Gad Saad is a best-selling author of The Parasitic Mind, and more recently, The Sad Truth. He's interviewed by Piers Morgan, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Elon Musk, and is considered an international genius by everyone. He has an amazing podcast where he invites everyone, well, everyone, to listen to his amazing podcast.
00:00:00.000Right now, I'd like to welcome one of my favorite intellects of our time, best-selling author of The Parasitic Mind, and more recently, The Sad Truth.
00:00:14.120You've heard him on Joe Rogan at least 10 different times. He's been on Piers Morgan, he's been interviewed by Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Elon Musk.
00:00:23.120The man is wanted by everyone. He's considered an international genius, really, by most people.
00:00:28.660He has an amazing podcast where he invites, well, everyone. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the brilliant Gad Saad.
00:01:06.920You know, I often have to speak at academic conferences that are full of audience members who are parasitized, so it's nice to actually be in front of sane people.
00:01:17.560So thank you for all of the love. I appreciate it.
00:01:20.920Before I start with the actual talk, I just wanted to, I just saw this on Twitter.
00:01:31.940As I was waiting endlessly in the green room.
00:01:40.340So I was recently asked on a show, I was on a, I can't remember the name of the show, but it was hosted by a British psychiatrist.
00:01:50.800And at the end of the show, he asked me a question that, he asked me a question that, surprisingly, no one had asked me in 30 years as a professor.
00:02:03.600And that is, what is the singular phenomenon of human behavior that has most surprised you in your 30 years career as a psychologist, as a behavioral scientist, and so on?
00:02:15.700And so I had to pause for a second, and then I thought, well, it's probably the inability of people to change their opinions once it is anchored.
00:02:24.900Irrespective of the amount of evidence that you show them that suggests that they should maybe revisit their positions.
00:02:32.820And to that point, I wanted to, so this is, this was a tweet, a tweet that came out from the American Jewish Committee poll of Jewish voters in the United States.
00:02:43.740So the exit poll from the 2020 election, 68 for Biden and 30 for Trump.
00:02:56.400Now it's many years later, there is incoming information, and the latest is 61 Biden, 23 Trump.
00:03:08.020So irrespective of the amount of evidence that might have caused some Jewish people in the United States to say, well, let me revisit the fact that I voted for Biden, it hasn't moved them 1%.
00:03:21.240So one of the most difficult things that I have to face as someone who's been within the ecosystem of trying to change minds is what are the strategies that I can use to try to change people's opinions?
00:03:34.100Now, of course, there is success. The parasitic mind was, you know, a very successful book.
00:03:39.920But it is so frustrating because you really see that you're fighting this insurmountable battle against people's unwillingness to ever listen.
00:03:48.960Just la, la, la, I don't want to hear it.
00:03:50.440And so that theme will come up on various occasions during today's talk.
00:03:54.720So today's talk is the eternal hatred of Jews from Beirut to the West.
00:04:00.200It's a shortened talk of a longer talk I recently gave at my alma mater.
00:05:20.880I'll talk about some of the stories that took place as I was growing up in Lebanon.
00:05:27.700So the photo on the left is how Lebanon looked.
00:05:31.620The photo on the right is exactly my childhood.
00:05:35.460So it went from supposedly the Paris of the Middle East, a, quote, progressive, modern, tolerant country.
00:05:44.020And I say, quote, because tolerance in the Middle East has a very different connotation from tolerance in the Western mindset.
00:05:53.480You're tolerated until you're not tolerated.
00:05:55.880You're tolerated until you have to wear running shoes and run fast so that your head is not detached from the rest of your body, as happened to us.
00:06:04.260So let me give you a bit of a sense of what it was to grow up in progressive, tolerant Lebanon before the civil war.
00:06:13.000Because oftentimes people say, oh, but that's the anti-Semitism in the Middle East.
00:06:17.360That's just because of, you know, the Israel dynamic.
00:06:20.120Nothing could be further from the truth.
00:06:22.620Jew hatred is baked within the DNA of the society.
00:07:02.100And when he passed away, as often happens in the Middle East, people take to the streets and they engage in these kind of orgiastic lamentations.
00:07:10.760And as they were proceeding down my street, where we lived in Beirut, we lived in an area just at the border of the line that's dividing the East and West Beirut, which was a no-go zone during the civil war.
00:07:26.160It was in the Jewish quarter, close to the Jewish quarter.
00:07:30.280And as thousands of people were passing by lamenting the death of an Egyptian president in Lebanon, the main chant was, death to Jews, death to Jews.
