# Why Antizionism is the New Antisemitism: A PhD's Urgent Call to Educators

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Podcast: [IsraelCast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/israelcast-714324)
Published: 2025-12-10T16:39:00+00:00
Episode link: https://israelcast.libsyn.com/why-antizionism-is-antisemitism-a-phds-urgent-call-to-educators
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## Resource

In this powerful episode of IsraelCast, host Steven Shalowitz sits down with Dr. Naya Lekht, a leading scholar, educator, and writer who is reshaping how we understand Zionism, Jewish identity, and today's wave of antizionism. Drawing on her background as a Soviet-born Jew and her PhD research on how the USSR erased Holocaust memory and reshaped Jewish identity, Naya explains why antizionism is not "just politics" but the newest form of Jew hatred—and how the slogans shouted on campuses and streets today were carefully engineered in Moscow decades ago.

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