The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - My Cornell Lecture on Jew-Hatred (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_665)

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00:02:34.720 With that, I'd like to introduce Gadd said, a Cornell alum who got his M.S. and Ph.D. in 1993 and 1994

00:02:43.720 with Jay Russo, who's sitting right there.

00:02:47.720 Yesterday you heard about how much Gadd loves Cornell, how much he's loved.

00:02:53.720 Now he can see Jay.

00:02:55.720 And then he went on to become the people's professor.

00:03:00.720 So with that, I'd like to introduce Gadd.

00:03:12.720 Hi, everybody.

00:03:13.720 It's good to see you.

00:03:14.720 Please, when we go to the Q&A period, don't ask any difficult questions because I need to

00:03:19.720 continue to impress my former doctoral supervisor.

00:03:22.720 So please be gentle on me.

00:03:24.720 So, of course, it's terribly disheartening that I even need to be invited to speak about eternal Jew hatred. 0.76

00:03:34.720 And as you'll see, I'll describe my personal history, which will...

00:03:38.720 There's another one of my former professors, Thomas Gilovich.

00:03:42.720 Look at that.

00:03:43.720 Nice to see you.

00:03:44.720 So I'll walk us through a bit of a personal history, which...

00:03:53.720 So not only have I thought about this in an academic sense, how Jew hatred could be a type of parasitic idea,

00:04:00.720 but certainly, given my personal history...

00:04:02.720 Yes?

00:04:03.720 Oh, you want to turn it on?

00:04:04.720 Okay.

00:04:05.720 Is this better?

00:04:06.720 No?

00:04:07.720 Testing one, two, one, two?

00:04:08.720 No?

00:04:09.720 Yes?

00:04:10.720 We're good?

00:04:11.720 Okay.

00:04:12.720 So given my personal history, I think I'm well qualified to speak on this topic.

00:04:15.720 So the eternal hatred of Jews from Beirut to the West.

00:04:31.720 Let's start with this.

00:04:33.720 There are two images here that you see.

00:04:36.720 One of them, the colorful one, is the one that I grew up in up to the age of 10.

00:04:42.720 And then the Civil War broke out in Lebanon.

00:04:45.720 And all butchery is judged in comparison to the unbelievable brutality of the Lebanese Civil War.

00:04:54.720 Neighbors became the most fervent enemies from one day to the next.

00:04:59.720 Now, if you were Jewish, it was particularly challenging,

00:05:02.720 because there weren't going to be many roadblocks that you would clear.

00:05:06.720 What would happen in Beirut early in the Civil War is there'd be random roadblocks set up by different militia,

00:05:13.720 and they would ask you to show your, in Arabic, you say,

00:05:16.720 Hawi, your internal ID card.

00:05:18.720 And the most conspicuous thing on your internal ID card is your religion.

00:05:23.720 And Jews was written, it wasn't even written Jewish, which would be in Arabic, Yahudi.

00:05:28.720 It was written Israeli, which means Israelite.

00:05:31.720 So if there wasn't enough animus for you for being Jewish, 0.98

00:05:35.720 then we're going to ramp it up by making you an Israelite.

00:05:39.720 And so you really couldn't go anywhere.

00:05:41.720 Death awaited you around every corner.

00:05:44.720 Luckily, we escaped after the first year of the Civil War. 1.00

00:05:48.720 And so I'll tell you about some of the stories that I thought were in my rearview mirror for the past many decades.

00:05:56.720 And, but boy, have they come back to haunt me today.

00:06:01.720 And certainly after October 7th, the level of Jew hatred that I've experienced has been truly astounding. 0.55

00:06:08.720 So buckle up. 1.00

00:06:10.720 So this story, I call it, well, because it's Death to Jews, Death to Jews. 1.00

00:06:16.720 And if you see there, there's a picture of a gentleman holding a sign saying, Death to all Jews. 0.99

00:06:24.720 If you're going to call for a genocidal extermination, at least have the decency to pronounce us, I mean, to spell us correctly. 0.87

00:06:32.720 So that became a famous meme where usually when I say, for example, Shabbat Shalom, 0.72

00:06:37.720 I will write to all of the evil Jews in reference to that particular meme. 1.00

00:06:43.720 Now, the gentleman to my left is Gamal Abdel Nasser, who was the president of Egypt. 0.90

00:06:51.720 He was a pan-Arabist trying to unify all of the Arab states.

00:06:55.720 He was very much loved and respected in the Arab world.

00:06:58.720 Well, in 1970, he passed away when I was five.

00:07:01.720 I wasn't quite six years old yet.

00:07:03.720 And the reason why I tell this story is because, as so often happens in the Middle East, when one of these figures passes away,

00:07:11.720 people take to the streets in these very feverish demonstrations.

00:07:15.720 And when people were passing by our house in the thousands, all I could hear as a five-year-old boy was death to Jews, death to Jews.

00:07:24.720 Now, it wasn't clear to me why the call death to Jews was happening when I was five years old because an Egyptian president had passed away.

00:07:31.720 And so when you hear about Lebanon having been the Paris of the Middle East and it was so progressive and tolerant and so on,

00:07:40.720 yes, in comparison to the rest of the Middle East.

00:07:44.720 But in comparison to what the Western mind can understand, then it's certainly not very tolerant.

00:07:50.720 Jew hatred is embedded within the DNA of the societies in the Middle East, as I will explain in several of these next slides. 0.92

00:08:00.720 This is actually a photo from one of my schools.

00:08:04.720 This is me right here.

00:08:08.720 And in that photo, I don't know why I grant that kid the courtesy to not identify him 50 years later,

00:08:17.720 but the teacher had asked us to stand up and tell the class what we wished to be when we grew up.

00:08:27.720 And this is before the Civil War.

00:08:30.720 There was no Civil War.

00:08:31.720 This is around probably 73, 74.

00:08:35.720 So one kid gets up.

00:08:37.720 I want to be a policeman.

00:08:38.720 I want to be a doctor.

00:08:40.720 I want to be a soccer player.

00:08:42.720 And one kid gets up knowing that there is a Jewish kid who's supposedly his friend in the class. 0.95

00:08:48.720 He says, when I grow up, I want to be a Jew killer to the raucous applause and laughter of everyone in the room.

00:08:57.720 Now, that wasn't, you know, due to the October 7th crisis. 0.92

00:09:03.720 It wasn't because of the Zionist occupation.

00:09:06.720 My family had never been to Israel.

00:09:08.720 My extended family, there's a lot of my family that lives in Israel for many years,

00:09:12.720 but certainly my nuclear family had never been to Israel.

00:09:14.720 We had nothing to do with Israel.

00:09:16.720 So the I want to be a Jew killer was certainly not because he was resisting the occupation. 0.60

00:09:22.720 My brother was an Olympian in 1976.

00:09:28.720 These are the actual newspapers from Lebanon.

00:09:33.720 David Saad right here, champion of Lebanon.

00:09:37.720 So for several years in a row, my brother had been Lebanese national champion in Judo.

00:09:44.720 And it became a bit embarrassing for the relevant authorities that a Jew was constantly winning the competitions. 0.88

00:09:53.720 And so he was visited by some men that explained to him that it was time for him to retire or else, you know, some accidents can happen.

00:10:01.720 And then he ended up leaving to Paris, France to continue his Judo training.

00:10:07.720 He was never allowed to represent Lebanon because he was Jewish.

00:10:11.720 This is tolerant, progressive Paris of the Middle East Lebanon.

00:10:16.720 But interestingly, they forgave him for being Jewish when in 1976 at the Montreal Olympics,

00:10:24.720 they were more than happy to have him represent proudly the Lebanese flag.

00:10:30.720 I think he was only one of five members on the Olympic team that represented Lebanon.

00:10:37.720 So the Jewish, the Lebanese Jewish kid who was forced to leave Lebanon then represented Lebanon a couple of years later.

00:10:49.720 This is an actual photo of my parents when they got married in 1950.

00:10:54.720 On one of the return trips, so we emigrated to Canada at the end of the 1975.

00:11:03.720 They kept going back to Lebanon, which wasn't a very rational decision, but they still had business interests and so on.

00:11:12.720 So even after we had emigrated to Montreal, they would go back and forth from Montreal to Beirut.

00:11:18.720 And on one of their trips, this is in full-fledged civil war in 1980, they were kidnapped by Fatah, one of the Palestinian groups.

00:11:30.720 And then it's only because of our family's connections, everything in the Middle East happens, you know, 1.00

00:11:37.720 if you have the appropriate connections.

00:11:39.720 Miraculously, we were able to get them out.

00:11:42.720 I think they spent eight days in captivity.

00:11:45.720 Some really, really bad things happened to them.

00:11:48.720 And then since 1980, none of our family has ever returned, even though I have been invited subsequent to, you know,

00:11:54.720 becoming a professor and, you know, known and so on by even, you know, prime minister's office and so on.

00:12:01.720 But I've never felt sufficiently...

00:12:03.720 Actually, I was invited to apply.

00:12:06.720 They wanted me to apply for a deanship of a business school in Lebanon.

00:12:10.720 I don't know if that would have been a trap, but I probably would have lasted 14 seconds after arriving and landing in Beirut.

00:12:17.720 So this is the reality of being Jewish in the Middle East in the best of circumstances. 0.81

00:12:22.720 Lebanon truly was the most tolerant place for Jews out of all of the Middle East.

00:12:28.720 So if you look, I'll show you some slides about how Jews have fared in the rest of the Middle East.

00:12:34.720 Now, this is a very powerful story.

00:12:38.720 I'm going to wear my glasses.

00:12:39.720 So I'm going to read you first a...

00:12:41.720 In chapter one of The Parasitic Mind, this was the talk that I gave yesterday.

00:12:46.720 This was one of my books in 2020.

00:12:49.720 In order to kind of introduce why some of these issues interest me, for example, identity politics and so on,

00:12:57.720 there is no society that is more a perfect exemplar of identity politics than Lebanon. 0.98

00:13:04.720 Everything is based on your religious heritage.

00:13:07.720 The number of people that serve in Parliament depends...

00:13:11.720 So you get a certain number of people that are Maronites, that are Sunni Muslim, that are this... 0.96

00:13:16.720 But you certainly...

00:13:17.720 You have one seat for Jews, which is now, of course, not filled,

00:13:22.720 but you certainly could never be President or Prime Minister in Lebanon.

00:13:26.720 Both positions are there.

00:13:27.720 And so this is a story...

00:13:30.720 I tell many personal stories in The Parasitic Mind.

00:13:33.720 I'm just going to read you this verbatim,

00:13:35.720 and then I'm going to link it to something that happened just a few months ago.

00:13:38.720 So the next memory that I have is perhaps one of the most poignant ones of my life.

00:13:43.720 The flight captain declared that we were out of Lebanese airspace.

00:13:47.720 This is literally the day that we're flying out of Lebanon to Montreal via Copenhagen.

00:13:54.720 So the flight captain declared that we were out of Lebanese airspace,

00:13:58.720 at which point my mother took out a chain with a Star of David,

00:14:04.720 or it could have been a Chai.

00:14:06.720 I can't exactly remember.

00:14:07.720 I'm almost certain that it's a Star of David.

00:14:09.720 And then she placed it around my neck and said,

00:14:11.720 Now you can wear this, not hide your identity, and be proud of who you are.

00:14:15.720 So this was, I mean, literally within a few minutes of flying out of Lebanon.

00:14:21.720 Now I'm going to read you what happened a few months ago that also relates to a Star of David.

00:14:28.720 I was just picked up...

00:14:31.720 This happened on October 21st, and that's why I took the screenshot of the tweet.

00:14:36.720 I was just picked up by my wife who had taken our son to a soccer match.

00:14:40.720 When I got into the car, this is what my son said to me.

00:14:43.720 If you were wearing a Magen David, a Star of David, Daddy, you'd be dead,

00:14:48.720 in reference to where he had just played the match.

00:14:51.720 This is in Montreal, Canada, in the east end of the city,

00:14:55.720 which comes with a particular demographic reality.

00:14:59.720 I'll leave you to all very bright Cornelians to think what that demographic reality might be.

00:15:05.720 And so the Star of David had come full circle.

