The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad Death of the West by Suicidal Empathy - My Talk @ Tel Aviv International Salon (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_959)
Jan 30, 2026
Gad Saad, an evolutionary behavioral scientist and author of The Parasitic Mind and Suicidal Empathy, recounts surviving war, antisemitism, and academic hostility. He explores how ideas can hijack minds, defines suicidal empathy, uses biological metaphors, critiques campus ideologies and policy absurdities, and offers eight remedies to preserve reason and Western values.
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Childhood Warning Signs In Beirut
- Gad Saad describes growing up Jewish in Beirut and first hearing chants of "death to Jews" as a child.
- His mother taught him to keep his head down, marking early lessons about identity and danger.
Star Of David: Then And Now
- Saad recounts leaving Lebanon wearing a Star of David and later being told his son couldn't wear one in Montreal.
- He uses this to illustrate Western cities becoming unsafe for Jews due to "suicidal empathy."
Dinner Debate With A Postmodern Student
- Saad tells a 2002 dinner story where a postmodern student denied biological sex universals.
- He uses humor to expose intellectual contradictions of extreme postmodernism.
