Auburn's Bruce Pearl says embattled university presidents falsely believe Palestinians are oppressed

Auburn's Bruce Pearl says embattled university presidents falsely believe Palestinians are oppressed

Last week, three top university presidents made headlines when they were unable to say if calls for the genocide of Jews would violate university policy.

Liz Magill of Penn resigned, but Harvard's Claudine Gay was expected to hold her title. 

Sally Kornbluth has MIT's "full and unreserved support," the school said in a statement last week.

Auburn basketball coach Bruce Pearl, who is Jewish, said he is "grateful" he has not sensed antisemitism on his campus. And it doesn't seem like he believes Gay, Magill or Kornbluth are necessarily antisemitic.

However, he does believe there is a false narrative that Palestinian people are oppressed, which played a role in the presidents' questionable testimony.

"There's a connection between antisemitism and anti-Zionism. They would like to say they're not antisemitic … but when it comes to Israel, way too many people around the world have bought into the idea that somehow the Jews stole the Palestinians' land. That's just not true," Pearl told OutKick's Dan Dakich.