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Jan 5, 2026, 5:36 AM

Mamdani’s Day One Was Antizionism, Not Governance

On his very first day in office, Mamdani made his priorities clear. Instead of addressing crime, housing, or basic needs for New Yorkers, he focused his attention on the Jewish community by reversing existing executive orders that had adopted...

Nov 21, 2025, 7:33 PM

Beware Those Who Denounce Antisemitism

In 1919, Vladimir Lenin delivered a speech titled “On Anti-Jewish Pogroms,” in which he declared that “antisemitism means spreading enmity towards the Jews.” On the surface, this sounds unequivocally condemnatory. Yet once one reads the entire speech, it becomes...

Nov 6, 2025, 9:13 PM

Scaffolding Anti-Zionism: The Hate We Missed

In pedagogy, scaffolding is the process of breaking a larger, more complex idea or task into smaller, manageable steps. For example, if I wanted to teach symbolism, I would scaffold the lesson by first asking students to identify concrete...

Oct 28, 2025, 8:53 PM

The A-Word: On Resisting to Name Antizionism

A few days ago, I gave a talk titled “The Rise of Antizionism in America.” As I was packing up, participants came over to thank me. One man stood off to the side, visibly confused. “Thank you for coming,” I...

Oct 18, 2025, 8:53 PM

Back in the USSA: the Afterlife of Soviet Antizionism

Why do city councils in America often have on their agendas Israel and Gaza, places that are thousands of miles away? What about improving local roads, schools, and transportation? Cherchez l’Union soviétique: Recently, my mother shared with me that when she...

Oct 25, 2021, 6:50 AM

The Sound is Loud and Clear: Will Jews Listen?

The book jacket of David Baddiel’s new must-read Jews Don’t Count reads: “How identity politics failed one particular identity.” In it, Baddiel details the ways in which Jews, despite marching for every minority, have been jarringly left out, at...

Jul 3, 2021, 12:08 AM

The Crisis in Jewish Education

Within Jewish families in North America, one reason to send kids to Jewish day schools, and/or to Jewish youth programs is to avoid anti-Israel bias in the classroom. This strategy, however, has proven to not only be ineffective, but...

Mar 14, 2019, 10:08 PM

Anti-Semitism for Dummies: A Visual Guide

Termed the “longest hatred,” there are currently over five leading definitions for anti-Semitism. They exist because anti-Semitism is a virus that mutates and takes on various forms, thereby making it, at times, difficult to identify. And because there are...

Oct 31, 2018, 3:15 PM

After Pittsburgh, America Says No to Anti-Semitism

I teach a class on Crime and Punishment, in which we begin by reading Dostoevky’s eponymous novel and move on to examine the dangerous intersection between ideology and politics that impacted two of the leading totalitarian regimes of the...

Jul 23, 2018, 12:38 AM

The evolving anti-Semitic language that makes anti-Semitism acceptable

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If hierarchies of power govern society, and Israel and the Jews are powerful, then they are automatically unjust

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About Me

Dr. Naya Lekht received her PhD in Russian Literature from UCLA, where she wrote her dissertation on Holocaust commemoration in the Soviet Union. Naya publishes and teaches on contemporary forms of Jewish hatred and the Arab-Israeli conflict. She is a host and creator of Don't Know Much About, a podcast that deals with antizionism, education, and history. In 2024, she was named a top 10 Zionist Visionary by the Jerusalem Post and the JNF.