sessions to help sports leaders better understand the rise of antisemitism in the country and around the world. The foundation has established a headquarters at Gillette Stadium that is staffed by about 28 people and includes a war room of sorts where a billion – with a B – posted public conversations on Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, and others are social media are monitored in real time and filtered to identify Jewish hate and other hate topics.