Kenneth Stern in 2019: *I drafted the [IHRA] definition of antisemitism. Rightwing Jews are weaponizing it.*

He says it was not designed to be a basis for censorship and objects to its use for that.

Nowadays, said weaponization has spread to the entire right wing, both Jews and non-Jews, including powerful right wing Christians with billions of dollars. In 2022, Stern, himself a Zionist, condemned the use of this distortion of his work to falsely label political support for Palestine as "antisemitic".

He also explains that encouragement of a culture of hatred of some groups — whichever groups they may be — promotes hatred of other groups. One bigotry promotes other bigotries. Thus, right-wing leaders that justify hate in the name of opposing antisemitism indirectly promote antisemitism (as well as the hate they try to justify).