00:15:08.720 I left Lebanon.

00:15:10.720 You can wear the Star of David proudly.

00:15:12.720 Almost 50 years later, you better not wear Star of David in Montreal, Daddy, or you'd be dead.

00:15:18.720 I've told my son to not say that he's Jewish when he plays soccer matches in many places in Montreal.

00:15:26.720 But people merely go on picking up their tomatoes and cooking their meals while the monster comes.

00:15:40.720 I won't go through all of these, but the top number shows you the number of Jews

00:15:45.720 that used to be in Lebanon in one particular time period and the number of Jews that remain.

00:15:52.720 Some of the numbers you want to look at, how many Jews in Libya? Zero.

00:15:56.720 How many in Egypt? About 100.

00:15:58.720 By the way, my brother-in-law's family are Egyptian Jews from Alexandria.

00:16:02.720 There's no longer any Jews in Egypt.

00:16:06.720 There's almost no Jews in Algeria, very few in Morocco, very few in Tunisia, almost none in Syria.

00:16:14.720 Some of my grandparents come from Syria.

00:16:19.720 There's one estimate places the number of Jews in my homeland of Lebanon at about 40.

00:16:25.720 But these are 40 Jews that no longer display their allegiance to Jews.

00:16:30.720 So they got married to some Christian woman in 1957.

00:16:33.720 So yes, they are technically Jewish, but there's no Jewish community.

00:16:37.720 So the only place where there is any semblance of some sort of Jewish community is in Iran.

00:16:43.720 But again, even there, be quiet Jew, right? 1.00

00:16:48.720 So we tolerate you until, inshallah, one day we won't tolerate you. 0.94

00:16:52.720 That's the reality.

00:16:55.720 Here is a Pew survey that shows...

00:16:59.720 So Pew surveys are certainly respectable.

00:17:03.720 They're certainly nonpartisan.

00:17:05.720 It shows you the percentage of polled people from those...

00:17:12.720 And by the way, it applies to all the other countries in that region.

00:17:16.720 What is the endemic Jew hatred in those societies?

00:17:19.720 Well, if I would have told you, well, you know, 10% of the polled people have bad views of the Jews.

00:17:25.720 Well, you would say, wow, 10% is a big number.

00:17:28.720 What if I told you that most of those societies have 95 to 99% Jew hatred?

00:17:35.720 So now if you let in 500,000 people from those societies into your culture,

00:17:41.720 and yes, I don't have to preface it with most people who are of the Islamic faith are lovely,

00:17:48.720 and I literally have many Muslim friends more than any of you have ever met.

00:17:53.720 That doesn't mean that if you come with a certain set of baggage, culturally and religiously,

00:18:00.720 that that's not going to be a problem.

00:18:02.720 If 95 to 99% of people that are polled have a very ugly view of Jews,

00:18:09.720 and then there is a massive increase of such people in your society,

00:18:14.720 it doesn't probably take a fancy professor to tell you that we can predict that Jew hatred will increase.

00:18:21.720 It really is that simple.

00:18:26.720 This is the noble United Nations.

00:18:30.720 This is from a few years ago, but the data is probably worse now since October 7th.

00:18:35.720 It lists the number of countries that have received condemnations from the United Nations

00:18:42.720 versus the number of condemnations that Israel has received.

00:18:47.720 You know, last I checked, there were quite a few nasty people in the neighborhood.

00:18:51.720 There is North Korea, there is China, there is maybe Yemen is not very nice. 1.00

00:18:56.720 Maybe there's all kinds of really nasty folks around the world.

00:18:59.720 Well, it turns out that the total number of condemnations, the rest of the world is 55.

00:19:09.720 Israel has more condemnations than the entire world combined.

00:19:16.720 That seems like a pretty fair and unbiased body.

00:19:22.720 So, Jew hatred is truly the canary in the coal mine.

00:19:25.720 It's not, of course, it's not the only hatred that exists.

00:19:28.720 A lot of people will write to me on social media, well, why do you focus on Jew hatred? 0.98

00:19:33.720 Well, maybe because I'm Jewish and I am the recipient of how we're going to put you in the oven, Jew. 1.00

00:19:39.720 That doesn't mean, of course, that doesn't negate the fact that there's an endless other forms of hatred. 0.98

00:19:45.720 But there is something uniquely insidious and existentially diabolical about Jew hatred.

00:19:53.720 And I could certainly spend several hours talking about why that is the case.

00:19:57.720 And there is an expression, a saying in the Middle East.

00:20:02.720 First, we come for the Saturday people and then we come for the Sunday people.

00:20:08.720 So, the hatred may start with the Jews, but we're coming for you next. 1.00

00:20:14.720 The idea of if I bury my head in the sand, it's going to go away, it won't go away.

00:20:19.720 And there's 1400 years of history that couldn't be any clearer.

00:20:23.720 If I made up the data, I couldn't make it up to be as unequivocally clear as that.

00:20:28.720 But Westerners, you see, are very lovely and tolerant and kind.

00:20:32.720 And so, they don't like to hear such words.

00:20:35.720 I'm all for immigration. I'm an immigrant, right?

00:20:38.720 So, I don't need to be lectured about the beauty of immigration.

00:20:42.720 But it has to be immigrants who share in your deontological values. 1.00

00:20:46.720 If the immigrants say, once we become the majority, your freedoms will no longer be the same, 0.74

00:20:54.720 then maybe we need to pay a bit of attention to that.

00:20:57.720 So, there are three fundamental sources of Jew hatred. 0.88

00:21:02.720 There is the academic left, the oppressed-oppressor binary, which is thought at every single Near East department in Canada and the US and the West in general or political science department.

00:21:17.720 And so, that creates a certain animus towards, they say Zionists, but that's not true.

00:21:24.720 It's Jews. 0.99

00:21:26.720 Okay? 0.99

00:21:27.720 Then there is the ultra-right kind of white nationalist, the Charlottesville guys, Jews won't replace us gang. 0.99

00:21:34.720 And then number three are, of course, the Islamic sources of Jew hatred. 0.94

00:21:39.720 And after October 7, what really amazed me was the extent to which everywhere I turned, left, right and center, I just couldn't keep up with the amount of Jew hatred that I was receiving.

00:21:53.720 And it's not, you know, I don't, I mean, I'm a very straight-talking person, but I'm not unnecessarily inflammatory, I don't go out of my way to insult individual people.

00:22:04.720 I criticize broad things, ideologies, and if you see the stuff, you wouldn't believe the kind of stuff I receive.

00:22:10.720 I receive it from all three gangs, but I'll probably focus a lot more on the third one, since that's my background.

00:22:18.720 This is my reality at my university.

00:22:22.720 I wrote an article that really upset my administration.

00:22:29.720 Why are you writing about the Jew hatred that you're facing at your university?

00:22:35.720 That's what upset them.

00:22:38.720 Not the fact that many Jewish students over the past ten years have come to me furtively and looking around saying,

00:22:46.720 you know, I'm afraid to ever wear a kippah or Star of David on campus.

00:22:50.720 My university has been referred to colloquially as Gaza University for over 20 years.

00:22:55.720 But that didn't impress my administrators.

00:22:57.720 What impressed them is, why are you making so much noise, Jew boy? 1.00

00:23:02.720 They didn't say the Jew boy, but that's the sentiment.

00:23:05.720 Okay?

00:23:06.720 Well, why are you writing these national articles that are read by many people in Canada?

00:23:12.720 It's making us look bad. 0.99

00:23:14.720 Just shut up. 1.00

00:23:15.720 Oh, and by the way, let's try to create a world where we eradicate Islamophobia. 0.98

00:23:20.720 So, if the Jewish students and Jewish professors contact the administration to say that, you know, we're afraid to come to campus,

00:23:30.720 then the president of the university releases a statement saying that it's really important that we fight against Islamophobia.

00:23:38.720 And the reason why he does that is because numbers matter.

00:23:43.720 Jews are now a much smaller population in Montreal than Islamic students and therefore you dance to your greater constituency, right? 1.00

00:23:57.720 So, the photo on the right, or to my right, is riot police, Montreal police.

00:24:04.720 This is not campus police.

00:24:06.720 Even though your campus police is actually a real police, you have guns.

00:24:10.720 Our campus police is just part-time guys that, you know, carry walkie-talkies.

00:24:15.720 But these are armed riot gear that are standing outside the university to protect Jewish students and Jewish professors.

00:24:27.720 As far as it is for me being rather high profile at this point, it's almost impossible for me to go to campus.

00:24:37.720 So, many of the classes I taught last semester, I had to do them via Zoom.

00:24:42.720 Now, I'm on sabbatical and so I have a bit of a respite.

00:24:46.720 But September is going to come around and we'll see what happens then.

00:24:49.720 I mentioned this yesterday at yesterday's talk when I spoke about the parasitic mind.

00:24:55.720 My wife and her concern about my safety has come to many of my classes where she walks around me as though she's a six-foot-four guard,

00:25:04.720 looking around everywhere to make sure that who's going to come and knife me.

00:25:09.720 This is not happening in Sana'a, Yemen.

00:25:12.720 This is not happening in Lahore, Pakistan.

00:25:15.720 This is happening in Montreal, Canada.

00:25:18.720 And you can blow it away and, well, that doesn't really affect me.

00:25:22.720 But it will affect you in five minutes, in five years, or in 500 years.

00:25:27.720 It will affect you.

00:25:29.720 There are 56 countries today that used to one sting, it won't affect them.

00:25:34.720 And today, they're almost 100% Islamic.

00:25:39.720 This is a copy of my latest book,

00:25:45.720 The Sad Truth About Happiness, Eight Secrets for Leading the Good Life.

00:25:50.720 And then one of the really noble and lovely straight-out-of-Nazi iconography memes that have been released

00:25:57.720 is The Sad Truth About the Talmud. 0.93

00:26:00.720 Look at how I look, diabolical, parasitic. 0.98

00:26:05.720 Eight Secrets for Enslaving the Goyim, best-selling author of The Parasitic Jew. 0.99

00:26:12.720 It's straight out of Nazi talk. 0.76

00:26:15.720 I have 100,000 of these.

00:26:19.720 You could not worry about it.

00:26:21.720 You're in Ithaca.

00:26:22.720 It doesn't matter here.

00:26:23.720 It will matter.

00:26:28.720 So let me tell you about Ithaca.

00:26:31.720 Some of you may have heard that story because it's part of the lore now,

00:26:35.720 but some of you may have not, so let me mention it.

00:26:37.720 My time at Cornell was magical.

00:26:42.720 I need to infinitely thank this lovely mentor who trained me how to think.

00:26:47.720 So I owe him a lot.

00:26:49.720 Thomas Gilovich was a professor of mine for one of my courses.

00:26:52.720 And so all my professors here, everything, the whole ecosystem at Cornell.

00:26:57.720 I couldn't have hoped for better training.

00:27:00.720 I mean truly.

00:27:01.720 I'm not saying it because I'm at Cornell.

00:27:03.720 Although I have also criticized Ithaca generally for being super woke, right?

00:27:08.720 BLM signs, transgender of color, people, lives matter, love is love, and the rest of the stuff.

00:27:15.720 But Cornell is a gorgeous place.

00:27:18.720 I've not faced, I certainly didn't face much Jew hatred when I was here many years ago.

00:27:24.720 But this is what happened the first semester I got here.

00:27:28.720 So I quickly became friends with a bunch of Arabic students through a Lebanese contact.

00:27:34.720 And we used to always go and play, pick up soccer together here on campus.

00:27:41.720 And one of the friends, who's an Arabic, a Muslim guy, asked me once to, he invited me once to get together for coffee.

00:27:51.720 I don't know if some of you remember Cafe Decadence.

00:27:54.720 You remember, this was in college town just before Aladins, which also I regret to have found out no longer exists.

00:28:05.720 These are some of the places we used to hang out.

00:28:07.720 And so I went out with this student who was doing his engineering, I think his master's in engineering.

00:28:14.720 And we were sitting around just chatting.

00:28:16.720 And first he said, well, you know, Gad, you seem like to be a very bright person.

00:28:22.720 Well, thank you.

00:28:24.720 How come you haven't converted to Islam yet?

