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Bruce Pearl, head coach of the Auburn Tigers male basketball team and president of the US Israel Education Association, cried the killings of two staff of the Israel Embassy after an event from the Jewish museum in the capital on Wednesday evening.
Pearl appeared on Outkick “Do not @ with Dan Dakich” And said he was on Capitol Hill on Wednesday evening to talk about the month of Jewish heritage before the shooting.
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A man, with an Israeli flag with a cross in the center, kneels next to the emergency staff working on the site where two staff of the Israeli Embassy were killed near the capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (Images Reuters / Jonathan Ernst / TPX of the day)
“There is a huge increase in anti -Semitism. We will overcome it,” said Pearl. “It was just a young couple, two diplomats preparing to start their life. The young man had a ring and prepares to ask this beautiful girl to marry her and to start a family. And everything left right now because of, frankly, just the lies. Just the lies and incredible propaganda.”
Pearl said he thought that when the anti-Israeli agitators walked in the streets or university campuses and sing the “free Palestine”, it really meant that they wanted to release him from the Jewish people.
“When they say,” free Palestine “-what they mean is the free Palestine of the Jews. Free Palestine of your friend coach, Bruce Pearl. … That’s what it is about,” he said. “If you were to sit there and call for an intifada or if you were going to call death to the Jews, simply replace the Jews with the word ” or` “ `Women ” or anyone, where in the world, you can go out here in this country. But we took them seriously. DC last night. “”
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Pearl deplored the “lies” that informed Israel – whether on university campuses or in the media.
However, the university basketball coach did not think that the shooting would be a tilting point for those who protest against Israel.
“I don’t know it can. I don’t know we are at a tilting point at that time. I don’t see this thing changing much.”
The police are working on the site where, according to the US interior security secretary, two staff of the Israeli Embassy were killed near the Jewish Museum capital in Washington, DC, on May 21, 2025. (Reuters / Jonathan Ernst)
The witness recounts a moment of cooling, the shooter of the Jewish museum of the DC confessed “I did that for Gaza”
Yaron Lischinsky, an Israeli, and Sarah Milgrim, an American, both worked at the embassy and were about to be committed before being slaughtered at the Jewish museum in the capital in Washington, according to the Israeli ambassador to US Yechiel Leiter.
Washington, DC police identified the suspect as Elias Rodriguez, 30, who was placed in police custody after the shooting attack. He would have been seen in the process of steming in front of the museum before approaching a group of four people, including the two victims, and to open fire. Rodriguez would then have gone to the museum where he was held by security. He would have shouted “free and free Palestine!” in detention.
NFL Washington commanders were one of those who condemned anti -Semitism.
Sarah Lynn Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky were about to be engaged. (Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
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“We are deeply saddened by the tragic murders of two young Israeli diplomats outside the Jewish museum in the capital,” said the team. “Anti -Semitism and hatred do not have their place in our society, and we join the entire DMV to offer our thoughts and prayers to the families of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgri. May their memories be a blessing.”
Rachel Wolf of Fox News contributed to this report.
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