Certification
Six credentials. One clinical ladder.
The ladder is sequential. Each credential is earned, verifiable, and built directly on the framework in the book.
LEVEL ONE
Understanding IDS
The foundation. What IDS is, why older vocabulary failed, and why the disorder is located in the hater rather than the Jew. Covers the eight IRONICAL symptoms, the long history of the disorder and its changing masks, and the line between legitimate criticism and pathological fixation. Written for the intelligent reader with no clinical or historical background.
Credential: IDS Foundations Certificate
LEVEL TWO
Countering IDS
The antidote to a false story is a true one, delivered with sources. Jewish indigeneity and continuous presence, the real record of 1948 and 1967, the meaning of the slogans, the blood libel across the centuries, and the pipeline that turns a briefing into a headline. You learn the falsehood, the counter-fact, and the citation, in that order, so you can hold the line under hostile conditions without raising your voice. Completing this level certifies you to counter IDS in public, on social media, on campus, and at the podium.
Credential: IDS Counter-Narrative Specialist
LEVEL THREE
Diagnosing IDS
The clinical core. The five diagnostic criteria, with emphasis on fact-immunity as the line between a correctable bias and a diagnosable syndrome, and the six clinical red flags that separate honest criticism from fixation. Teaches the differential between IDS-N (reality-testing intact) and IDS-P (reality-testing lost) and why that distinction governs both prognosis and personal safety.
Credential: IDS Diagnostician
LEVEL FOUR
IDS Intervention
Diagnosis without treatment is commentary. Triage, cognitive disruption for the mild, structured factual re-exposure for the susceptible, and containment for those beyond persuasion. Teaches where intervention pays, how to treat the bystander, and the honest point at which treatment stops and protection begins.
Credential: IDS Intervention Specialist
LEVEL FIVE
Self-Protection
The diagnosis has a body count, and this level assumes it. Reading the escalation from rhetoric to action, situational awareness, target-hardening for home and community, digital defense against harassment, and psychological resilience. Closes with the fundamentals of physical self-defense. Delivered in partnership with the Federation of Israeli Martial Arts (FIMA) and Kavanah Krav Maga.
Credential: IDS Protection Specialist
“The hatred in this book does not stay on the page. It comes for Jews in the street, which is why I teach them to fight back.”
“I have trained Egoz special forces in Israel alongside Dr. Farber, and I have taught ordinary people to defend themselves, so I know that clarity under threat saves lives.”
LEVEL SIX
Certified Instructor
For graduates of all five levels who will teach the curriculum to schools, congregations, corporations, and law enforcement. By application. Covers the pedagogy of a contested diagnosis, the discipline of when not to diagnose, hostile-room management, and fidelity to the framework.
Credential: IDS Certified Instructor
A diagnosis without a response is a description. This curriculum trains the people who respond.