There's an expression in Arabic.

First we come for the Saturday people,

then we come for the Sunday people.

So first we will rid the land on the Jews.

But don't worry, Christians, we're coming for you next.

My name is Gad Saad, and this is my story.

I am a professor, author, and evolutionary behavioral scientist. So I was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1964.

We were part of the last remaining dwindling community of Lebanese Jews. But in terms of my childhood growing up in Lebanon, it was a happy childhood, although several elements made it less than ideal.

Certainly from a Jewish perspective, I experienced Jew hatred on countless occasions.

For example, when I was almost six years old,

Gamal Abdan Nasser, the president of Egypt, had just died.

When he passed away, as often happens in the Middle East, people take to the streets to engage

in all sorts of feverish lamentations and so on.

And as people were proceeding down my street, one of the most conspicuous chance was death

the Jews, death the Jews. And this is as a five-year-old boy, almost six, that stunned me.

Mom, why are they screaming death to Jews? What do we have to do with this?

When I was about nine or ten, we were in class, and the teacher asked each of the kids to stand up and

tell us what they wanted to become when they grew up.

I want to be a doctor. I want to be a soccer player. I want to be a police officer.

A kid stands up and says, when I grow up, I want to be a Jew killer, to raucous laughter and applause.

When I was 10, the Civil War broke out in Lebanon in 1975, where it really became impossible to be Jewish,

death awaited you every second of every day during the Lebanese Civil War. There were snipers

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