Transcript [00:00] A couple weeks ago, there was a [00:01] conference in Jerusalem. It was the [00:03] second annual conference on combating [00:05] anti-semitism. [00:07] It focused heavily, as it should, on the [00:10] threat of Islam, the threat of Islam to [00:13] Jews worldwide. And one of the speakers [00:15] at the convention, at the conference, [00:17] was Gad Sad. Maybe you've heard of him. [00:19] He is a great public intellectual. He's [00:22] really a professor up in Canada. [00:26] And he's of Lebanese origin. He tells [00:28] his story in the speech that he gave at [00:30] the conference, but he also talks about [00:33] a problem that I want to address. The [00:36] problem of Jews who turn against the [00:40] Jewish people. So, let's go take a look [00:41] at this speech and then I've got a [00:43] little bit to say about it. [00:54] Thank you. [00:59] Hello everybody. [01:01] Glad to see you all here. [01:04] So today what I thought I would do is [01:08] explain how Jew hatred is akin to a [01:12] latent virus. [01:14] A latent virus is one that can infect a [01:17] human being but then it could lay [01:20] dormant for many many years and there is [01:22] something that triggers its resurgence. [01:25] So, for example, for many of you who are [01:28] in your 50s or 60s, [01:30] you've heard about the shingles virus. [01:33] The shingles virus lays dormant in you [01:35] and then when you're in your middle age, [01:37] it could flare up and cause some serious [01:40] complications. And so I'd like to [01:42] demonstrate how [01:44] in my own life I've experienced the [01:47] shingles virus of Jew hatred. First [01:50] beginning in the Middle East in Lebanon [01:53] and continuing in Montreal, Canada and [01:57] but between those two periods from the [01:59] 1970s to more recently [02:03] the shingles virus of Jew hatred laid [02:05] dormant for many many years. But now it [02:08] is so so flaring up that I long for the [02:12] warm days of the Lebanese civil war [02:15] given some of the realities that I face [02:17] uh in Montreal. So let's begin with my [02:22] background. I was born in by the way [02:24] usually if I didn't have an injury I [02:26] would be walking everywhere. I'm a very [02:28] animated speaker so you'll forgive me if [02:30] I'm a bit more restrained in my [02:32] movements. Uh I was born in Beirut, [02:34] Lebanon. We were part of the last [02:38] generation, last group of Lebanese Jews [02:42] that had steadfastly refused to leave [02:44] Lebanon. And this is exactly where the [02:46] shingles virus is a really apt metaphor [02:49] because people say, "Well, but you had a [02:51] great life in Lebanon." Well, yes, we [02:53] had a great life until we had to put on [02:55] running shoes and run really fast to [02:58] avoid being executed. [03:00] That said though, even though Lebanon [03:03] was referred to as the colloquially as [03:05] the Paris of the Middle East, it wasn't [03:08] as tolerant as you would think. So, let [03:10] me give you some examples of the [03:13] tolerance that we faced in Lebanon. In [03:16] 1970, when I was 5 years old, Gamal [03:20] Abdaser, the panarabist [03:23] president of Egypt, had just passed [03:25] away. and he was revered in much of the [03:27] Arab world. And as often happens in the [03:30] Middle East, when somebody dies, people [03:32] take to the street and they do all these [03:35] big lamentations. [03:38] As they were proceeding down my street, [03:40] thousands of them, what's the thing that [03:42] they were pro singing or screaming? [03:45] Death to Jews. Death to Jews in Arabic. [03:49] And as a 5-year-old, I was confused. I [03:52] turned to my mother, why are they [03:53] singing death to Jews? because some guy [03:55] died in Egypt. She said, "Just keep [03:57] quiet. Put your head down." So that was [03:58] my first experience of Jew hatred, [04:01] intolerant, [04:03] progressive Lebanon. [04:05] Fast forward to about two years before [04:07] the civil war, our teacher asked us to [04:10] each get up and say what we wish to be [04:13] when we grow up. I