#66 Is Free Speech on Israel Under Attack? Kenneth Stern Drafter of the IHRA Definition

Kenneth Stern, lead drafter of the IHRA definition of antisemitism, discusses the shrinking space for free speech on Israel's oppression of the Palestinians.

Kenneth Stern is the director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate. He is an award-winning author and attorney, and was most recently executive director of the Justus & Karin Rosenberg Foundation. Before that he was director of the division on antisemitism and extremism at the American Jewish Committee, where he worked for 25 years.

Mr. Stern was the lead drafter of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's “working definition” of antisemitism. In December 2019, Stern published a piece in the Guardian: "I drafted the definition of antisemitism. Rightwing Jews are weaponizing it"