Gad Saad: What Happens When a Civilization Can’t Tell the Truth

00:00 – Who Is Dr Gad Saad — and Why His Warning Matters
00:39 – When Violence Against Jews Becomes “Normal”
05:37 – Suicidal Empathy: The Idea That Changed Everything
09:33 – How “Islamophobia” Became a Silencing Weapon
13:34 – What Happens When a Civilization Can’t Name the Threat
16:14 – Why a “Peaceful Majority” Can Still Be a Civilizational Risk
19:15 – Why Vetting Sounds Good — and Fails in Reality
24:38 – When Western Empathy Turns Into Self-Destruction
27:36 – The Fatal Flaw in Suicidal Empathy
28:38 – Immigration, Policy, and the Cost of Moral Blindness
33:53 – Growing Up Jewish in the Arab World: A Personal Reckoning
43:11 – Is Israel’s Existence the Real Offense?
48:56 – One Message in Arabic, Another in English
53:57 – Qatar, Power, and the Game the West Doesn’t See

Gad Saad REVEALS the Dangerous Illusion Driving the West

In this powerful and unfiltered conversation, Dr. Gad Saad — Lebanese-born Jewish scholar, evolutionary psychologist, and author of The Parasitic Mind and the forthcoming Suicidal Empathy — delivers one of his most urgent warnings yet.

From rising antisemitic violence to mass immigration, from Western moral confusion to the psychological concept he calls “suicidal empathy,” Gad Saad explains how good intentions, when taken to extremes, can lead civilizations to undermine themselves.

Drawing on data, evolutionary psychology, lived experience growing up Jewish in the Arab world, and decades of academic research, Saad challenges some of the most protected assumptions in Western discourse — including why certain ideologies are shielded from criticism, why “vetting” often fails in practice, and what happens when a society loses the ability to tell the truth.

This is not a partisan rant.
It is a civilizational diagnosis.

In this interview, Gad Saad explains:

Why antisemitic violence keeps repeating — and why people grow numb to it

What “suicidal empathy” really means, and how it reshapes Western policy

How accusations like “Islamophobia” function as silencing mechanisms

Why even a small violent minority can pose a serious civilizational risk

Why immigration vetting sounds good in theory — but fails in reality

How Western compassion can turn into self-destruction

What it was like growing up Jewish in Lebanon during rising Islamist hostility

Whether Israel’s existence is a land dispute — or something much deeper

Why Arabic-language messaging often differs dramatically from English narratives

Qatar’s double role as both mediator and sponsor — and what the West misses

Throughout the discussion, Saad returns to one central question:
What happens when a civilization can no longer name the ideology harming it — or tell the truth about the consequences?

This interview is essential viewing for anyone trying to understand:
antisemitism, Israel, radical ideologies, Western decline, free speech, immigration, and the moral blind spots shaping global politics today.

Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, public intellectual, and bestselling author whose work applies evolutionary psychology to culture, ideology, and human behavior. His books include The Parasitic Mind and the upcoming Suicidal Empathy.

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