00:07:41.660Now from the perspective of a five-year-old, I hadn't turned six at that point, this is 1970, I was confused.
00:07:50.520Mommy, why are they screaming death to Jews?
00:07:55.320She said, be quiet, just hide, don't make yourself seen, because I was looking over the balcony.
00:08:00.900And so already there, at the age of five, I saw that there was a problem.
00:08:05.880The whole bunch of people seemed to hate us, and we had nothing to do with the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser.
00:08:13.340And of course, some of you who follow me on social media will see me refer to Jews as the evil juice.
00:08:20.700And that actually comes from this brilliant guy who is calling for the genocide of Jews, and yet he doesn't grant us the courtesy of spelling us properly.
00:08:46.160And in this photo, I don't know why I won't point to him, although he doesn't deserve the courtesy of not being pointed to.
00:08:54.260There is a young boy who the teacher asked us to all stand up.
00:08:59.480This is, I'm about, this is 1974, so maybe about one year before the start of the Civil War.
00:09:05.940So the teacher asked us to each stand up and say what we wish to be when we grow up.
00:09:10.900I want to be a nurse, I want to be a soldier, I want to be a doctor.
00:09:15.260And then one kid in that class photo stood up and said, when I grow up, I want to be a Jew killer.
00:09:22.400And everybody, to everybody's raucous claps and laughter.
00:09:26.680This was progressive, tolerant Lebanon, which you're now seeing normalized in Canada, which I've been warning people for 25 years that it's coming for you.
00:09:37.260Don't think because you live in Mississauga that you'll be protected.
00:09:40.600There's 1,400 years of history that suggests that you should be paying attention.
00:24:34.860This is an example of something that Himmler and Hitler would have been proud of.
00:24:42.980Look at the beautiful Nazi iconography.
00:24:46.520I mean, this photo is really, I mean, straight out of Nazi cartoons, right?
00:24:51.140So the left photo is the sad truth about happiness, eight secrets for leading the good life.
00:24:57.100The one that's on the right that's been, it's all over the internet, the sad truth about the Talmud, eight secrets for enslaving the Goyim, Gadsad, best-selling author of The Parasitic Jew.
00:26:06.780So there were all sorts of reasons why people were getting offended by my positions, but it had not too much to do with being Jewish.
00:26:14.800Whereas now, anything that I say is ultimately linked back to me being a parasitic Jew.
00:26:22.180So remember, a few slides ago, I put up a clip, a slide where I said that the first source of Jew hatred comes from the progressive left and the academic left.
00:26:37.240So I'm going to save all of the parents here who are going to send their kids to study political science at any university or sometimes it's called Near East Studies departments.
00:26:48.900I'm going to save you $80,000 a year by telling you what's on the syllabus.
00:26:54.180Prior to 1948, Jews and Arabs lived in beautiful, peaceful, noble, inclusive Palestine.
00:27:01.260There was zero Jew hatred in the Middle East.
00:27:05.120As a matter of fact, Islam reveres the Jews.
00:27:09.040Then a bunch of bloodthirsty white Zionists from Europe with zero claims to that land created terrorism and ethically cleansed the noble Palestinians who had accepted the Jews and protected them.
00:27:21.260Over the past 75 years, the Zionists have committed a genocide on people who simply wish to live in peace.
00:27:27.980The Zionists are modern-day Nazis, indistinguishable from those Nazis who exterminated the Jews, albeit the Jews have greatly exaggerated the numbers of Jews killed.
00:27:39.860I've just summarized for you, not facetiously, not hyperbolically, exactly what is taught at every university.
00:27:47.780So even if I go to that university without any a priori bias to the Jewish cause and to Israel, once all of my revered professors teach me this and I have a very malleable mind, I'm 19 years old and 20 years old and I have been inculcated in the oppressed binary narrative,
00:28:09.900then yeah, me too, I'm going to wear the very fashionable keffiyeh and go death to Jews downtown Montreal because I don't know any better, right?
00:28:19.300And here's an example of, you know, you often hear about a picture that is equivalent to a thousand words or whatever the maxim is.
00:28:27.880Well, here you've got Faris Odeh, right, the kid.
00:28:31.180You know, he's just an innocent young kid.
00:28:34.100He only has a slingshot or a rock and then you've got the really nasty Zionist tank.
00:28:40.780Well, if I see that image and I don't know anything more, I just freeze that image, well then, yeah, me too, sign me up.