want to be a [04:15] policeman. I want to be a nurse. I want [04:17] to be a soccer player. And a kid gets up [04:20] and says, "When I grow up, I want to be [04:23] a Jew killer." to everybody's [04:26] applause and laughter. [04:28] My brother David, who's 10 years older [04:31] than me, was the Lebanese Juro champion [04:34] for several years in a row. And that [04:36] brings great shame in Lebanon for a [04:38] Jewish guy to be constantly winning all [04:41] these athletic competitions. And so he [04:43] was approached by some men. This is [04:45] before the start of the civil war. He [04:47] was approached by some men who told him [04:50] that it was time for him to retire lest [04:53] he may face some unfortunate accident. [04:57] And he ended up leaving Lebanon to [04:58] pursue his career in in Paris, France. [05:02] This is before the civil war. Now in [05:04] 1976, we had already immigrated to [05:07] Montreal, Canada. And coincidentally, [05:10] the Olympics that year happened in [05:12] Montreal. It was the 1976 Montreal [05:15] Olympics. and my brother ended up [05:18] representing Lebanon in the 1976 [05:22] Montreal Olympics. So the same Jewish [05:24] guy who in 1973 had to leave Lebanon [05:28] because he suffered from the dreadful [05:30] disease of being Jewish, we could [05:33] forgive the fact that he's Jewish once [05:35] he represents Lebanon. That's what we [05:36] mean in progressive Paris of the Middle [05:39] East. [05:41] On one of their return trips to Lebanon, [05:43] my parents in 1980 were kidnapped by Abu [05:47] Nidal's group, Fatah. And so many of the [05:52] tragic stories that of course we all [05:54] heard about post October 7th is what my [05:58] childhood was like in progressive [06:01] tolerant Lebanon. So this is the sort of [06:05] world that I come from. I'll just [06:07] mention one quick story and then I'll [06:09] move to the present Jew hatred that I [06:11] have faced [06:14] as we left the Beirut International [06:18] Airport to immigrate to Canada [06:22] and as the pilot [06:25] gave a alert that we were now outside of [06:28] the Lebanese airspace, [06:31] my mother takes out a Star of David, [06:34] puts it around my neck and says, "Now [06:36] you could wear this, not hide your [06:38] identity, and be proud of who you are. [06:40] Now, hold that thought because 45 plus [06:44] years later, [06:47] about 2 weeks after October 7th, my son [06:50] had just returned from a soccer match in [06:53] Montreal in the east end of Montreal [06:56] where there's a particular prevalence of [06:58] a particular demographic group. And as [07:00] he picked me up with my wife, he said to [07:03] me, "Daddy, if you had come to watch me [07:06] play soccer where I play today, and if [07:08] you were wearing a Star of David, you'd [07:11] be dead." So in 1975, [07:14] I left Lebanon so that I can f finally [07:17] wear a Star of David. And in 2023, I [07:21] better take off a Star of David. And [07:24] yesterday, as a symbolic gesture, we [07:27] went to the Jerusalem souk and I bought [07:30] a star of David from Jerusalem. [07:31] [applause] [07:37] Just to [07:39] give you a sense also of my more [07:42] ancestral family in terms of Jew hatred, [07:45] some of my grandparents [07:48] escaped Syria because of Jew hatred. We [07:51] escaped Lebanon because of Jew hatred. [07:54] My brother-in-law's family are [07:57] Alexandrian Jews. They escaped Egypt in [08:00] the 50s because of Jew hatred. My wife's [08:03] family, their ancestors escaped the [08:06] Armenian genocide. [08:08] Their family too also left Lebanon. So [08:11] within my own family's narrative and [08:14] that of my wife, we've ran away from [08:17] Turkey, from Syria, from Lebanon, from [08:21] Egypt. But then we had finally made it [08:23] to to Canada. And for the next 25, 30 [08:27] years, there'd be little peppering of [08:30] minor Jew hatred, but it was generally a [08:34] good place to live. But then in around [08:37] 1998, late 90s, I started noticing what [08:42] I colloially and satirically referred to [08:44] as freedom veils. Those