Trump's Victory, Musk's Influence, and Growing Up Jewish in Lebanon (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_746)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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This was my inaugural appearance on Erin Molan's show on Sky News Australia. The original link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDkGBjohBis&t=1s _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad To subscribe to my exclusive content on Twitter, please visit my bio at https://twitter.com/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted on November 8, 2024 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1760: https://youtu.be/Ng4S02zDxf0 _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0	Dr. Gardsard is a big deal, to put it bluntly. Over a million followers on Twitter, now X,
0:06.8	and Elon Musk is one of his biggest fans, and it's not hard to see why. He calls out nonsense
0:12.8	and is warning that what he saw as a Jewish child in Lebanon is a lot closer to our home
0:18.3	than we might think. He's a visiting professor and global ambassador at Northwood University,
0:23.5	a famed author, and I'm so pleased to say he joins me now.
0:27.1	Dr. Gard, so good to see you.
0:28.8	Thank you so much for coming on, Erin.
0:31.0	Tell me a little bit about your childhood.
0:32.7	I'd imagine it would be a little bit tough being in that position.
0:36.2	Right.
0:37.1	Well, contrary to what people think,
0:39.7	Lebanon was not this utopia of progressive tolerance.
0:43.7	I mean, you're tolerated until you're not, right?
0:45.8	And then you better run real fast.
0:48.2	So I tell many stories of how difficult it was to be Jewish in Lebanon,
0:52.5	even before the Civil War in 1975.
0:54.8	So, for example, when I was five, the Egyptian president, Gamala Abdin Nassad had passed away,
1:00.4	and he was a revered guy in the Arab world.
1:03.0	Well, when he passed away, all the people would go on the streets,
1:06.0	and the first thing that they would sing or chant or shout was death to Jews, death to Jews.
1:12.5	So as a five-year-old boy, I was looking at my mother and saying,
1:15.4	why are they screaming, death to Jews?
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