  QCD monopoles are magnetically charged quasiparticles whose Bose-Einstein
condensation (BEC) at $T<T_c$ creates electric confinement and flux tubes. The
"magnetic scenario" of QCD proposes that scattering on the non-condensed
component of the monopole ensemble at $T>T_c$ plays an important role in
explaining the properties of strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma (sQGP) near
the deconfinement temperature. In this paper, we study the phenomenon of chiral
symmetry breaking and its relation to magnetic monopoles. Specifically, we
study the eigenvalue spectrum of the Dirac operator in the basis of fermionic
zero modes in an SU(2) monopole background. We find that as the temperature
approaches the deconfinement temperature $T_c$ from above, the eigenvalue
spectrum has a finite density at $\omega = 0$, indicating the presence of a
chiral condensate. In addition, we find the critical scaling of the eigenvalue
gap to be consistent with that of the correlation length in the 3d Ising model
and the BEC transition of monopoles on the lattice.