00:28:27.720 I said, oh, is this why we're having coffee at Decadence?

00:28:31.720 Because the conversation is not going to go well if you're trying to proselytize.

00:28:35.720 He said, no, no, no, it's okay.

00:28:37.720 So he realized, okay, that's off the topic.

00:28:39.720 Then later we were chatting and he sort of pensively looked at me and said, you know, Gad, I really like you.

00:28:46.720 I said, why do you say that with a bit of surprise?

00:28:50.720 Oh, I know why.

00:28:52.720 I'm not going to even mention his name, although he's not, he doesn't deserve the courtesy of me not mentioning his name.

00:28:58.720 I said, oh, you're surprised that you really like me because I'm Jewish.

00:29:03.720 But by the way, they're all Arabic speaker and Arabic is my mother tongue.

00:29:08.720 So we always spoke in Arabic and I was a very good soccer player.

00:29:12.720 So I said, oh, is it you like me because you don't, you're surprised that you like me because I'm Jewish?

00:29:19.720 And he said, well, no, but I mean, Gad, you're not a Jew, Jew. 0.98

00:29:23.720 I said, oh, no, I'm a Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew.

00:29:28.720 And he said, no, no, come on, you know what I mean.

00:29:31.720 So let's analyze what that logic is. 0.86

00:29:34.720 I've been bred, I'm speaking as him now, I've been bred straight out of the womb that the Jew is the cause of all calamities. 1.00

00:29:42.720 Then I meet one such Jew who speaks Arabic, who's just as Arabic as me, who's a much better soccer player than all of us combined, who's fun, who's sweet.

00:29:55.720 That doesn't go with what I've been taught.

00:29:58.720 So I have to remove the marker of him being a true Jew so that I can have cognitive consistency beyond Festinger, right? 0.84

00:30:09.720 And so it's a small story compared to the Jew hatred that I receive today.

00:30:14.720 It's nothing, but it captures that mindset.

00:30:18.720 And that happened right here, fall 1990.

00:30:22.720 Of course, the current reality at Cornell has gotten a lot worse. 0.99

00:30:26.720 Here we've got our main man trying to, you know, let's go out and kill the Jews. 0.95

00:30:33.720 And then here we've got, oh, yes, October 7th was so exhilarating, so energizing. 0.97

00:30:42.720 Now, again, think about what that, the fact that you could stand up knowing that you are being videotaped

00:30:52.720 and feel sufficiently emboldened to not self-censor and say, oof, maybe I should not say that.

00:30:59.720 That means the winds are changing, right? The zeitgeist is changing.

00:31:04.720 I'm probably on the right side to say there's something energizing, exhilarating about the systematic killing of 1,200, 1,300 people.

00:31:14.720 It's exciting. It invigorates me, right?

00:31:17.720 And now I hear that he's back at work. Is that correct?

00:31:21.720 He was put on leave, I think, for one semester.

00:31:24.720 So there you go. That's Cornell.

00:31:26.720 These three clowns, I mean, I won't talk much about it, but I basically argue that, you know, it's window dressing to when these folks step down. 0.92

00:31:38.720 Because the problem is a lot more endemic than that. It's window dressing. Okay, you step down. 0.97

00:31:43.720 But what's the general atmosphere at these universities? It isn't good. It certainly isn't good at Harvard.

00:31:49.720 Maybe it's a bit better here. But there are many, many universities now where it's...

00:31:55.720 I'm not saying that it's dangerous to be Jewish and that you're going to be beheaded.

00:31:59.720 But I know just because of the platform that I have, I receive endless emails from students who are Jewish from all kinds of universities who say,

00:32:10.720 I'm afraid to speak out. If we discuss some topic that's thorny, I just keep my mouth shut.

00:32:17.720 Is that a good thing to have? Probably not.

00:32:20.720 Now, this is just kind of an interesting fact.

00:32:23.720 In the parasitic mind, I talk about whether certain disciplines are inherently more likely to be, you know, more quickly parasitized by bad ideas.

00:32:34.720 And not surprisingly, you know, things like engineering or the business school, to the extent that there's an auto-corrective mechanism that's coupled to reality,

00:32:44.720 you're less likely to be parasitized in those fields than in some of the humanities and some of the other social sciences where you can have all kinds of esoteric theories that are completely removed from reality.

00:32:55.720 Well, the same kind of principle applies to Jew hatred. 0.92

00:32:58.720 So that in the business school and in economics and law, you're much more likely to condemn Hamas and support, you know, either condemn or support Hamas.

00:33:11.720 Well, in business and economics, it seems to be reasonable. In STEM, it seems to be reasonable.

00:33:17.720 But look what happens in the humanities and social sciences.

00:33:20.720 If they were truly some deontological truth that were there, you would think that people would be choosing A or B, irrespective of which discipline they're in.

00:33:31.720 But the fact that in some disciplines, you could have a complete reversal of how they view reality and through which prism they view it suggests that there is some indoctrination going on in some of these disciplines.

00:33:46.720 Here is what usually is being taught. I'll first read the tweet and then I will comment about the image to the right.

00:33:58.720 So let me provide you with the syllabus of every Near East studies course on Israel at every Western university.

00:34:06.720 You ready? I'm going to save you four years of tuition.

00:34:09.720 Prior to 1948, Jews and Arabs lived in beautiful, peaceful, noble, inclusive Palestine.

00:34:18.720 There was zero Jew hatred in the Middle East. As a matter of fact, Islam reveres the Jews.

00:34:25.720 There is a bunch of bloodthirsty white Zionists from Europe with zero claims to that land who created terrorism 1.00

00:34:33.720 and ethnically cleansed the noble Palestinians who had accepted the Jews and protected them. 0.91

00:34:38.720 Over the past 75 years, the Zionists have committed a genocide, it's actually a daily genocide, on people who simply wish to live in peace. 0.96

00:34:47.720 The Zionists are modern day Nazis, indistinguishable from those Nazis who exterminated the Jews, 0.90

00:34:54.720 albeit the Jews had greatly exaggerated the number of Jews killed so that they can garner sympathy points.

00:35:00.720 So that's, I mean, I'm not being hyperbolic or satirical, that really captures inherently the ongoing narrative at every department.

00:35:10.720 That's in Princeton and at Brown and at Yale and at Cornell and the rest of them.

00:35:15.720 Now, the picture on the right, the adage, a picture is worth a thousand stories, exists because it exactly is that.

00:35:25.720 Here is what you see in that picture. You see Farah Oda who, you know, was a young kid who's throwing a rock on the Zionist Nazi genocidal Jewish tank.

00:35:39.720 And that picture shows a great disparity in power, right?

00:35:43.720 There is the really mean tank and there is the young, innocent boy.

00:35:48.720 And that then becomes the narrative that drives that dialogue, okay?

00:35:54.720 And, of course, the reality is very, very different from that.

00:35:59.720 But this is what typically people are responding to on university campuses.

00:36:05.720 One of the tools that I use when I engage people on social media, think of it as a form of Socratic method.

00:36:14.720 But in short tweets, I put up these polls to actually get a snapshot picture of what people are truly thinking.

00:36:23.720 So, here's one that I posted about three weeks after the October 7th incident. 0.90

00:36:30.720 Israel is bombing Gaza today because, one, Jews are inherently genocidal. 0.99

00:36:38.720 Two, Hamas slaughtered and raped. 0.99

00:36:42.720 Well, the number then was 1,400.

00:36:44.720 I think they've downgraded it to 1,200.

00:36:46.720 Israel is on October 7th.

00:36:49.720 Well, 163,119 people voted. 0.98

00:36:54.720 And 54% came to the conclusion that it's because Jews are inherently genocidal. 0.95

00:37:01.720 And that's what I call the amnesia of causality.

00:37:05.720 There really is nothing that happened on October 7th.

00:37:08.720 That particular clock started on October 8th.

00:37:11.720 And based on the October 8th reality where the timeline begins, then Jews are committing a really ugly genocide. 0.95

00:37:20.720 Here are a few more.

00:37:24.720 You are most likely to receive threats if you criticize Judaism, Christianity, Islam, or Buddhism.

00:37:33.720 Well, okay, 57% said Islam, but 37.4% said Judaism.

00:37:40.720 Here's what I propose to do for all 37.4% of people who think it's Judaism.

00:37:48.720 We can test this very easily, right?

00:37:50.720 I can get you to write a very, very punchy tweet criticizing Islam, Muhammad. 1.00

00:37:59.720 I can get you to do the same for Judaism.

00:38:03.720 And if you could be so kind as to share your personal address, we can test to see what will happen.

00:38:11.720 Whether the Talmudic extremists will come after you,

00:38:15.720 or whether it will be noble, peaceful people of perpetual tolerance who will come after you.

00:38:20.720 The most likely converts to commit an act of terror are those who convert to Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam. 0.90

00:38:33.720 Again, Judaism gets a solid 11%. 0.94

00:38:38.720 I'd love for you to, if you have some good cases, please email me to my university address of Jewish folks who converted to Judaism,

00:38:51.720 and then went on to commit acts of terror, and I'd be happy to reciprocate with the other direction.

00:38:57.720 And then we can bet if you'd like $5,000.

00:39:00.720 We can give it to our favorite charity.

00:39:02.720 But that's the reality that you face every day.

00:39:05.720 It's a form of existential gaslighting that's unimaginable.

00:39:09.720 Up is down, left is right, man is woman, peace is war, slavery is freedom, post-modernism.

00:39:18.720 That's why it's the granddaddy of all idea pathogens.

00:39:21.720 I won't go through all this because it's maybe...

00:39:27.720 These are just some of the stuff that I've been told on social media.

00:39:32.720 Or maybe it's instructive to go through it.

00:39:34.720 Fine, let's go through it.

00:39:36.720 Alright, number one, October 7th never happened.

00:39:40.720 It's not true. 0.99

00:39:41.720 Zionist bullshit. 1.00

00:39:43.720 October 7th did happen, but it was very, very much exaggerated in terms of the victims. 0.99

00:39:48.720 I think there were only six people who were killed.

00:39:50.720 October 7th did happen, but it was perfectly justified because occupation. 0.64

00:39:55.720 IDF soldiers raped Palestinians, but Hamas doesn't rape anyone. 0.98

00:40:00.720 Islam doesn't allow for rape. 0.97

00:40:03.720 October 7th happened, but it was orchestrated by Israel in order to have the clearance to commit the genocide. 0.97

00:40:10.720 We have clear footage showing that all of the killings were done by the IDF.

00:40:15.720 Since 1948, Israel has been committing a daily genocide on Palestinians.

00:40:19.720 Prior to 1948, Jews and noble Palestinians lived in perfect harmony. 0.65

00:40:24.720 Islam loves the Jews. 1.00

00:40:25.720 The only problem is Zionism. 0.99

00:40:27.720 Zionism is infinitely worse than Islam, and it goes on and on and on. 1.00

00:40:32.720 And I mean, these are falsehoods that are at a level that is unimaginable. 0.97

00:40:40.720 Zionism has killed more people than Islam throughout history?

00:40:44.720 How? 0.59

00:40:45.720 Different estimates place the number of killed, these are conservative estimates, by Islam at 300 million in the last 1400 years.

00:40:54.720 So, Zionism has killed more than 300 million in the last 100 years?

00:41:01.720 How?

00:41:02.720 The truth doesn't matter.

00:41:04.720 I'll skip this.

00:41:09.720 This is some cool quotes from Golda Meir.

00:41:12.720 So, now I'm going to link what we're talking about today on Jew hatred with my work on parasitic thinking. 0.90

00:41:19.720 It's a real shame that some of you weren't able to make it yesterday because I really got into how I developed the framework of ideological neural parasites.

00:41:30.720 But, I will briefly explain what the framework is.

00:41:35.720 On the left, you have a wood cricket.

00:41:39.720 This is a hair worm that parasitizes the brain of a wood cricket.

00:41:46.720 These are called neural parasites, right?

00:41:48.720 Parasites, the field of parasitology, can apply to many places in your body, right?

00:41:52.720 You could have a tapeworm in your intestinal tract.

00:41:56.720 Neural parasites are those parasites that ultimately seek to, excuse me, to end up in the brain of its host, altering its neuronal circuitry to suit its reproductive interests, right?

