Coach Bruce Pearl on Antisemitism
Antisemitism in America continues snowballing well beyond college campuses, with tragic yet predictable consequences. In the past month, Jew-hating terrorists have callously murdered two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C. and firebombed a rally for the return of Hamas-held hostages in the normally idyllic Boulder, Colorado. Then, on June 10, U.S. authorities announced they had foiled a major jihadist terrorist plot targeting a Jewish center in New York City.
Auburn University men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl has sounded the alarm about the escalating danger facing American Jews and the importance of moral clarity in the present time. On June 6, the outspoken Pearl told Fox News that antisemitism “is just not acceptable on college campuses,” and that foreigners should not be free to “incite terrorism” at American universities. Pearl previously stated about the Israel-Hamas war, “this is not politics. This is good vs. evil.”
Please join JINSA for an exclusive discussion with Pearl as he shares his unique perspective on the rise of antisemitism at U.S. colleges and beyond. JINSA President and CEO Michael Makovsky, PhD will moderate the conversation.
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Friday, June 13 | 2:00PM ET |
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Coach Bruce Pearl Coach Bruce Pearl is the head coach of Auburn University’s men’s basketball team. One of the most prominent men’s basketball coaches in the country, he currently ranks No. 12 among active NCAA Division I head coaches in career wins (662) and No. 46 all-time. Coach Pearl is only the fifth Jewish head coach to lead a team to the Final Four, and he has used his national profile to raise awareness about the rising tide in antisemitism sweeping across the country. |
Michael Makovsky, PhD Michael Makovsky since 2013 has been President and CEO of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA), a leading Washington, D.C.-based policy and educational organization focused on U.S. defense and national security issues in the Middle East. Makovsky has worked extensively on U.S.-Israel defense ties, U.S. policy toward Iran, Syria, Iraq, Gaza, the Persian Gulf, the role of energy in U.S. national security policy, and the Eastern Mediterranean. He is also author of Churchill’s Promised Land (Yale University Press), a diplomatic-intellectual history of Winston Churchill’s complex relationship with Zionism. |