00:28:46.740The Palestinians are kind, loving, peaceful, and the Jews are inherently genocidal.
00:28:55.980So I often put up these rather, well, the reality is I put up these polls on Twitter because irrespective of what the results come out, my point will typically be made.
00:29:14.120So here I put up a, Israel is bombing Gaza today.
00:29:18.740So this is not even a month after October 7th because, one, Jews are inherently genocidal.
00:29:28.580Two, Hamas slaughtered and raped, well, at the time it was 1,400.
00:30:30.74038%, 37.4% said that you, so here's an easy test we can do.
00:30:36.560For all of the people who answered 37.4%, write your personal address and we'll do two experiments.
00:30:44.700In one experiment, you'll criticize Moses and in the other one, you'll criticize Muhammad and then we'll find out if this poll is veridical or not.
00:30:54.340But that's the kind of debauchery of the human mind that you're seeing.
00:30:59.900And it's very, very frustrating for someone like me because I'm committed to the fight.
00:31:04.580I do it at great personal and professional cost.
00:31:07.860But yet the tsunami that's coming at you is just relentless.
00:33:18.300And so its innate instinct is to be completely away from water, yet it merrily jumps into the water and commits suicide once it is parasitized by this hairworm.
00:33:30.260So now you could see the analogy that I'm using in arguing that human beings can be parasitized by idea pathogens, right?
00:33:42.020And so in the book, I talk about how the university ecosystem has parasitized generations of students who then become our walking idiot prime minister.
00:34:00.860But the reason I mention it here is of relevance to, you know, the Jew-related issues.
00:34:05.440Well, first, what could be a greater manifestation of parasitic thinking than to be queers for Palestine, right?
00:34:16.700As I often tell people, in Gaza, they have a very, very effective conversion program.
00:34:25.200It's a gravity-based conversion program.
00:34:30.000We implement it on you, and voila, you're no longer queer, right?
00:34:34.580So imagine if your goal is to present yourself to the world with your queerness as being your primary identity that you present to the world.
00:35:19.200So Anna Epstein is so progressive as a Jew, not unlike you guys, you're cretins, but she's progressive because she goes to a fancy American school so that she was one of the ones that was caught on tape, being recorded, very angrily taken down the posters of the Jewish babies that were kidnapped.
00:35:46.200So imagine, I hope that her parents are facing great consternation because they say, wait a minute, so I'm paying $80,000, on Saturday we have to go to the synagogue, and then on Thursday you're pulling out the...
00:36:02.200Now, by the way, had she been at the Nova Music Festival, it would have been a really nice case of gang unreported lovemaking, also known as rape.
00:36:14.160But we don't want to say rape because that marginalizes the rapist, so I call it undocumented lovemaking.
00:36:19.140So, there is Anna Epstein, super progressive.
00:36:25.900Of course, you've got chickens for KFC is not mine, but the one on the left is mine because I speak French.
00:36:50.140It's only Amir told me that it has to be a shorter talk, otherwise I would have kept here until tomorrow morning for my flight.
00:36:56.220Let me talk to you about this fantastically progressive and bright doctoral student, Jewish doctoral student, Tal Nitzan, at Hebrew University.
00:37:07.100Now, Tal Nitzan is so progressive, Israeli Tal Nitzan, Jewish Tal Nitzan, that she wanted to do her doctoral work demonstrating how vile and violent the IDF soldiers are.
00:37:24.380They're engaging in rampant, orgiastic rape of Palestinian women.
00:37:29.480So, she did the hard work, and she went and looked for those cases.
00:37:35.260She found not a single instance of rape.
00:37:59.320Because usually, when I pose this to people, they could never think so diabolically, so parasitically.
00:38:05.180So, it turns out that her hypothesis was validated.
00:38:11.900Israeli soldiers are truly diabolical.
00:38:14.420Because had they engaged in rape, they would have been evil.
00:38:19.560But the fact that they didn't engage in rape, because they are so othering the Palestinian women, that they don't consider them worthy of rape, is also a form of existential rape.
00:38:32.440How are you going to survive as a Jewish person if you've got Tal Nitzan running the show?
00:39:43.740So, I shared with her a montage of various sources, not only imams, I mean, largely religious figures, but it could have been journalists, it could have been politicians, it could have been kids in kindergarten, comedy shows, Lebanese soap operas.
00:40:03.620And so, it's maybe 22, 24-minute montage where they are sharing what they think of the Jews.
00:40:11.720And it's stuff that really would make Hitler feel a bit ashamed.
