Naya Lekht Archives

Naya Lekht

Naya Lekht is a scholar of contemporary antisemitism. She holds a Ph.D. from UCLA, where she wrote about Holocaust literature in the Soviet Union, where she was born.

Higher education vs. the Jews

Are colleges and universities squeezing the Jews out?

Naya Lekht

May 31, 2023

Fighter jets fly over the Israeli flag on Independence Day celebrations in 1957. Photo by Moshe Pridan/Government Press Office.

Israel does not need anyone’s permission to exist

We must hold our heads up high and say ‘hinenu,’ we are here.

Naya Lekht

November 27, 2022

Pro-Israel demonstrators in front of the Federal Building in Los Angeles on May 12, 2021. Photo by Harvey Farr.

We are Jews because we are Zionists, we are Zionists because we are Jews

The struggle against anti-Zionism is the struggle for the freedom to be our true, authentic selves.

Naya Lekht

October 3, 2022

An illustrative view of a school-board meeting of the Oakland Unified School District. In May 2020, the school board passed a resolution stating that it supports “the California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Draft as written," despite concerns over anti-Semitism. Source: Screenshot.

Jewish teens are already targets, ethnic studies offers better aim

Language from the unit on “Teach Palestine” in the “liberated” curriculum links Zionism to right-wing politics, vilifies Zionism as being anti-inclusion and demonizes Israel. How will teaching these concepts not contribute to the hounding of pro-Zionist students?

Naya Lekht

September 6, 2021

The ‘Israel Question’

Just as the stateless Jew was an affront to the European race, so Israel today is an affront to the world’s sensibilities.

Naya Lekht

June 4, 2021

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