Bob Kraft should run for Elizabeth Warren’s Senate seat.

The owner of the New England Patriots has a lot on his plate, but he’s demonstrated the kind of “put your money where your mouth is” backbone that’s sorely needed in American leadership.

Kraft, who attended Columbia University on a full academic scholarship, has seen that institute of higher education devolve like so many others into a raving circus of antisemitism.

As the Herald reported, police arrested more than 100 protestors at a pro-Palestinian encampment that sprang up on campus over the Israel-Hamas war, while a rabbi at the university advised Jewish students to go home until it’s safer for them on campus.

The usual suspects claimed they were shocked, shocked at these incidents, in line with responses following other outbreaks of harassment against Jewish students around the country. Lots of talk, little action.

That’s not the Kraft way.

“I am deeply saddened at the virulent hate that continues to grow on campus and throughout our country,” Kraft said. “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.”

Fix the problem or forget about funding. A message with muscle.

Columbia isn’t in Massachusetts, but Harvard, Tufts, UMass Amherst and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are. They all share the dubious honor of receiving failing grades on the Anti-Defamation League’s Antisemitism Scorecard.

Some donor alums have ceased supporting these alma maters, none with the name recognition of Kraft, but it begs the question: why aren’t pols pulling government dollars from these colleges amid the wave of antisemitic acts?

Sen. Warren, a former professor at Harvard, must at least acknowledge, as Kraft did, that these universities aren’t the places they once knew.

She, like so many progressive politicians, has had ample opportunity to publicly discredit the misinformation underpinning so many campus demonstrations. Instead, Warren delivered this statement recently at the Islamic Center of Boston when asked if a top UN court will find that Israel is carrying out a genocide.:

“So if you want to do it as an application of law, I believe that they’ll find that it is genocide, and they have ample evidence to do so.”

Never mind that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has stated, “We don’t have any evidence of genocide being created. We don’t have evidence of that.”

Does Warren’s pandering to young voters do anything to douse the flames of antisemitism on campuses? No.

But she could propose to cut the funding of colleges until they fix the problem. According to the Heritage Foundation, during fiscal year 2022, Ivy League universities received $1.8 billion for overhead on government-funded research grants.

Warren has clout. If she proposed cutting such fed funding to schools at which antisemitism rages, it would have an impact.

Bob Kraft has the right idea, and has used his position to speak up, and stand up for the religious freedom guaranteed in our Constitution.

Politicians who can’t do the same should be cut from the team.

Editorial cartoon by Chip Bok (Creators Syndicate)