00:42:11.720 And so, what the hair worm needs for it to happen, this guy hates water.

00:42:18.720 Instinctively, it doesn't like water.

00:42:21.720 But, the hair worm needs it to happily jump into water, commit suicide, because then the hair worm could complete its reproductive cycle.

00:42:32.720 And so, when it is parasitized, that's exactly what it does.

00:42:35.720 To its detriment, but to the benefit of the neural parasite. 0.98

00:42:40.720 So, now let me show you human parasites, how they look like. 0.99

00:42:44.720 Queers for Palestine are the hapless wood cricket that's been parasitized. 1.00

00:42:53.720 If you present yourself to the world via your queer identity, that's great, more power to you. 1.00

00:43:00.720 It's probably not a good idea to be supporting Gazan societies, because the Gazan actually have a 100% effective conversion therapy program. 0.96

00:43:13.720 It's a gravity-based conversion program.

00:43:17.720 Tel Aviv, on the other hand, happens to be one of the most queer-friendly cities in the world.

00:43:23.720 There is Montreal, there is New York, there is San Francisco.

00:43:28.720 So, if I present myself to the world with my queer identity as the first thing forward, then I probably would not want to be saying queers for Palestine.

00:43:39.720 Just like, let me skip to the next slide and I'll come back.

00:43:45.720 We've got chickens for Kentucky Fried Chicken. 0.95

00:43:50.720 And since I'm French-speaking, this is mine, this is not mine, geese for foie gras.

00:43:58.720 Okay?

00:43:59.720 But let me go back here.

00:44:01.720 We have here the super progressive, super smarmy and smart,

00:44:08.720 Anna Epstein, Jewish Anna Epstein,

00:44:12.720 who walked around on her university, I think it was Boston University.

00:44:16.720 It could have been Boston College or Boston University.

00:44:17.720 I think it's Boston University.

00:44:19.720 And she was caught on tape tearing down all the posters of the Jewish babies who had been.

00:44:30.720 So, they certainly could not be guilty of any occupation crimes.

00:44:35.720 They're babies.

00:44:36.720 She was taken down in anger, because she's progressive.

00:44:39.720 She's more enlightened than all you Cretans. 0.98

00:44:41.720 Well, what would have happened to Anna Epstein had she been vacationing in that nice music festival?

00:44:48.720 She doesn't think that far.

00:44:50.720 She's just more progressive than you.

00:44:52.720 But take it from someone who comes from that region, it wouldn't have gone too well for her. 0.60

00:44:56.720 That's what a parasitized mind looks like.

00:44:59.720 And I'll give you a few more examples.

00:45:02.720 This really defies logic, but I'm going to read it for you.

00:45:07.720 This comes from my book, The Parasitic Mind.

00:45:10.720 Let me read it.

00:45:12.720 Several years ago, Tal Nitsan, then a doctoral student at Hebrew University,

00:45:18.720 authored an award-winning paper that examined the incidence of rape as perpetrated by the IDF on Palestinian women.

00:45:27.720 Undoubtedly, the goal was to uncover, by the way, Tal Nitsan is Jewish Tal Nitsan. 0.98

00:45:33.720 Undoubtedly, the goal was to uncover an epidemic of rape to demonstrate how diabolical those evil Jews truly were. 1.00

00:45:41.720 When no such empirical reality was found, not a single documented case was found. 0.94

00:45:47.720 It was concluded, you might need to sit down for this, but luckily you're all sitting down.

00:45:53.720 It was concluded that this was proof of the extent to which the Israelis dehumanized the Palestinians. 0.96

00:46:02.720 They were so hateful that they did not even consider the Palestinians' women worthy of rapes. 0.64

00:46:10.720 If rapes are uncovered or if none are discovered, the same conclusion is reached. 1.00

00:46:17.720 The Israelis are diabolical. 1.00

00:46:19.720 All roads lead to self-flagellation and self-loathing. 0.99

00:46:23.720 It's the hallmark of a true progressive.

00:46:26.720 Right? 1.00

00:46:27.720 So if you rape women, you're diabolical. 1.00

00:46:31.720 If you don't rape women, you're othering them. 1.00

00:46:34.720 You're just as diabolical. 0.99

00:46:36.720 So there is no Popperian falsification here. 0.99

00:46:40.720 All roads lead to you're diabolical.

00:46:43.720 That's coming from a member of the so-called tribe.

00:46:47.720 You can't win if that's happening. 0.99

00:46:50.720 Here's another one also from the parasitic mind.

00:46:55.720 And incredibly, the woman that is mentioned here, I usually, not usually, I don't identify who they are.

00:47:04.720 I was giving a similar talk to this one in Montreal.

00:47:09.720 And about a day or two later, this woman wrote to me out of the blue.

00:47:14.720 And so I thought, oh, maybe she was at my talk and I didn't know it.

00:47:18.720 But let me, it turned out that it wasn't the case.

00:47:20.720 It was just a serendipitous thing.

00:47:22.720 So in 2010, a Canadian Jewish friend contacted me by email to help her better understand Islam.

00:47:29.720 And specifically, whether it contained doctrines of hate.

00:47:33.720 At the time, she had a friend who was an apparently lovely Muslim woman who was pursuing a PhD at a leading Canadian university.

00:47:40.720 As commonly occurs with folks infected with OPS. 0.84

00:47:43.720 OPS is a malady that I coined in the parasitic mind. 0.76

00:47:46.720 It's called ostrich parasitic syndrome.

00:47:49.720 My friend was having a difficult time reconciling her personal interaction with a liberal and peaceful Muslim

00:47:56.720 with the growing evidence of never-ending global mayhem inflicted in the name of Islam. 0.99

00:48:01.720 Among much else, I sent her a montage of clips demonstrating the profound Jew hatred found in Islamic societies 1.00

00:48:09.720 with children, politicians, imams, clerics, and television personalities spewing nearly unimaginable genocidal hate.

00:48:17.720 Alas, she, along with her friend, responded with a tsunami of cliches. 0.75

00:48:22.720 All religions have violent extremists. 1.00

00:48:25.720 The Bible contains violent messages.

00:48:27.720 Most Muslims are nice people. 0.60

00:48:29.720 That announced to a nonsense, that amounted to a nonsensical apologia.

00:48:34.720 And she ended one of our tense email exchanges with,

00:48:38.720 You're starting to sound fanatical yourself, Gad.

00:48:42.720 Regrettably, she is hardly the only progressive Jew to engage in such disordered thinking when it comes to Islam. 0.99

00:48:49.720 She wrote to me about two, three days after I had given this talk.

00:48:53.720 And again, I don't think she had been at my talk, and I'm not sure if she had read my book.

00:48:57.720 She goes, you know, I remember once we had a difficult conversation about this.

00:49:02.720 I wish I would have listened to you then.

00:49:05.720 Right?

00:49:06.720 But it just feels mean-spirited to criticize a religion.

00:49:10.720 It feels gauche.

00:49:12.720 Tolerant, progressive, liberal people should not do that.

00:49:16.720 And then you end up with that conundrum.

00:49:19.720 Yes, most people of a faith are inherently lovely, of course.

00:49:23.720 There are nice Jews and mean Jews.

00:49:25.720 Nice Christians, mean Christians. 0.63

00:49:26.720 Nice Muslims, mean Muslims.

00:49:28.720 But if I'm saying, does Islam contain tenets that are antithetical to free enlightened societies?

00:49:36.720 You couldn't come up with an ideology that would be more antithetical.

00:49:41.720 You just have to go read it yourself.

00:49:44.720 This is me.

00:49:50.720 During COVID, I was speaking at the Jewish public library, the Jewish public library.

00:49:57.720 And some very, very progressive Jews tried to cancel me because they didn't want an extremist Nazi like me speaking there.

00:50:07.720 These are Jews that I'm speaking on their behalf.

00:50:11.720 All of whom, whether it be one week later, one month later, one year later, will all write to me and say,

00:50:18.720 Ooh, my son just got threatened.

00:50:21.720 Now I get it. 0.90

00:50:26.720 Here's some more parasitic thinking. 0.65

00:50:28.720 Forget about the other.

00:50:29.720 Just look at this very progressive guy.

00:50:33.720 He's a Norwegian man.

00:50:35.720 By the way, all of these, they're all referenced.

00:50:39.720 You can go check them, right?

00:50:41.720 It's not difficult to know if I'm being veridical in my examples. 0.86

00:50:48.720 He was sodomized by a Somali immigrant in Norway. 0.99

00:50:53.720 The Norwegian judiciary gave him a very light sentence, the Somali rapist. 0.96

00:51:01.720 And then they were deporting him.

00:51:04.720 Do you know what their reaction of...

00:51:07.720 This is his description.

00:51:08.720 He's a strong feminist and anti-racist.

00:51:12.720 He had huge existential conundrum.

00:51:17.720 He felt profoundly guilty that his sodomizer was now going to be deported to Somalia,

00:51:25.720 where he wouldn't be able to live out his full potential.

00:51:30.720 You don't have to be a fancy evolutionary psychologist to know that that's not an evolutionary-based emotion.

00:51:38.720 Most people, when they are sodomized, are probably unable to muster that level of empathy to their sodomizer.

00:51:47.720 But when you're super progressive, trained at Wellesley and Oberlin, you can.

00:51:52.720 This one got me in trouble with my university because I shared a...

00:52:05.720 I mean, literally, the Nobel Foundation released this thing, right?

00:52:13.720 And so, in the context of a conversation that I was having, I shared the fact that Jews constitute 0.2% of humanity, 0.99

00:52:21.720 but they have roughly 25% of the Nobel Prizes.

00:52:26.720 Muslims constitute roughly 25% of humanity, and they have many fewer Nobel Prizes.

00:52:32.720 That's not a statement of supremacy.

00:52:34.720 One way we could look at it as, hey, are there certain cultural values that cause it...

00:52:40.720 So, we don't have to talk genetics or anything.

00:52:42.720 Is there anything inherent in Jewish upbringing that might cause them to excel in academia?

00:52:50.720 And certainly, my supervisor, who knows a bit about my family, knows about some of the expectations that come in my family.

00:52:59.720 And let me share one of them with you.

00:53:02.720 I did an undergrad... I'm saying this not to talk about my CV, but it's relevant to the story.

00:53:08.720 I did an undergrad in mathematics and computer science, so about as technical as you can get.

00:53:14.720 And then I did an MBA with a mini thesis in operations research, which is an applied mathematics field.

00:53:20.720 And then I came to Cornell.

00:53:22.720 But before I came to Cornell, one of my brothers, who has lived in Southern California,

00:53:28.720 who is a software guy, was trying to convince me to put on the proverbial suit after my MBA,

00:53:36.720 and maybe take a break, work with him for a few years, before eventually I might go back to do my PhD.

00:53:42.720 I wasn't really interested. I always wanted to go in academia.

00:53:46.720 But when my mother caught wind that my brother was trying to sing in my ear about possibly stopping my education,

00:53:57.720 when I returned from Southern California, she took me to a side room and said,

00:54:02.720 I want to talk to you. It was very sort of ominous.

00:54:05.720 I said, well, what's up, mom?

00:54:07.720 She said, well, I'm hearing that you're thinking about, you know, leaving after your MBA.

00:54:11.720 Do you want people to view you as somebody who dropped out of school?

00:54:16.720 Okay?

00:54:19.720 That's what explains this.

00:54:22.720 Having an undergrad in mathematics and computer science and an MBA and stopping there would have brought great shame to the family. 1.00

00:54:31.720 You're an illiterate moron. 1.00

00:54:34.720 Now, of course, I didn't go to pursue my MS and PhD at Cornell 1.00

00:54:38.720 because I was trying to assuage my mother's fragile ego.

00:54:42.720 But that's the expectation that people have of you.

00:54:46.720 We're less worried about committing daily genocide on others

00:54:50.720 and much more concerned about contributing in a positive way to the world,

00:54:55.720 whether it be in medicine or art or music or philosophy or academia, and it goes on and on.

00:55:01.720 One of the only places we don't do too well is in soccer.

00:55:04.720 I was hoping to solve that problem, but then I had a career-ending injury.