00:40:15.880No, that's too much Jew hatred for me, Hitler would say, right?
00:40:20.140When I shared this with her, her response was, you are no different in your extremism than them.
00:40:47.960Now, to her credit, 14 years later, about three months ago, I received an email from her, because now she's seeing what's happening in Montreal.
00:40:57.620And she said, hmm, yeah, I think you were right.
00:41:00.600I was, I shouldn't have answered you the way that I did 14 years ago.
00:41:03.800But it took her 14 years before she realized.
00:41:10.520Let's continue with the parasitic thinking.
00:41:13.100The guy on the left refers to himself as a feminist and anti-racist ally, activist.
00:41:52.160Well, this super kind and empathetic person felt horrible about the fact that his sodomizer was now going to go back to Somalia, where he couldn't live a full life.
00:42:09.680So, I'm an evolutionary psychologist, so I understand one or two things about, you know, how emotions evolve.
00:42:16.180The emotion of vindictiveness, revenge, exists, because under certain circumstances, it makes perfect adaptive sense for us to feel that.
00:42:26.480If you come to try to rape my daughter, well, you better hope that you're successful and kill me, because otherwise, I'm coming after everybody in your family and killing all of them.
00:42:36.240And it is that dynamic that keeps tribe A from not attacking tribe B.
00:42:42.980But imagine if now you have a society where it is laudable to do all the things that millions of years of evolution has allowed your brain to properly respond to certain conditions.
00:42:57.900And so, usually, you would not expect that if you're raped, you set up an allyship with your sodomizer.
00:43:47.700The best way to move forward is to grant entry into millions of more people who hate our societies.
00:43:53.900It will all work out because progressive empathy.
00:43:57.560That's the topic of my next book, Suicidal Empathy.
00:44:00.040The emotion of empathy is perfectly valid, and there are very clear evolutionary reasons why we've evolved the emotion of empathy.
00:44:14.460Certainly as a social species, you want to have the capacity to be empathetic towards your conspecifics, your people in the same species as you.
00:44:23.680But the problem is when an emotion misfires, or the problem is when an emotion misfires to the wrong target.
00:44:32.420So you end up with, it's more important to let in millions of people from El Salvador than it is to invest in your American veterans, right?
00:44:41.840So the empathy is being misdirected to the wrong target.
00:44:45.600It is more important to allow the homeless people to shoot up in the park than to have a space for children to be able to play.
00:44:56.420And so the next book is going to be exactly on that.
00:44:59.120What happens when you have a society that's completely parasitized by this suicidal empathy?
00:45:06.860And then finally, the one on the right, which has become the stand.
00:45:10.580I now satirize it all day long on my social media platform.
00:45:14.200So please, please, please, if you see Jewish students being attacked on university campuses, Jewish elementary schools being shot at, elderly Jews being attacked,
00:45:25.940make sure to increase your commitment to fight Islamophobia.
00:45:31.160So it's, and there is never a simple condemnation of Jew hatred.
00:45:40.880It always has to be coupled with Islamophobia.
00:45:45.240Well, there is this thing called data.
00:45:48.120And you can see whether Canada is experiencing rampant Jew hatred or rampant Islamophobia.
00:45:55.120But that's what happens when your politicians are parasitized.
00:45:59.580Here's another example of parasitic thinking.
00:46:02.160Some of you may, but I suspect that many of you may not have heard of the industrial scale level of grooming gangs in England, in Britain, throughout up and down Britain.
00:46:24.300Hundreds and hundreds of cases in many, many cities.
00:46:27.640In all those cases, I mean, 99% of the cases, they tend to, the perpetrators of undocumented lovemaking tend to originate from one particular group.
00:46:40.140But in Europe, they've developed these very progressive euphemisms.
00:46:45.180So in France, the folks that come from that ideological background are called les jeunes.
00:52:41.980The San Bernardino case about 10 years ago, husband and wife team, I think, from Pakistan.
00:52:47.980It's because at work they were beard bullying him.
00:52:52.180That's why I keep my beard really tight.
00:52:54.760Because if it grows longer and then some of you may tease me about it, here comes ISIS.
00:52:59.080Bill Nye, the science guy, explained to us that the Bataclan attack in Paris, where 180 plus people were mowed down, where the guys who mowed them down said why they did it.
00:53:15.520He said, oh no, it's because of lack of solar panels.
00:53:18.680How are you going to win the war to save civilization when those are the voices that are being heard?