Recently the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem came out with a definition/declaration of antisemitism that challenged the now widely used definition/guidelines published ten years ago by IHRA. The original is perceived by many progressives as too restrictive of the right to criticize Israel, for some a blow to Palestinian rights to freedom of expression. it threatens free speech and academic freedom and constitutes an attack on both the Palestinian right to self-determination, and the struggle to democratise Israel. Van Leer, an institute that consistently supports the Palestinian “narrative” that the Nakbah of 1948 is comparable to the Holocaust of 1941-45, came out with a declaration they called the “Jerusalem Declaration” that attempted to redress the perceived restraints on legitimate criticism of Israel. (Out of lack of deference to their pretension, I will henceforth refer to it as the