00:55:08.720 So, again, I put this up because cultural values matter

00:55:13.720 and the obsessive desire for learning within the Jewish tradition,

00:55:21.720 whether it be learning in...

00:55:23.720 I have here the wife of my rabbi from Cornell, Hannah Silberstein,

00:55:28.720 who did her PhD here at the same time as me.

00:55:32.720 We took a course with Professor Russo together.

00:55:35.720 It's just ingrained in you.

00:55:37.720 You have to study always and more.

00:55:40.720 When I gave this talk in Montreal, it was in front of largely a Jewish audience.

00:55:48.720 I mean, every single person that came up to me was neurosurgeon this,

00:55:54.720 PhD classics that, PhD MD this.

00:55:57.720 It's just one after another, after another, after another.

00:56:00.720 That's why you get those figures.

00:56:04.720 Spend less time calling for the genocidal killing of Jews,

00:56:09.720 and maybe you too can have a few more Nobel Prizes.

00:56:13.720 This one might make some of you feel squirming in your seats, but it shouldn't.

00:56:19.720 In Britain, over the past 25, 30 years,

00:56:23.720 the reason I'm putting this up is not to marginalize a group of people,

00:56:27.720 but it's to give you a sense of what happens when political correctness

00:56:32.720 becomes a parasitic sting of the spider wasp that zombifies you.

00:56:38.720 So in England, throughout England, up and down England,

00:56:43.720 small cities and big cities, you can do the Google search later

00:56:48.720 where you can read the government reports.

00:56:50.720 It's not me making stuff up.

00:56:52.720 The reason why I say this is because you will usually get some folks

00:56:56.720 on social media say, oh, you're just making this stuff.

00:56:59.720 As if this thing called Google doesn't exist.

00:57:01.720 As if they can't verify everything, right?

00:57:05.720 So there's been what's called grooming rape gangs in Britain

00:57:09.720 at a level that's industrial scale.

00:57:13.720 Thousands and thousands of young, poor British girls, white girls, 0.97

00:57:20.720 have been groomed and gang raped and tricked and turned into prostitution 0.99

00:57:26.720 by 99% Asian men because that's the palatable euphemism 0.97

00:57:35.720 for not saying what they may have in common.

00:57:39.720 And so I've, this is just one.

00:57:42.720 This is from, this is from, I can't remember if it's, oh, it's the BBC.

00:57:47.720 This is the mugshot with the names of the folks.

00:57:51.720 I'm putting this up because I'm going to get to a parasitic thing at the end,

00:57:54.720 which is maybe going to take your breath away.

00:57:57.720 So here are some of the names of the people.

00:58:00.720 You ready? I'm just going to read a few.

00:58:02.720 Irfan Ahmad, Zahid Hassan, Muhammad Kamir, Muhammad Rizwan Aslam,

00:58:10.720 Nahman Muhammad, Wikas Mahmood, Muhammad Irfraz and it goes on.

00:58:17.720 So I put this up and I said, I must have missed the data,

00:58:22.720 the big data analytic class where we try to identify any commonalities.

00:58:27.720 So I don't have the big computational skills to be able to come to a conclusion.

00:58:34.720 Could someone tell me what's common?

00:58:37.720 Do you know what many, many hundreds of people wrote to me?

00:58:41.720 Is the culprit behind this?

00:58:43.720 Can you say who you think it is?

00:58:45.720 It's not what you, what should be there.

00:58:48.720 Sorry?

00:58:50.720 The Jews. 0.64

00:58:52.720 Yes.

00:58:53.720 Why? 1.00

00:58:54.720 Let's see if you've got your parasitic mind fully infected. 0.98

00:58:59.720 They're not joking, they're not trolling, they're not being facetious. 0.97

00:59:04.720 I put this up, think about doing a decision making course,

00:59:08.720 a critical thinking course, a data analysis course.

00:59:12.720 And I say, okay, so it's the Jews, why? 1.00

00:59:16.720 So this is, by the way, before I see if anybody can answer it,

00:59:21.720 this is what I call six degrees of Jew. 0.84

00:59:24.720 That's the game that I, six degrees of Jew works as follows. 0.95

00:59:29.720 I give you a calamity and you have up to six degrees of faux causality 0.99

00:59:36.720 to blame the evil Jews. 0.98

00:59:39.720 So for example, I could say, an Amazonian frog just died. 1.00

00:59:44.720 Go.

00:59:45.720 So you've got six steps. 0.97

00:59:47.720 For most things, it only takes, if you're very entrenched in your neuro parasite, 0.89

00:59:55.720 it only takes about two or three steps.

00:59:57.720 Sometimes it can take a bit more, but certainly by six, you've got your culprit. 0.99

01:00:02.720 How is it when three Mohammeds gang rape your daughter? 1.00

01:00:07.720 It's Mordekar that's to blame. 0.99

01:00:09.720 Three M's are replaced by one M. 0.99

01:00:12.720 Three Mohammeds by one Mordekar. 0.95

01:00:14.720 Anybody want to take a shot at that?

01:00:16.720 Anybody have any idea? 0.95

01:00:18.720 It's because it's Jews who are the puppeteer of the open border policies. 1.00

01:00:29.720 Therefore, sure, it might be Mohammed who technically raped your daughter. 1.00

01:00:37.720 How did Mohammed get there? 1.00

01:00:39.720 So Jew, stop whining with these things. 1.00

01:00:42.720 You're the architect of why that happened. 0.99

01:00:45.720 So when the outcome of that data solidifies how diabolical the Jew is, 1.00

01:00:54.720 Houston, we have a problem. 0.98

01:00:57.720 And again, this is a very, very common find.

01:01:00.720 You might say, oh, but these are just trolls on the internet.

01:01:02.720 No, no, they're not.

01:01:03.720 Some of them even have the audacity to identify who they are,

01:01:08.720 because they're fully emboldened.

01:01:09.720 I mean, yes.

01:01:11.720 George Soros is a Hungarian Jew. 0.92

01:01:14.720 He is an acolyte of Karl Popper, who proposed the open society.

01:01:22.720 Therefore, all the open immigration that you're seeing is, to the extent that it's a bad thing, 1.00

01:01:28.720 is ultimately to be blamed on the Jews.

01:01:31.720 You see this discourse in academia.

01:01:34.720 You see it online.

01:01:35.720 You see it everywhere.

01:01:37.720 I'm not going to mention what this is, because I've already said it.

01:01:43.720 Ostrich Parasitic Syndrome.

01:01:44.720 By the way, the ostrich actually doesn't do this.

01:01:47.720 But it's become an apt metaphor for someone who wishes to deny reality.

01:01:52.720 It's actually worth reading it.

01:01:53.720 So this is the definition that I gave it in the parasitic mind.

01:01:58.720 This disorder causes a person to reject realities that are otherwise as clear as the existence of gravity.

01:02:04.720 Sufferers of OPS do not believe their lying eyes.

01:02:07.720 They construct an alternative reality known as unicornia.

01:02:11.720 In such a world, science, reason, rules of causality, evidentiary thresholds, a near infinite amount of data,

01:02:19.720 data analytic procedures, inferential statistics, the epistemological rules inherent to the scientific method,

01:02:24.720 rules of logic, historical patterns, daily patterns, and common sense are all rejected.

01:02:30.720 Instead, the delusional ramblings of an OPS sufferer are rooted in illusory correlations,

01:02:35.720 non-existent causal links, and feel-good progressive platitudes.

01:02:39.720 Ostrich logic is always delivered via an air of haughty moral superiority.

01:02:44.720 And I'll give you in the next page what it looks like exactly.

01:02:49.720 Right here, we have from a very reliable website.

01:02:56.720 But there are other databases if you don't like this website.

01:02:59.720 Because usually when someone doesn't like a reference I give them,

01:03:02.720 it's because that website is infiltrated by Zionists. 0.73

01:03:05.720 So you can pick other ones that may not be under Zionist infiltration.

01:03:10.720 But this one comes from a very reliable website that has tracked the number of terror attacks since 9-11 alone in nearly 70 countries.

01:03:22.720 These 70 countries could not be more different from each other in every possible way, racially, economically, ethnically, in every possible way, religiously.

01:03:35.720 Right now, the counter was, when I did the clip, was at 44,609.

01:03:41.720 Since 9-11 alone.

01:03:43.720 44,000.

01:03:45.720 Okay?

01:03:46.720 When the terrorists commit those acts, they usually tell you the exact reason why they're doing it.

01:03:57.720 They will quote the exact verse that justifies why they're doing it.

01:04:03.720 You know what our super smart progressive professors and bien pensants, the good thinkers, the politically correct thinkers.

01:04:11.720 You know what they tell us, those 44,000?

01:04:14.720 Don't listen to what the terrorists quotes.

01:04:16.720 I know better.

01:04:18.720 Because I've studied anthropology.

01:04:20.720 It's due to lone wolfism.

01:04:25.720 What does that mean?

01:04:27.720 It's due to man-made disasters.

01:04:29.720 It's due to violent video games.

01:04:31.720 I better stop my son from playing those first shooter games.

01:04:34.720 He might join ISIS in Raqqa, Syria.

01:04:38.720 It's because lack of adequate exposure to art.

01:04:41.720 These are not satirical.

01:04:43.720 I give you the reference to each one if you want.

01:04:45.720 And they're from super smart Western people.

01:04:48.720 So which amongst us didn't, if in his childhood was not exposed to Chagall and Picasso, 0.86

01:04:57.720 didn't go and join ISIS to throw the gays off rooftops in Raqqa? 0.89

01:05:04.720 Is it possible that someone could be that insane as to argue that lack of adequate exposure to art

01:05:11.720 is what caused some Brussels terrorist to do what they did when they told you why they did what they did?

01:05:17.720 It's due to studying engineering.

01:05:20.720 Well, there must be a lot of future terrorists at Cornell.

01:05:23.720 You've got a pretty vibrant engineering school.

01:05:26.720 I would hate to think what's happening at MIT or Caltech.

01:05:29.720 It's due to beard bullying.

01:05:32.720 So the San Bernardino terrorist said that he was being picked on at work.

01:05:39.720 That's why I keep my beard trimmed.

01:05:42.720 Because I worry that if I grow it a bit more and someone's beard bullies me, I might commit a terrorist act.

01:05:48.720 It's due to climate change.

01:05:50.720 Right?

01:05:51.720 Bill Nye, the science guy, explained to us. 0.87

01:05:54.720 All those references are in the parasitic mind.

01:05:57.720 Explained on the Huffington Post that it is very quite conceivable and he offered a causal chain of evidence

01:06:06.720 of how the Syrian civil war and the Bataclan Paris terror attacks was due to CO2 and solar panels and so on. 0.92

01:06:16.720 That's what a parasitic mind looks like. 0.68

01:06:18.720 And it goes on and on and on.

01:06:23.720 Here, I'm not going to spend much time on this, but in a sense, it serves for the people who weren't here yesterday.

01:06:33.720 It's important for me to reintroduce this concept.

01:06:37.720 So in the parasitic mind in chapter seven, I talk about how to seek truth.

01:06:42.720 And I argue that you build unassailable arguments by building nomological networks of cumulative evidence.

01:06:52.720 Which means what?

01:06:53.720 It means that I try to find you as many data stemming from as many distinct line of evidence

01:07:01.720 that hopefully proves that my position is veridical.

01:07:04.720 And so yesterday, forgive me for those who were at yesterday's talk.

01:07:08.720 So if I'm trying to prove to you, if what I'm trying to prove to you here is that toy preferences have a sex specificity

01:07:18.720 because of biological reason and not due to social construction, how would I go about building such a nomological network?

01:07:25.720 Well, I could get you data from developmental psychology that shows you that children who are too young to be socialized,

01:07:30.720 already exhibit those sex specific toy preferences.

01:07:33.720 I can get you data from other species, vervet monkeys, rhesus monkeys, and chimpanzees,

01:07:39.720 showing you that their toy preferences and their species is exactly that of humans.

01:07:43.720 I can get you data from ancient Greece that shows you that the way that children are depicted playing on funerary monuments

01:07:51.720 are exactly those that we see today.

01:07:53.720 I can get you data from non-western samples that couldn't have been westernized, where they exhibit the exact same sex specificity.

