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Dr. Naya Lekht was born in the former Soviet Union and grew up hearing her parents’ stories of life under a totalitarian leftist regime where antizionism permeated every sphere, schools, universities, workplaces, and the media. Alongside her parents’ experiences, Naya also carries the legacy of her grandfather, a Holocaust survivor. He often told her how he lived while his family did not, how his younger brother was burned alive in a synagogue in Poland, and his older brother was shot during morning roll call in a ghetto.

As an undergraduate at UC Santa Cruz, Naya encountered antizionism firsthand, in chants of “Hey hey, ho ho! Zionists have got to go!” echoing across campus and in classrooms where professors framed Israel as a colonial or apartheid state. With her parents’ stories from the Soviet Union in mind, she felt a sharp sense of historical repetition and knew she had to respond. Yet when she sought guidance from Jewish professionals and Jewish studies professors, she was repeatedly told that “antizionism isn’t antisemitism; it’s just politics.” Despite this pushback, Naya continued to confront antizionism on her campus.

Naya went on to earn her PhD in Russian Literature at UCLA, where she wrote her dissertation on Babi Yar and the suppression of Holocaust memory in the Soviet Union, research that also led her to uncover the origins of Soviet antizionism. While teaching at UCLA, she noticed a troubling trend among Jewish undergraduates: many lacked a basic understanding of the long history of anti-Jewish movements. Few had heard of the blood libel or The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. What they did know was that Nazis were evil and that contemporary white supremacy is the inheritor of the Third Reich. When Naya searched for curricula that addressed the broader history of anti-Jewish hatred beyond the Holocaust, she found very little. At one Jewish high school, a dean told her, “We have a robust Holocaust program,” but offered nothing on what came before or after.

Recognizing a profound gap in Jewish education, Naya began developing curricula on the history of the Jewish people and anti-Jewish movements. This work deepened her research into antisemitism and antizionism and solidified her commitment to understanding and teaching these phenomena across eras.

In 2017, while teaching a senior course at a Jewish high school in Los Angeles, Naya encountered a challenge: many students did not understand how labelling Israel a settler-colonial or apartheid state functioned as a new form of antisemitism. While searching for ways to teach this more effectively, she discovered what became a formative lecture by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, in which he described antisemitism as a “mutating virus.” He observed that Jews were “once hated for their religion, later for their race, and today for their state.”

Inspired by this framework, Naya began developing a curriculum that moved beyond static definitions of antisemitism to explain how and why Jew-hatred mutates. She created a new model that traces the three eras of Jew-hatred by identifying what each society considered

Executive Director STOP Antizionism

Natasha H. Pein is an educator, author, and corporate executive leader who speaks widely on the dangers of antizionism—its evolution, global spread, and strategies to dismantle it. Born in the former Soviet Union, where her family endured Jew-hatred fueled by relentless antizionist state propaganda that vilified Jews and Israel alike, portraying Israel as imperialist, colonizer, and racist. These formative experiences—growing up under Soviet antisemitism, surviving displacement, and rebuilding life in new countries—shaped her lifelong commitment to defending truth, justice, and Jewish identity. Natasha now lives in Canada, where she transformed her early trauma into a lifelong mission to expose and counter all forms of Jew-hatred, antisemitism and antizionism. 

Following the October 7 Hamas attacks, she launched Israel: 5000 Years of History, a widely circulated resource offering Jewish history and exposing myths.  After uncovering hundreds of antisemitic materials in Ontario’s K–12 curriculum for JEFA, she founded Pinnacle Integrity in Education for All (PIE4ALL.org), an initiative exposing hate and promoting integrity across K–12, higher education, and professional learning. PIE4ALL develops curricula and advocacy tools that empower students and educators to confront antizionism—the modern mutation of Jew-hatred. Its approach goes beyond Holocaust education, incorporating lessons from the MENA and Soviet Jewish exoduses and highlighting the recurring cycle of libels that has fueled persecution for over 2,000 years. By blending historical continuity with innovative pedagogy, PIE4ALL equips to recognize, resist, and dismantle antisemitic narratives.

Natasha now speaks widely on the dangers of antizionism, showing how libels, conspiracy theories, and denial narratives translate into real-world violence—from street attacks to schoolyard harassment. She is the author of Unmasking Antizionist Tactics and is currently writing The Antizionist Playbook: The New Face of an Old Hate. Her mission is driven by lived experience, more clarity, intellectual rigour, an executive-level strategy, and an unwavering determination to dismantle antizionist propaganda, defend truth with courage and intelligence, empower communities, and ensure that Jews never again surrender to hate.