Auburn's Bruce Pearl mourns loss of 2 Israeli Embassy staffers following killings after Jewish museum event

Auburn men's basketball coach Bruce Pearl appears on OutKick's "Don't @ Me with Dan Dakich" to talk about the killings of two Israeli Embassy staffers in D.C.

Bruce Pearl, the head coach of the Auburn Tigers men’s basketball team and chairman of the U.S. Israel Education Association, mourned the killings of two Israeli Embassy staffers after a Capital Jewish Museum event on Wednesday night.

Pearl appeared on OutKick’s "Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich" and said he was on Capitol Hill on Wednesday night talking about Jewish Heritage Month before the shooting occurred.

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A man, with an Israeli flag with a cross in the center, kneels next to emergency personnel working at the site where two Israeli Embassy staffers were shot dead near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/TPX Images of the Day)

"There’s a tremendous rise in antisemitism. We’re going to overcome it," Pearl said. "This was just a young couple, two diplomats just getting ready to start their life. The young man had a ring and was just getting ready to ask this beautiful girl to marry him and start a family. And that’s all gone right now because of, quite frankly, just the lies. Just the lies and incredibly awful propaganda."

Pearl said he believed that when anti-Israel agitators march in the streets or college campuses and chant "free Palestine," it really meant that they want to free it from Jewish people.

"When they say, ‘free Palestine’ – what they mean is free Palestine of the Jews. Free Palestine of your friend coach, Bruce Pearl. … That’s what this is all about," he said. "If you were to sit there and call for an intifada or if you were going to be