01:08:02.720 I can get you data from pediatric endocrinology, showing you that little girls who suffer from congenital adrenal hyperplasia,

01:08:10.720 it's an endocrinological disorder that masculinizes behavior.

01:08:14.720 Little girls who suffer from this endocrinological disorder have a reversal of their sex specific toy preferences.

01:08:20.720 They exhibit boy toy preferences.

01:08:23.720 So I can get you data across time periods, across cultures, across species, across methodologies, across theoretical frameworks, across dependent measures,

01:08:34.720 all of which triangulate in a truly tsunami, in an orgiastic tsunami of evidence that it is vertical.

01:08:42.720 It's much more than a literature review.

01:08:45.720 A literature review is much more narrow.

01:08:47.720 I'm studying the link between alcohol consumption and asthma.

01:08:50.720 Well, I might do a literature review on the link between those two.

01:08:53.720 This is a much broader way to build arguments.

01:08:57.720 Well, we can use that approach to, for example, say, well, does a religion promote peace and tolerance and is it consistent with enlightened values?

01:09:10.720 We don't have to emote louder than someone else.

01:09:13.720 We don't have to be hysterical.

01:09:15.720 I can build you the nomological network using many, many different lines of evidence and then you can come to your own conclusion.

01:09:22.720 And if you build that nomological network for the question we're asking there, the answer should be pretty obvious to you.

01:09:29.720 I'm almost done, so bear with me.

01:09:32.720 Usually, I'm referred to as the happy warrior because I'm more often than not smiling and joking and, you know, being self-deprecating.

01:09:42.720 And one of the reasons, well, the main reason I wrote the happiness book that I did is because many people would write to me and say,

01:09:48.720 hey, what's your secret? Why are you always smiling and happy and jovial?

01:09:52.720 And so I thought, okay, well, maybe I'll take a crack at writing a book on this.

01:09:55.720 Well, I put out a tweet a few months ago that received, I can't remember, at last count, that's probably over 15 million views.

01:10:03.720 So the happy warrior is feeling pessimistic.

01:10:06.720 So let me read it for you.

01:10:07.720 You are not going to like this tweet, so turn away if you are likely to be triggered.

01:10:11.720 I'm a very optimistic person. I'm a fighter for Western values and liberties.

01:10:16.720 I'm a dogged defender of science, reason and common sense.

01:10:19.720 I must say, though, that I'm unsure that the West can recover from its multi-front civilizational suicide.

01:10:25.720 Yes, I've talked about these issues for decades and wrote a book about it,

01:10:29.720 but the past few weeks have crystallized the extent to which the problem has become intractable.

01:10:34.720 It will be a long and ultimately bloody demise, and the West will be the first society in recorded history 0.98

01:10:40.720 to fully self-implode due to its parasitic ideological rapture.

01:10:45.720 It is a gargantuan Greek tragedy that will shape the future of humanity.

01:10:50.720 This is not hyperbole. Your grandchildren will pay a very high price for your progressive arrogance

01:10:55.720 rooted in the pursuit of unicornia that only exists in the recesses of deeply flawed parasitized minds. 0.59

01:11:02.720 But let me offer some hopefully optimistic and prescriptive final...

01:11:08.720 I think I only have two more slides.

01:11:10.720 So a call to action, right?

01:11:12.720 If you go see your physician and he or she says you've got this disease,

01:11:15.720 you hopefully don't want it to end there.

01:11:17.720 Well, what are some things that we can do to correct the problem?

01:11:20.720 Well, number one, I say activate your inner honey badger,

01:11:25.720 which is something that I talked about in the last chapter of the parasitic mind.

01:11:28.720 The honey badger has been ranked by zoologists as the fiercest animal in the world.

01:11:36.720 It is the size of a small dog, yet it is insanely ferocious.

01:11:41.720 Nobody messes with the honey badger.

01:11:43.720 And here I've got a photo of the honey badger facing down a multitude of adult lions.

01:11:49.720 The lions retreat when they come across the honey badger.

01:11:54.720 Now, what do I mean when I say activate your inner honey badger?

01:11:57.720 Am I saying that you should be violent?

01:11:59.720 Of course not.

01:12:00.720 What I'm saying is if there are a set of principles that you strongly believe in,

01:12:05.720 that you can articulate why they are correct,

01:12:08.720 then maybe don't walk away from offering your insights, right?

01:12:13.720 The natural tendency for most people, regrettably, is to say,

01:12:17.720 I don't want to put my head on the chopping blocks.

01:12:20.720 I don't want to be the next in the guillotine line.

01:12:23.720 And so everybody is quiet.

01:12:24.720 Oh, I'm sure Gad Saad has a big enough mouth.

01:12:27.720 He'll take care of it for us.

01:12:28.720 But no.

01:12:29.720 Most people, the silent majority, hate this stuff

01:12:32.720 and agree with pretty much most of the stuff that I said.

01:12:37.720 But they don't want to be the ones.

01:12:39.720 I may not be invited to the cool kids party, right?

01:12:43.720 I'm not tenured yet.

01:12:44.720 I'm worried.

01:12:45.720 Maybe I'll talk after tenure.

01:12:47.720 Well, I'm tenured, but I'm going up for a full professor.

01:12:50.720 Well, I'm full professor, but I'm going for chaired professor.

01:12:53.720 Well, I'm chaired professor, but I may not get the research grant.

01:12:56.720 Oh, now it's too late for me to talk.

01:12:58.720 I'm retired.

01:12:59.720 So there's always a reason for you not to talk.

01:13:03.720 I'm not made that way.

01:13:05.720 I mean, I was trained beautifully by my advisor here

01:13:09.720 and Tom Guilherme, within the behavioral decision theory framework.

01:13:13.720 And, you know, I did some good stuff there.

01:13:16.720 But I decided that where I think I could make the biggest impact

01:13:19.720 in my academic research was in evolutionary psychology.

01:13:23.720 When most people said, what's this evolutionary psychology?

01:13:26.720 Who wants to argue that consumers and economic decision makers

01:13:31.720 are driven by Darwinian forces?

01:13:33.720 That's insane.

01:13:34.720 That's Nazi talk. 1.00

01:13:35.720 And I said, I don't give a shit. 1.00

01:13:37.720 That's what I'm going to do. 0.99

01:13:38.720 I'm going to be authentic to what I think is the truth.

01:13:41.720 So even in my academic work, not just in my public engagement,

01:13:44.720 I decided that I'm just going to go where I think the wind takes me,

01:13:48.720 where truth takes me.

01:13:49.720 So if we can all find a way to find our spine

01:13:53.720 and activate our inner honey badger,

01:13:55.720 we would certainly be in a better place.

01:13:57.720 We would advance the discourse.

01:13:59.720 Number two, this is for those of you

01:14:03.720 who are ever facing political choices that you have to make.

01:14:06.720 This, the don't get drunk by smelling the cork of the wine bottle

01:14:10.720 is a translation from Arabic.

01:14:12.720 Let me explain what it means.

01:14:15.720 Arabic is a very beautiful and poetic language

01:14:18.720 that's very flowery.

01:14:19.720 So there are all kinds of sayings in Arabic

01:14:21.720 that I try to bring into my English discourse.

01:14:24.720 So if this were the cork of the wine bottle

01:14:27.720 and I just smell it and I start getting drunk,

01:14:30.720 that means I'm of weak constituency, right?

01:14:33.720 I didn't need to go through the hard work of drinking the wine

01:14:36.720 and I'm already drunk.

01:14:37.720 Well, apply that now to cognitive weakness, right?

01:14:41.720 This guy, and I'll share what I think of him, 0.92

01:14:45.720 this orgiastic buffoon, this walking instantiation 0.94

01:14:51.720 of every parasitic idea that I talk about in my book is tall. 0.99

01:14:56.720 He's got beautiful hair.

01:14:58.720 He's dreamy.

01:14:59.720 Look how I'm getting drunk.

01:15:00.720 I'm getting drunk at the cork of Trudeau.

01:15:03.720 On the other hand, look at, I'm going to now smell the cork of Trump. 1.00

01:15:07.720 Trump is ugly. 1.00

01:15:08.720 He's cantankerous. 1.00

01:15:10.720 He's vulgar. 0.90

01:15:11.720 He repulses me.

01:15:12.720 I'm not saying this.

01:15:13.720 I'm saying this as the cool kids at Obermann, okay?

01:15:16.720 What did I just say?

01:15:18.720 I didn't say I don't like Trump because of his monetary policy,

01:15:22.720 his immigration policy.

01:15:24.720 I didn't mention any policies.

01:15:26.720 I didn't say I love Trudeau because of his policies.

01:15:30.720 I either loved Obama or hated Obama or loved Trump or hated Trump

01:15:37.720 because I got drunk.

01:15:38.720 That's literally how almost everyone in the electorate makes decisions.

01:15:45.720 Okay?

01:15:46.720 So don't get drunk by smelling the cork of the wine bottle.

01:15:50.720 As a matter of fact, I've sat down using the Socratic method with some colleagues

01:15:54.720 and I say, okay, you hate such and such politician.

01:15:57.720 Okay, let's analyze it.

01:15:59.720 What's your view on immigration?

01:16:01.720 So then the person says it.

01:16:03.720 I say, ooh, that sounds more like the guy you hate.

01:16:06.720 Ooh, ooh. 0.64

01:16:07.720 What's your position on freedom of speech?

01:16:09.720 Ooh, that, right?

01:16:10.720 But they didn't have to think about all those things. 1.00

01:16:13.720 This guy is repulsive and disgusting. 1.00

01:16:15.720 He's an existential threat. 1.00

01:16:17.720 This guy is tall and lanky.

01:16:20.720 Obama has a mellifluous voice.

01:16:22.720 He's got a radiant smile.

01:16:24.720 He seems progressive.

01:16:25.720 I'm a good person.

01:16:27.720 I don't vote based on skin color.

01:16:29.720 Therefore, I vote Obama.

01:16:30.720 I'm a good person.

01:16:32.720 I may hate every single word that comes out of his platitudinous mouth,

01:16:36.720 but my God is he lanky and has a pretty smile.

01:16:40.720 That's how people think.

01:16:41.720 Now, if we're going to put it in the language of, you know, psychology,

01:16:45.720 you could talk about cosmetic cues versus substantive cues.

01:16:48.720 You could talk about the elaboration likelihood model.

01:16:51.720 We can make it as academic as you want.

01:16:53.720 So, make decisions based on real principles rather than on cosmetic things.

01:16:59.720 And then, of course, as relating to certainly the university campus,

01:17:03.720 I only have one more slide, I think, after this.

01:17:05.720 Make your donation dollars count.

01:17:08.720 Harvard now is, of course, panicking because some of its billionaire Jewish donors are saying,

01:17:14.720 yeah, this is not going to work anymore.

01:17:16.720 You know that $400 million that I earmarked for you guys?

01:17:19.720 F you.

01:17:20.720 Suddenly, the administrators now are listening.

01:17:23.720 They didn't listen when they read Parasitic Mind because, okay, whatever, it's some fancy book.

01:17:28.720 But money talks.

01:17:30.720 If you ever cancel a speaker at your university, there goes my $400 million.

01:17:37.720 Yes, Bill Ochman, sir, I hear you.

01:17:40.720 Right?

01:17:41.720 So, but even if you're only making $500 donation or $1,000,

01:17:45.720 make it contingent on the university adhering to certain deontological principles.

01:17:51.720 And then, last slide, which is another one of those tweets that got a lot of attention.

01:17:59.720 How to save the West.

01:18:02.720 In order for the West to win the civilizational battle, it must proudly and unequivocally defend Western values.

01:18:09.720 It must reject an idea pathogen that I talk about in the Parasitic Mind,

01:18:13.720 which is reject cultural relativism and the unicornia vision of multiculturalism.

01:18:18.720 By the way, that doesn't mean that you don't want to live in an ethnically diverse society.

01:18:24.720 Multiculturalism is actually a political philosophy that is actually cancerous. 1.00

01:18:29.720 Cultural relativism says, who are we to judge if another society cuts off the clitorises of five-year-old girls? 0.99

01:18:35.720 Well, I'll judge it because I have enough of a moral compass to recognize what is deontologically right or not. 0.88

01:18:42.720 Cultural relativism makes me impotent to make that cultural judgment.

