Legendary basketball coach Bruce Pearl slams anti-Israel college protesters going silent on Iran

"Right now, you've got thousands of Iranians - women, men, they're out there in the streets just asking for freedom and not have to live under this Islamic extremism insanity right now," Pearl said on Friday's installment of the "Ruthless" podcast.

"Where are the college protesters? Where are they?" Pearl asked. "On every Ivy League campus they ought to be ashamed of themselves for not being out there in the thousands."

"We're afraid to teach. We're afraid to have hard conversations," Pearl said. "Because, at a university, we've got to teach both sides to this. Wait a second - you know what - sometimes there are both sides. Good versus evil. Right versus wrong. 'But we want to be institutionally neutral.' Really? It doesn't work!"

"I love this country. I'd give my life for this country," Pearl said. "But at the same time, I can still love my Jewish ancestral homeland. I can still love my faith. It doesn't make me less American. But it's the argument you get."