Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots and founder of the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism (FCAS), has donated $100 million to the foundation, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Kraft’s contribution matches a $100 million gift to FCAS from the Norman R. Rales and Ruth Rales Foundation. The combined $200 million will “significantly expand FCAS operations with permanent financing” and bolster funding for the organization’s “blue square” media campaign to raise awareness of antisemitism.

The funding comes in the wake of a rise in antisemitism in the United States, exacerbated by the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the now two-month-old war, which “has prompted concerns over both antisemitism and anti-Muslim acts…in the U.S. and across the globe.” Recent FCAS media campaigns have also called out the rise in hate against other groups, such as the Black, Muslim, and Asian communities.

One of FCAS’s goals in the coming months is to further develop the relationship between the Black and Jewish communities, a tie Kraft told the Journal was “so powerful historically” but has frayed in recent years.

“Hate doesn’t stop with antisemitism,” Rales Foundation president Joshua Rales told the Journal. “Hate is greedy and tries to devour everything in its path, and it needs to be stopped. And that’s why we put up this kind of money, because the amount of resources that are going to be needed to make the inroads and to bring people into the fold are going to be substantial.”

“This is a foundation that can’t run for the next two to three years, it has to run for at least a couple decades,” Kraft told the Journal. “I’m not sure its work will ever be done.”

(Photo credit: Foundation to Combat Antisemitism)