01:18:47.720 It says, you have no right to judge the cultural systems of others.

01:18:52.720 Recommit to individual dignity over the celebration of collective identity politics.

01:19:00.720 I present myself to the world, notwithstanding the fact that I obviously talked about my background here,

01:19:04.720 because it's relevant to the talk.

01:19:06.720 I present to the world as Gad Saad, not as part of some minority or oppressed thing, right?

01:19:14.720 There is no indigenous science. There is no Lebanese Jewish science. 1.00

01:19:18.720 There is no reason we should give awards based on what your gender orientation is.

01:19:22.720 So, return to individual dignity and to an ethos of meritocracy.

01:19:27.720 Recognize that all cultures are not equal. 1.00

01:19:30.720 Recognize that all religious beliefs are not equally consistent with Western values.

01:19:35.720 Recognize that all immigrants are not equally likely to assimilate and adopt Western values. 1.00

01:19:40.720 Nothing could be clearer.

01:19:42.720 Recognize that immigrants who espouse intolerable values that seek to destroy our civilizations will be deported en masse. 1.00

01:19:49.720 Implement a rational immigration policy that recognizes the importance of cultural homophily, 0.84

01:19:55.720 which is a fancy way of saying choosing immigrants who hail from cultures that possess similar values to those of the host nations.

01:20:03.720 Homophily is something that you see in a myriad of ways.

01:20:06.720 So, for example, in evolutionary psychology, you have assortative mating.

01:20:09.720 You mate with people, birds of a feather flock together.

01:20:12.720 Your marriage is much more likely to be successful and long-lasting

01:20:16.720 if you marry someone who shares the same foundational values as you do.

01:20:20.720 So, in that case, opposites attract doesn't work.

01:20:23.720 It might work well for short-term mating.

01:20:25.720 It doesn't work well for long-term mating.

01:20:27.720 So, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to get that if you bring in 5 million people into your society

01:20:34.720 that don't share these cultural definitional values, you're going to have problems.

01:20:39.720 Germany is now saying, oh-oh.

01:20:41.720 Sweden is now saying, oh-oh.

01:20:43.720 Netherlands is saying, oh-oh.

01:20:45.720 Denmark is saying, oh-oh.

01:20:47.720 But I told them.

01:20:49.720 I warned them.

01:20:50.720 It doesn't, but it's because they were blinded by their progressive utopia.

01:20:54.720 Exhibit zero tolerance for seditious belief systems.

01:20:59.720 Such systems can be criminalized if they constitute an existential threat to our freedoms and liberties.

01:21:05.720 Hopefully, in the future, I won't have to come back to Cornell to talk about increased Jew hatred.

01:21:10.720 Thank you very much.

01:21:11.720 applause

01:21:27.720 We have time for a few questions.

01:21:32.720 First of all, thank you so much.

01:21:34.720 It's really interesting to be the patient.

01:21:36.720 I'm grateful for .

01:21:40.720 Have you ever given this talk to an audience of a Middle East Studies department?

01:21:46.720 I mean, not specifically Middle East Studies department.

01:21:49.720 I've given, you know, similar talks or made similar points where I know that there are Middle Eastern students

01:21:55.720 or just people there, but not uniquely that.

01:22:00.720 I guess my question is, have you given talk to people who would perhaps protest your talk?

01:22:08.720 Well, maybe I should knock on wood.

01:22:11.720 I actually thought, maybe I should feel insulted and offended that I'm not important enough that I don't get protested.

01:22:16.720 But I thought that coming to Walk Central at Cornell, there was going to be a lot more protest and things have gone very smoothly.

01:22:23.720 So, who knows?

01:22:26.720 Frankly, given how outspoken I am in my positions, although I think they're very rational and reasonable ones, but in today's Zeitgeist, given, you know, people say a lot less than I do.

01:22:44.720 So, by Tuesday morning, I've probably tweeted a hundred things that are more controversial than all the people that you know have been cancelled.

01:22:53.720 And many people have asked me, so what's the secret to why you haven't been cancelled?

01:22:58.720 I think it's multifactorial.

01:23:00.720 There are several reasons.

01:23:01.720 I think because I do have a discipline in that the message that I don't attack, for example, individual Muslims.

01:23:08.720 I attack certain tenets of Islam. 1.00

01:23:11.720 By being disciplined in doing that, it makes it harder for somebody to come after you.

01:23:15.720 The fact that, although I did it a bit today, but the fact that I use humor helps to, you know, soften the blow.

01:23:25.720 So, there are all sorts of both cosmetic and substantive reasons that makes it somewhat more difficult to cancel me.

01:23:32.720 I also am someone who does my homework.

01:23:34.720 I build these nomological networks.

01:23:37.720 As I explained yesterday in the Parasitic Mind lecture, I build these nomological networks before I go into a hostile room.

01:23:44.720 So, if you're going to debate me, you better have your nomological network ready.

01:23:51.720 If you just scream and shout and emote and, you know, go into a fetal position, you're not going to win the debate.

01:23:56.720 So, I'm very disciplined in knowing what I know and knowing what I don't know.

01:24:01.720 I don't thread into territory that I don't feel comfortable defending.

01:24:04.720 Because of all that, I actually get much fewer protests than you would expect.

01:24:09.720 Although, on the negative, I do get an astounding number of threats.

01:24:14.720 So, I've had, as I explained in yesterday's lecture, at several points in my Concordia career, I've had to be accompanied by security when I'm going to teach a class.

01:24:27.720 Now, imagine how sinister that is.

01:24:29.720 In the 21st century, a professor in Canada has to go, I've had to have filed police reports with the, you know, detectives and the whole thing.

01:24:38.720 That's probably the old canary in the coal mine.

01:24:43.720 Now, luckily for me, I'm not easily intimidated.

01:24:48.720 Maybe it's, I should be more afraid.

01:24:51.720 But I'm, maybe because of my personal history, I'm simply not going to hopefully let these societies turn into the societies from which I fled.

01:25:00.720 That's, by the way, one of the reasons why some of the staunchest defenders of the Western tradition are usually immigrants. 1.00

01:25:08.720 Because those immigrants have sampled from the buffet of societies that exist. 0.99

01:25:13.720 And they know that the West is a outlier, is an anomaly in recorded history.

01:25:19.720 So, we've been elsewhere, and then we come here, we go, this is unbelievable.

01:25:24.720 And therefore, we want to defend what's here, given that we escaped from there.

01:25:29.720 We'll go back to, about two years ago, to the hostage situation in Colleyville, Texas, when the synagogue was taken over and the hostage were taken.

01:25:48.720 I recall that the terrorist was able to infiltrate the synagogue by dressing as a homeless man and the advantage of the rabbi's charity.

01:26:06.720 Now, is that charitable behavior parasitic?

01:26:14.720 Right, no. So, I don't know that particular case, it doesn't come to mind, but your general question applies.

01:26:20.720 That's actually the topic of my next book, which is tentatively titled, Suicidal Empathy, right?

01:26:26.720 So, of course, empathy is an emotion that we've evolved, because it serves certain evolutionary functional reasons, right?

01:26:35.720 So, it's fine. The problem with empathy is when it misfires, right?

01:26:39.720 So, just like earlier today at lunch, I was talking to some people, if you look at OCD, for example, OCD is the maladaptive firing of an otherwise adaptive process.

01:26:52.720 Because OCD is about scanning the environment for threats.

01:26:55.720 Let's say I have germ contamination fear, so I wash my hands.

01:26:59.720 The average person who doesn't suffer from OCD tends to that threat, and then the warning flag goes down and I go on in my day.

01:27:07.720 But when I suffer from OCD, that warning flag is hyperactive.

01:27:11.720 So, I wash my hands, then I try to walk away, then I wash my hands again, then I try to walk away.

01:27:16.720 So, now I'm stuck in this ritualized loop for eight hours.

01:27:20.720 If I go check whether the back door is locked, if I check once and the flag goes down, it's finished.

01:27:26.720 And that's fine.

01:27:27.720 But if I spend eight hours checking it so that I don't show up to work, then we're going to have a problem.

01:27:31.720 My OCD becomes dysfunctional.

01:27:33.720 So, empathy, when calibrated properly, is perfectly fair.

01:27:38.720 We like to think that all people here are empathetic.

01:27:40.720 That's wonderful.

01:27:41.720 But there are ways by which empathy misfires, certainly within the progressive calculus, where you end up with public policy that is disastrous.

01:27:51.720 So, that's really the topic.

01:27:52.720 You're getting a preview of my next book.

01:27:54.720 Thank you.

01:27:56.720 So, you seem almost disappointed that us are referring to my girlfriend to her.

01:28:03.720 I'm curious if it's a view of empathy.

01:28:07.720 Yes.

01:28:09.720 It does.

01:28:10.720 It is protected.

01:28:11.720 As I explained yesterday, I'm an absolutist when it comes to freedom of speech and that I support the right of arguably the most offensive speech possible, which is Holocaust denial. 0.52

01:28:24.720 Right?

01:28:25.720 For obvious reasons, it's inaccurate and it's offensive and yet I support that right. 0.94

01:28:31.720 So, the question then becomes whether in his delivery that could be construed as direct incitement to violence.

01:28:39.720 If yes, then it should not be allowed.

01:28:41.720 If no, then as regrettable as his speech is, I would say he has to be kept here.

01:28:48.720 Would you say it's direct incitement to violence?

01:28:53.720 Probably not.

01:28:54.720 It would have to be because then it becomes a slippery slope of anything, right?

01:29:00.720 Anything that I said today could be construed as direct incitement against Muslims to it, right?

01:29:06.720 So, it has to be a very direct, clear incitement.

01:29:10.720 So, as I mentioned yesterday, you can criticize Judaism all you want in the most feverish ways. 0.99

01:29:19.720 That's good.

01:29:20.720 That's fine. 0.99

01:29:21.720 If you say, hey, you know the synagogue at the corner of Buffalo and State Street, when they come out from services at 6, let's go and kill them, then that becomes a problem.

01:29:31.720 So, in his case, it's a bit of a fuzzy case, but I would err on the conservative side of keeping him.

01:29:42.720 Anything else?

01:29:44.720 So, my colleagues specifically at my university or the greater academia?

01:29:56.720 Both.

01:29:57.720 Both?

01:29:58.720 At Concordia, as I was explaining to my former doctoral supervisor, there is an entente whereby they leave me be and they pretend that I don't exist.

01:30:09.720 But there is an office, undoubtedly, I'm being facetious, but almost literal.

01:30:14.720 There is an office in the administration building called the Gadsad problem, okay?

01:30:20.720 So, the colleagues, I'm very cordial with them, very friendly, there's no problem.

01:30:26.720 But, they certainly don't go out of their way to advertise my accolades.

01:30:31.720 They certainly don't go out of their ways to make my reality at Concordia.

01:30:37.720 So, I've now been denied, I held the highest professorship at Concordia for 10 years.

01:30:42.720 For it to be renewed would have been a no-brainer, because my dossier has only improved since.

01:30:48.720 And now, I know for a fact I'll never get it again.

01:30:51.720 So, the way they get to me is they hopefully make my life sufficiently miserable in a passive-aggressive way that I'll just scream, I quit.

01:30:59.720 Now, when it comes to the greater academia, so there are two ways to answer this.

01:31:08.720 Many universities have tried through the years to hire me, bring me on.

01:31:13.720 And then, usually, there would be a mutiny of rank and file who say, oh, no way, not over my dead body.

01:31:22.720 But, I think, based on the anecdotal stuff that I see, I receive, I mean, literally probably thousands of messages from professors.

01:31:31.720 This is, I'm just going to read for you the template.

01:31:34.720 Dear Professor Saad, my name is so-and-so, I'm a professor at so-and-so in such-and-such field.

01:31:42.720 Then, there is a paragraph or two of absolutely lovely compliments.

01:31:46.720 And then, it ends with the following line, and in case you were thinking about reading my letter on your show, please don't mention my name.

01:31:57.720 And then, I write back, dear professor so-and-so, thank you for your lovely words.

01:32:03.720 They're very touching.

