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The concept and term "cultural marxism" has been grabbed by such a huge swath of people, most of whom have absolutely no idea it is or could be anti-Semitic (because you have to be pretty out there to associate Marxism with Jews to begin with), that claiming all or most uses of it are anti-Semitic is wrong.

There's just no way to paint that huge of a group with that brush unless you think it's so double-secret subconscious that the majority of the people using it don't even know they're anti-Semites.

Cultural Marxism has been explicitly anti-Semitic from the beginning, and early adherents argued that it was necessarily anti-Semitic. So people who believe in the conspiracy now are either anti-Semitic themselves, or profoundly ignorant. Neither one is a good look.

Or they've taken the term, misunderstanding it, perhaps, and redefined it to express ideas they actually have.

Whether those are good ideas is another topic.

This is a particularly ridiculous straw man because a good portion of the critics of cultural marxism are Jews.

Don't know where, certainly not in the memo.

In his Jordan Peterson interview he talks about it quite extensively.

In the footnotes, iirc