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Gad Saad warns ‘suicidal empathy’ could mean the collapse of Western civilization

Nypost · · 852 words · By Fox News
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Gad Saad warns ‘suicidal empathy’ could mean the collapse of Western civilization See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Topics 4

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Gad Saad warns ‘suicidal empathy’ could mean the collapse of Western civilization See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Common ground

7 Hamas attacks to gender ideology and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), author and scholar Gad Saad warns that Western civilization is on the brink of collapse.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Appeal to Fear: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder identified 5 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 95% confidence
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Name Calling / Labeling 90% confidence
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Appeal to Fear 85% confidence
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “While working as a professor at Concordia University, Saad announced that he was taking a leave of absence in 2024.”
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The Montreal Gazette reports that Gad Saad announced he is moving to the United States this summer (2024), and other sources confirm his transition to US-based roles, supporting the claim of a leave/departure from Concordia.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — David Saad (born 15 October 1954 in Beirut) is a Lebanese judoka. He competed in the men's lightweight event at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He also competed in the 1975 World Judo Championships.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Saad
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gad Saad (; Arabic: جاد سعد; Hebrew: גד סעד; born 13 October 1964) is a Canadian marketing professor at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University. He has argued for applying evolution…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gad_Saad
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following list of Concordia University people includes notable administrators, alumni and faculty of Concordia University, and its predecessors Loyola College and Sir George Williams University.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Concordia_University_p…
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Claim 2: “Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., asked Jackson to define the word “woman.” Jackson refused, stating that “I’m not a biologist.””
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Three independent web search results from different outlets (including WCIV and USA Today) confirm that Senator Marsha Blackburn asked Justice Jackson to define 'woman' and that Jackson responded she is not a biologist.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — With the advice and consent of the United States Senate, the president of the United States appoints the members of the Supreme Court of the United States, which is the highest court of the federal ju…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden_Supreme_Court_candid…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson (née Brown; kə-TAHN-jee; born September 14, 1970) is an American lawyer and jurist who is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Jackson was nomi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketanji_Brown_Jackson
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On February 25, 2022, President Joe Biden announced that he would nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson to the position of associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to fill the vacancy by S…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketanji_Brown_Jackson_Supreme_…
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Claim 3: “Gad Saad wrote a book titled “Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind,””
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The New York Post explicitly mentions Gad Saad's new book titled 'Suicidal Empathy: Dying to be Kind' published by Broadside Books.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gad Saad (; Arabic: جاد سعد; Hebrew: גד סעד; born 13 October 1964) is a Canadian marketing professor at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University. He has argued for applying evolution…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gad_Saad
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The exploitation of women in mass media is the use or portrayal of women as sexual beings in mass media formats such as television, film, music, and advertising to increase commercial appeal, often le…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploitation_of_women_in_mass_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Suicidal empathy is a purported phenomenon in which excessive, misdirected and pathological forms of empathy are claimed to be destructive for the party that exhibits it. This is often claimed to happ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicidal_empathy
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Claim 4: “Saad, who is Jewish, was born in Lebanon but fled the country with his family in 1975 during the civil war and eventually settled in Canada.”
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Multiple web search results confirm Gad Saad was born in Lebanon to a Jewish family and moved to Canada to escape the Lebanese Civil War in 1975.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — David Saad (born 15 October 1954 in Beirut) is a Lebanese judoka. He competed in the men's lightweight event at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He also competed in the 1975 World Judo Championships.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Saad
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gad Saad (; Arabic: جاد سعد; Hebrew: גד סעד; born 13 October 1964) is a Canadian marketing professor at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University. He has argued for applying evolution…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gad_Saad
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Saad (Arabic: سعد, romanized: Saʿd) is a common male Arabic given name. The name stems from the Arabic verb sa‘ada (‏سَعَدَ‎ 'to be happy, fortunate or lucky'). Saad is the stem of variant given name…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saad_(name)
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Claim 5: “and will be a distinguished professor there next year.”
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While evidence confirms he is currently a scholar at the University of Mississippi and was a visiting professor at Northwood University for 2024-25, there is no specific evidence in the provided text confirming he 'will be a distinguished professor there next year'.
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 23, 2026 ... 11 likes, 0 comments - mpbonline on April 23, 2026: "What brought Dr. Gad Saad @doctorgadsaad to Mississippi? On The Sit Down with Russ ...
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXeygsrFFKF/
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web search NEUTRAL — Oct 7, 2025 ... Ole Miss is one of the schools my son is applying to (and the one I hope he goes to). Happy to hear this confirmation. Thank you for going, and ...
https://www.facebook.com/Dr.Gad.Saad/posts/my-family-and-i-c…
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web search NEUTRAL — Aug 22, 2024 ... Northwood University is proud to announce the appointment of Dr. Gad Saad as a visiting professor for the 2024-25 academic year.
https://www.northwood.edu/news/dr-gad-saad-named-global-amba…
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Claim 6: “Saad currently serves as a scholar at the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at the University of Mississippi”
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The New York Post and other web search results explicitly state that Dr. Gad Saad is a scholar at the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at the University of Mississippi.
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web search NEUTRAL — GAD involves heightened amygdala and prefrontal cortex activity, reflecting an overactive threat-response system. It affects about 2–6% of adults worldwide, usually begins in adolescence or early adul…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_anxiety_disorder
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web search NEUTRAL — Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a mental health condition where you feel excessive worry about everyday situations. It happens often and may be hard to manage.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23940-general…
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web search NEUTRAL — The GAD-7 (General Anxiety Disorder-7) measures severity of anxiety, mainly in outpatients.
https://www.mdcalc.com/calc/1727/gad7-general-anxiety-disord…
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Claim 7: “the orgiastic depraved killing of 1,200 mainly Jewish people… the worst single day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust”
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Multiple sources confirm the death toll of approximately 1,200 people in the October 7 Hamas attacks. The description of it being the worst single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust is a widely reported factual consensus in the provided evidence.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas (an acronym from the Arabic: حركة المقاومة الإسلامية, romanized: Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah), is a Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist po…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Iranian Jews constitute one of the oldest communities of the Jewish diaspora. Dating back to the biblical era, they originate from the Jews who arrived in Iran as Babylonian captives. Books of the Heb…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Jews
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The October 7 attacks were a series of coordinated armed incursions from the blockaded Gaza Strip into the Gaza envelope of southern Israel, carried out by Hamas and several other Palestinian militant…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_7_attacks
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