are the [08:47] wonderful noble emancipatory [08:50] saratoral designs that Islamic women [08:52] wear. And the first woman I saw, I [08:55] thought, okay, that seems okay. But from [08:58] 1998 till today, if I walk out of my [09:01] house, 30, 40, 50% of the women that [09:06] I'll come across will be veiled. But [09:10] what's the big deal, Professor Sad? It's [09:11] just an exotic headscarf. No, there is a [09:15] meaning to that headscarf. And you don't [09:17] have to be a fancy professor to predict [09:20] that demography is destiny and things [09:22] are going to go bad for Jews once c [09:25] certain other ideologies take over. My [09:28] home university is at Concordia [09:32] University for those of you who may have [09:33] heard of it. It's the university that [09:36] canled Prime Minister Netanyahu in 2002 [09:41] before it was cool to be cancelled. He [09:43] was cancelled 24 years ago. My [09:46] university has been referred to as Reza [09:49] University for 25 years. So imagine a [09:54] public figure such as myself who really [09:57] doesn't mince words in my defend my [10:00] defense of the Jewish people, my defense [10:02] of Israel, my antipathy towards many of [10:05] the cannons of Islam. Now having to walk [10:08] on campus to lecture, well, it was no [10:12] longer possible. So, in the 21st [10:14] century, a professor, a Jewish professor [10:18] in Montreal, Canada, has to take a [10:21] leave. I'm now on a two-year leave, but [10:24] it might, inshallah, become a permanent [10:27] resignation soon. Uh, I'm on a leave [10:30] because it's too dangerous for me to be [10:33] at Concordia. [10:36] So that gives you a bit of the type of [10:39] Jew hatred that unfortunately uh I've [10:42] had and my family has had to to face. [10:45] But now what I'd like to do is quickly [10:47] shift to some of the psychological [10:50] reasons why Jew hatred is so alluring to [10:54] the architecture of the human mind. Of [10:56] course we could talk about [10:58] theologicalbased Jew hatred in [11:00] Christianity or in Islam. We can talk [11:02] about the far right having Jew hatred in [11:05] their heart and so on. But I'd like to [11:07] talk about other forms of Jew hatred and [11:10] why they exist which you may not be [11:12] familiar with. The first type of Jew [11:15] hatred that I'm going to talk about is [11:17] arguably the one that I detest the most [11:20] and that's the self-loathing Jew who [11:23] hates Jews and who takes positions that [11:26] are perfectly suicidal. Hence suicidal [11:29] empathy. And for those of you who are [11:31] familiar with my work or maybe those who [11:33] are not, you'll you'll learn here. I [11:36] refer to such Jews as wood cricut Jews. [11:40] And why do I refer to them as wood [11:42] cricut Jews? This comes from the field [11:44] of neuroparistology. [11:46] A wood cricket is an insect that detests [11:50] water. It wants nothing to do with [11:52] water. But when it is parasitized by a [11:56] hair worm, it's a brain worm. The hair [11:59] worm needs the wood cricket to jump into [12:02] water happily commit suicide in order [12:06] for the hairworm to complete its [12:09] reproductive cycle. So the hairworm has [12:12] literally hijacked the brain of this [12:15] animal to suit its reproductive [12:17] interest. [12:19] Well, hash queers for Palestine are the [12:22] ultimate wood crickets. Gabbor mate the [12:26] degenerate imbeile is the perfect [12:29] example of a wood cricket because Gabbor [12:31] Mate as I explained in my lecture in Tel [12:33] Aviv a few few days ago for those of you [12:36] who don't know who he is he's a [12:38] addiction specialist in Canada who [12:40] basically says that I have been a [12:44] Holocaust survivor because that way he's [12:47] got the credentials the experiential [12:49] credentials to prepare you for what he's [12:52] about to say yet by the way his [12:53] Holocaust survivor story is that when he [12:56] was 6 months old, [12:59] he was given to a Christian family to be [13:01] protected. Well, 6 months old babies [13:03] cannot