01:32:04.720 Don't you think that the last sentence of your email is why we are currently in the trouble that we're in?

01:32:10.720 And then, that usually jolts them.

01:32:11.720 Oh, yeah, I know, but I'm going for tenure.

01:32:14.720 I'm associate professor.

01:32:15.720 I'm full professor.

01:32:16.720 I'm going for grant.

01:32:17.720 So, I think that, I can't give you what the number is.

01:32:21.720 I think there is an extraordinary number of professors that are yay, yay, gad, but very few who come out publicly.

01:32:30.720 And certainly, many fewer than there are out there.

01:32:39.720 The UCL lady.

01:32:40.720 Thank you very much again for speaking to Dr. Susan.

01:32:44.720 I wanted to ask what you think the future of academia is in this climate.

01:32:49.720 You know, you just touched on a lot of the issues that we're seeing.

01:32:53.720 People not wanting to step up, not wanting to say anything.

01:32:56.720 And what do you think they're going to end up?

01:32:58.720 The future of academia?

01:32:59.720 I missed that word.

01:33:00.720 The future of academia, yes.

01:33:02.720 Look, I love academia.

01:33:04.720 It's ingrained in my DNA.

01:33:07.720 So, any criticism that I have of academia stems from my love of academia in a general sense.

01:33:14.720 There are some endemic problems in academia that really need to be redressed.

01:33:19.720 I don't think that the university is in trouble.

01:33:22.720 Many of my colleagues who are in the free thinker ecosystem believe that, you know, we should erase all universities and start fresh.

01:33:31.720 I don't think that that's reasonable.

01:33:32.720 Cornell is not going to go anywhere.

01:33:34.720 But we certainly have to change the ecosystem in academia.

01:33:39.720 It has to be that professors can speak openly without worrying that any given syllable might get them in trouble.

01:33:46.720 It has to be that you can do any reason.

01:33:48.720 I mean, that's why we have tenure.

01:33:49.720 And yet, most people are so afraid of their shadow that it really is cancerous.

01:33:55.720 I mean, I know that most of you have heard of these problems, but you can't imagine the kinds of letters I receive.

01:34:01.720 Dear Professor Saad, this is an actual letter.

01:34:04.720 I was working in the cognitive psychology lab of this professor.

01:34:08.720 I was a first author on the paper.

01:34:11.720 Then he heard that I said something complimentary on Donald Trump to my friends.

01:34:18.720 Now my name is off that paper and I don't think I can stay in the lab.

01:34:23.720 Are you taking any doctoral students?

01:34:25.720 That's not Yemen.

01:34:28.720 That's not Pakistan. 1.00

01:34:30.720 That's not communist China.

01:34:32.720 It's not North Korea.

01:34:33.720 It's everywhere.

01:34:35.720 So, how many of these cases must be existing for people to say, this is not good.

01:34:40.720 We probably have to fight against this.

01:34:42.720 So, I'm hopeful that the pendulum will, you know, swing the other way.

01:34:48.720 But it's going to be a long battle because these parasitic ideas, depending on the parasitic idea,

01:34:54.720 took between 40 to 90 years for it to become entrenched within academia.

01:34:59.720 I hope it won't take that long to get rid of it, but it's a long battle.

01:35:03.720 Thank you.

01:35:04.720 I feel like I can add something to that answer.

01:35:09.720 You can help Cornell be saved.

01:35:14.720 If you think there is a reasonable, logical, evidence-based discussion here about antisemitism or behavior,

01:35:25.720 you want to follow, you can help Martha Pollock, President Pollock, answer the questions that

01:35:32.260 the House Ways and Means Committee sent to her to ask her about if he sent it to me in

01:35:40.500 the letter. I don't think she's given a good explanation yet. So I personally am going

01:35:46.440 to send a video this time to her. She doesn't often open my email. So please feel free to

01:35:55.640 also send a video this time to help her answer those questions, which I have saved for now

01:36:02.640 from losing her schedule of time. Thank you, Rhonda. Any other questions?

01:36:08.640 Mine? Or hers. 0.55

01:36:22.640 Thank you.

01:36:24.640 Yes.

01:36:25.640 I think your statement that most of the people who are at the

01:36:31.640 of defending Western civilization are outsiders who are experiencing something else. Yes.

01:36:32.640 Yes.

01:36:33.640 And I think your statement that most of the people who are at the

01:36:39.640 of defending Western civilization are outsiders who are experiencing something else. And I

01:36:46.640 I am one of those, you know, people. So those of us who are outsiders actually have something

01:36:53.640 to compare the Western civilization. Exactly.

01:37:00.640 But some, I mean, but those who are within the Western civilization do not have something 0.59

01:37:07.640 else to compare what they have. Sure.

01:37:14.640 So you do not really know what the charity or what they have because they do not have something

01:37:21.640 else to compare. Sure.

01:37:22.640 How would you have someone who is within that kind of box to really see reasons to consciously

01:37:29.640 compare other civilizations to other civilizations to the Western civilization and then try to protect

01:37:36.640 what they have. Right.

01:37:37.640 Well, yeah.

01:37:38.640 Well, secondly, in providing solutions to the Jew ledger, is there something that the Jew could 0.97

01:37:44.640 do to protect herself from being hated? For example, is there something that the Jew could do to protect

01:37:51.640 herself or herself from being hated? For example, is there something that the Jew could do to protect

01:38:09.640 other people from being hated? For example, some other things like that. They seem to be overachievers.

01:38:17.640 And since that is one of the reasons, based on the data that you have given. And also, some texts, some religious

01:38:30.640 texts that they support the hatred of the Jew.

01:38:36.640 You mean that demonstrates Jew hatred in those religious texts? Is that what you're asking?

01:38:42.640 Sorry, I didn't get that.

01:38:43.640 You're saying, are there some religious texts that support Jew hatred in those canonical texts? Is that what you're asking?

01:38:50.640 I mean, it's something that I should do, based on the context I'm coming from. So that is not the question I'm asking.

01:38:55.640 Okay.

01:38:56.640 Yeah.

01:38:57.640 But is there something that the Jew could do? Not just what you're asking?

01:39:01.640 Well, you may not like my answer, but it's not a flippant one. The best revenge is a life well lived, right? And so the way that I walk, despite the fact that I'm physically not tall, is I walk tall, right? Walk with dignity, be proud of who you are, of what you've achieved.

01:39:23.640 There is no way by which I could do a dance so that you could love me more, right? Because I deserve to be respected and loved, and I don't need to acquiesce. I don't mean to your hatred, but to the hatred that, right? It's the guy who said, but you're not a Jew Jew.

01:39:38.640 Getting to know me can also help, right? One of the problems that we have in hatred in general, not just Jew hatred, is you don't know the other. The other is diabolical. But when you sit down with a dinner, and that's why, for example, I get upset when people say, oh, you're hating Muslims.

01:39:56.640 No, my culture is Arabic. I speak Arabic at home. We eat Arabic food. We listen to Arabic. So when I sit down with those guys on the soccer field, then they say, you know what? I think I heard wrong things about Jews because there seems to be really cool ones.

01:40:13.640 So I think it's just talking to people, getting to know them, removing that othering border, and hopefully that can help. But to your earlier point about it's the immigrants who defend the most, I made that point earlier, which is, you know, take someone like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who's a Somali immigrant, who left, who's an ex-Muslim, right? 0.75

01:40:35.140 You know that she's been cancelled at almost every school where she tries to go to speak. Because the Western white person from Oberlin knows Islam more than the Somali woman who comes from a thousand years of Islam.

01:40:52.360 That's the progressive arrogance. So we don't want to listen to this Somali bigot. She's a racist. I know better. I'm a white liberal person from Oberlin. 0.98

01:41:01.740 And so that's how you fight back, right? You speak out. Be a honey badger. And then hopefully that instigates or triggers the courage of others, and we can solve the problem.

01:41:18.060 How are you, sir?

01:41:19.080 Thank you, sir. Thank you so much for the speech again. My question, I hope, won't be interpreted in a way where I'm phrasing authoritarian systems.

01:41:28.080 But, under authoritarian systems, we quickly have a very powerful and sensitive society, even for things that they probably should be appropriate for, like this with China, Russia.

01:41:41.460 They almost always take the position of strength and such. And in the West, where we do have a sense that we have a moral right, nevertheless, it seems instead of taking the position of strength, we glamorize features that would be associated with a lot of things.

01:42:03.460 But, in I don't know, it's a paling of a normal problems.

01:42:11.400 It's normal. How a family involved the idea, right?

01:42:16.720 So, let us start happening.

01:42:25.480 and not hurting anyone, and apologizing.

01:42:31.480 So, from an evolutionary perspective, and from the perspective of us,

01:42:37.480 I think we are more or less all agree that we have a practice system

01:42:43.480 and authoritarian regimes in China and Russia, right?

01:42:46.480 Our victims are on success and what is playing this type of behavior, right?

01:42:52.480 But a lot of Jews, in America specifically, right,

01:42:58.480 they do go to Auslan, for instance,

01:43:01.480 from the Rio de Janeiro to the Sea of Auslan,

01:43:04.480 which are the same as the queers and such and such. 0.99

01:43:10.480 So, thank you.

01:43:12.480 Right. So, I'll focus on your point how many of the virtues

01:43:17.480 that we view as laudable in the West are viewed differently

01:43:21.480 in other societies.

01:43:23.480 I actually wrote an article on this and I called it,

01:43:27.480 I proposed a new concept called cultural theory of mind.

01:43:32.480 Okay. So, theory of mind is a principle that is fundamental to human sociality.

01:43:40.480 What's theory of mind?

01:43:41.480 It's my being able to put myself in the mind of another so that we can have a proper discussion,

01:43:49.480 exchange, right?

01:43:50.480 I need to have the ability to say,

01:43:51.480 well, what do I think she may know so that I can talk to her, right?

01:43:55.480 By the way, one of the ways that you diagnose autism in very young children

01:44:00.480 is you give them a test that gauges whether they have theory of mind or not,

01:44:06.480 and autistic children fail the theory of mind test.

01:44:10.480 Now, why am I talking about all this?

01:44:12.480 The West suffers from cultural, lack of cultural theory of mind,

01:44:18.480 or what I also called cultural blindness, meaning they think that the values that they view as honorable

01:44:27.480 are those that other societies view as honorable, and it's the exact opposite of that.

01:44:34.480 You view, you meaning the West, infinite, unequivocal magnanimity as a positive,

01:44:44.480 what do you think the Middle Eastern mindset reads?

01:44:47.480 What's the word?

01:44:49.480 Weakness.

01:44:51.480 You view compassion, they view weakness.

01:44:55.480 You view empathy, they view weakness.

01:44:58.480 Now, that doesn't mean that people in the Middle East are not empathetic and compassionate and kind,

01:45:03.480 but those acts that shape, say, public foreign policy,

01:45:09.480 that in the West I can tap myself on the back and go,

01:45:12.480 look what a magnanimous, compassionate, empathetic person I am,

01:45:16.480 all that the Eastern mindset reads is weak, weak, weak.

01:45:21.480 And I'm often dumbfounded when I see some of the positions taken by Westerners 0.99

01:45:29.480 when dealing with those other societies.

01:45:31.480 Because it really is akin of one person speaking in English, the other person speaking in Cantonese.

01:45:38.480 We can't have a conversation.

01:45:40.480 We speak different languages.

01:45:42.480 So that's what happens with cultural theory of mind.

01:45:44.480 And that's probably going to be something that I discuss in greater detail in the next book.

01:45:48.480 So thank you for that question.

01:45:49.480 I'm just thinking that at Cornell, we don't have to worry about the Mary in the coma,

01:45:58.480 because we're trying to shut down all the homas. 1.00

01:46:01.480 And that's our solution.

01:46:02.480 And I want to thank Dad for giving such a great series of conversations.

01:46:07.480 Thank you.

01:46:08.480 Thank you.

01:46:20.480 Thank you very much, God.

01:46:21.480 Thank you.

01:46:22.480 Thank you.

01:46:23.480 Thank you very much, God.

01:46:24.480 Thank you very much, God.

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - May 01, 2024

My Cornell Lecture on Jew-Hatred (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_665)

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