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URL:https://www.chaimitzvah.org/events/the-assembly-line-of-antizionism-so
 viet-roots-of-todays-progressive-antizionism/
SUMMARY:The Assembly Line of Antizionism: Soviet Roots of Today’s Progres
 sive Antizionism
DESCRIPTION:This lecture is part of Antizionism: The History of an Ideology
 \, a six-part series hosted by Chai Mitzvah. The series examines the histo
 rical origins\, evolution\, and contemporary manifestations of antizionism
 . Sponsored by the Institute for the Critical Study of Antizionism.\n\nThe
  Soviet Union did not merely criticize Zionism\; it engineered a decades-l
 ong\, state-sponsored ideological project designed to repackage antisemiti
 sm as antizionism. This talk traces that campaign from its origins to its 
 global afterlife: how it began\, how it evolved\, and how it succeeded in 
 transforming Jew-hatred into a morally sanctioned political language. The 
 talk will map the ideological relay system through which Soviet antizionis
 m migrated into global circulation\, revealing its explicit entanglements 
 with Nazi antisemitism\, Arab nationalist and Islamist movements\, and Wes
 tern progressive frameworks. What emerged was not a critique of Israeli po
 licy\, but a coherent and portable ideology of Jewish demonization — the
  blueprint for contemporary antizionism.\nRegister Here\nDr. Naya Lekht is
  a scholar\, educator\, and writer known for bringing urgency and clarity 
 to the study of anti-Jewish hatred. She earned her PhD in Russian Literatu
 re from UCLA\, where her dissertation examined Holocaust literature with a
  focus on Babi Yar as a site of collective memory for Russian-speakers. He
 r research on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union informs her work on Soviet
  antizionism\, linking historical patterns of repression to contemporary f
 orms of anti-Jewish hatred.\n\nToday\, Dr. Lekht partners with Jewish and 
 non-Jewish private schools to develop rigorous\, historically grounded cur
 ricula on Israel\, the Middle East\, and Jewish identity\, empowering stud
 ents to think critically and engage confidently with one of the defining i
 ssues of our time. In 2024\, she was named one of the Jerusalem Post and J
 NF’s Top 25 Zionist “ViZionaries.” She is the co-founder of Stop Ant
 izionism\, an educational initiative addressing the realities students fac
 e in K–12 and higher education through a declaration that names antizion
 ism as today’s antisemitism. Her writing has appeared in the Jerusalem P
 ost\, Tablet\, Jewish Journal\, Algemeiner\, and Times of Israel\, and she
  regularly lectures in schools\, community institutions\, and public forum
 s on the history of anti-Jewish movements and how to teach this material w
 ith clarity and moral courage.
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