consciously survive anything. [13:06] They're not cognizant of what's [13:07] happening to them. But he uses that to [13:09] then say, "I'm Jewish. I went through [13:12] the Holocaust and I'm here to tell you [13:15] that the Nazis are nothing compared to [13:19] how Nazilike the Israeli state is." But [13:23] had Gabbor Mate the wood cricket been at [13:26] the Nova Festival and had he been uh [13:30] kidnapped, I think that he would be [13:32] praying for those Nazi IDF soldiers to [13:35] come and rescue him. That's what a wood [13:37] cricket is. [applause] [13:43] And the world that I inhabit, which is [13:45] the university ecosystem, is laden with [13:49] wood crickets. Not only Jewish wood [13:52] crickets, but oftentimes academics tend [13:54] to be very much on the left. And being [13:57] on the left is more likely to cause you [14:00] to become a wood cricket. For those of [14:02] you who don't know the famous novella by [14:05] France Kafka, who was himself a Jewish [14:07] author from the Czech Republic, he wrote [14:10] a great novella called the [14:11] metamorphosis, where a guy wakes up one [14:14] day and he he's an insect and now his [14:17] family has to interact with him. no [14:20] longer recognizing that he's a human [14:21] being but an insect. Well, I'm here to [14:23] tell you that 100 plus years after [14:25] France Kuff Kuffka's famous book, [14:28] academia is filled with nothing but wood [14:30] crickets. Second point about some of the [14:32] psychological reasons why Jew hatred [14:35] will regrettably maybe never go away. [14:38] Well, there is something in psychology [14:41] called the self-serving bias. The [14:43] self-serving bias is how we attribute [14:46] successes and failures in our lives. [14:49] Most people attribute successes [14:50] internally, right? I did well in my [14:53] business because I'm a smart [14:55] entrepreneur. It's because of my talents [14:58] that I did well. And we attribute [15:00] failures externally. I did poorly in my [15:03] business because customers are too too [15:06] dumb to understand my brilliance, right? [15:08] And that's a way to protect yourself as [15:10] you go through life. Well, imagine if [15:13] you can always find the ultimate [15:15] external culprit for all of your [15:18] individual and collective failings, [15:20] right? And it's the Jew. Why did I not [15:23] make it as an actor? Well, because it's [15:25] the Jews that control Hollywood. Why is [15:27] it that I didn't get a mortgage for my [15:29] house? Who controls the banks? It's the [15:32] Jews. By the way, did you know that in [15:34] 2010, very close to here in Shah in [15:37] Egypt, there were some shark attacks? [15:40] Well, the wonderful Egyptian muhabarat [15:43] which like the intelligence services [15:46] concluded that those sharks were Zionist [15:49] sharks. This is not a joke. You can go [15:52] and find it. 2010 shed attacks Jew [15:56] sharks because because the Jew sharks [15:59] would then damage the tourism industry [16:01] of uh Egypt. This is what I call six [16:04] degrees of Jew. for any calamity around [16:08] the world. I give you up to six causal [16:11] links to explain why it's the Jews [16:13] fault. So if an Amazon if a frog in the [16:16] Amazon dies, you've got six steps. How [16:18] do we blame it on Morai? [16:22] I will end because I'm looking that time [16:23] is up. Although they told me I could go [16:25] a bit longer. Thomas Soul for those of [16:28] you who don't know that is is he's he's [16:30] still alive. He's 95 years old. He's a [16:33] fantastic economist. He is the model of [16:35] what professors should be like. But he [16:38] so hated academia that in the early 80s [16:40] he said, "I'm out of here." He became a [16:43] fellow at the Hoover Institution. I've [16:46] been petitioning behind doors for him to [16:48] get the presidential fre, you know, [16:50] freedom medal from President Trump. [16:52] Well, Thomas Soul was once asked, [16:56] "What's it going to take, Professor [16:57] Soul, for the Jews to no longer be [17:01] hated?" and he paused