Bruce Pearl
“We’ve got to protect ourselves from those people that want to kill us,” Bruce Pearl said at a Jewish American Heritage Month breakfast.
Bruce Pearl has used his national platform to call for the release of the hostages in Gaza and speak out against the surge of Jew-hatred after Oct. 7.
U.S.-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander’s father, Adi, is due to attend Auburn University’s upcoming game as a guest of Athletes for Israel.
“Jews in America are being targeted,” Bruce Pearl, head coach of the Auburn Tigers men’s team, told JNS. “Something does need to be done about that.”
Four teams with Jewish coaches played in college basketball tournaments on Sunday.
“The aim of the organization is not just to reach a Jewish audience. Our larger goal is to reach an audience of the hundreds of millions of people who haven’t made up their mind about Israel,” says group founder Daniel Posner.
The group visited the Children’s Memorial, dedicated to the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators.
“Our kids also come from a perspective culturally and educationally that they will return to the U.S. as allies and friends of the State of Israel,” said head coach Bruce Pearl.
The reigning SEC regular-season champion Tigers will play three games against Israel’s top teams over the course of an 11-day trip.
“These foreign trips have been one of the greatest teaching moments in 40 years of coaching college basketball,” said Auburn University men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl.