and he gave one of [17:04] the most brilliant one-word answers. He [17:07] said, "Fail." In other words, for people [17:10] to stop hating the Jews, we need to [17:13] fail. And I'm here to tell you [17:15] regrettably that we shall always be [17:17] hated because we shall always persevere [17:20] and we shall always win. [17:24] [applause] [17:32] Sorry. There you go. I thought that that [17:34] was a brilliant diagnosis of the issue [17:36] of the [17:38] uh of especially the part where we [17:42] talked about wood crickets, Jews. Jews [17:45] who are selfhating Jews. And this has [17:48] been on my mind a lot since October 7th, [17:51] especially where we've had a lot of [17:53] anti-Israel sentiment coming out of the [17:55] Jewish community, coming out of the [17:57] progressive part of the Jewish [17:58] community. You've had a lot of a lot of [18:00] Jewish students. This is the dirty, you [18:02] know, the dirty little secret no one [18:03] wants to talk about is that is that some [18:05] of those tent encampments on college [18:07] campuses, those pro- kamas [18:09] demonstrators, they were led by by Jews, [18:12] by progressive Jews. Progressive Jews [18:14] are [18:16] some of the worst [18:19] enemies of the Jewish people themselves. [18:22] I don't think there's anyone who [18:24] consistently votes against their own [18:27] self-interest as much as progressive [18:30] left Jews. So, for example, here, take a [18:32] look at this. Um, in the election in New [18:36] York City that recently took place, exit [18:38] poll finds that onethird of New York [18:41] City Jews backed anti-Israel Mamani, [18:45] onethird of Jews voted for Mamani, who's [18:47] openly anti-Israel. He came up through [18:50] the ranks of politics as an anti-Israel [18:52] activist. That's how he got his start in [18:54] political activism, starting a students [18:56] for justice in Palestine [18:59] uh branch at his college campus. But [19:02] even though one-third of Jews backed [19:05] backed him, look what it says down here. [19:09] The Jewish neighborhoods, although a [19:12] third of Jewish voters back Mamani, [19:13] Jewish neighborhoods across the city [19:15] overwhelmingly favored Quuomo, [19:18] right? And the Jewish neighborhoods, it [19:20] then goes on to say that the Jewish [19:21] neighborhoods in New York were over 90% [19:26] for Quomo, not for Mamani. So what does [19:28] that tell you? It tells you that the [19:31] Jews who were voting for Mamdani [19:34] actually don't even live in the Jewish [19:36] neighborhoods. That actually makes sense [19:39] because the Jews who would vote for [19:41] Mamani have disconnected from the Jewish [19:43] community. They're not part of the [19:45] Jewish faith. Anyone who's adheres to [19:47] the Jewish faith lives near a synagogue [19:49] lives in the Jewish community. Jews live [19:51] in their own communities together. They [19:53] have their own schools, right? So it's [19:55] it makes it shouldn't be surprising that [19:57] the Jews who voted for Mandani [20:00] also weren't part of the numbers these [20:03] over 90% numbers that voted for Cuomo. [20:07] Not that he's a great guy, but he was [20:09] the alternative to Mamdani in the Jewish [20:12] neighborhoods. Okay, so this is just uh [20:14] I wanted you to see the speech from from [20:16] Godad. And uh yeah, it's just another [20:19] reminder that at this point in Jewish [20:22] history where the Jewish nation is in [20:24] our land and uh and the Jewish nation [20:26] has been restored, Jews who oppose who [20:29] oppose the well-being of the Jewish [20:31] people are kind of writing themselves [20:33] out of Jewish history. That's how I see [20:36] it. We'll talk about this topic more in [20:37] some upcoming videos. Please drop me a [20:39] comment. Let me know what you think [20:40] about these videos. Let me know what you [20:41] think about what God had to say. And [20:44] please make sure to uh check out all the [20:47] great content that we're putting up at [20:49] the Israel 365 News YouTube channel and [20:52] keep watching. God bless.
