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== Definitions of antisemitism ==
* "Hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people."<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.lexicodictionary.com/enbrowse/definition/anti-semitismantisemitism
|title=Anti-Semitism, English Definition
|website=Lexico
}}</ref>
}}
== History ==
Antisemitism has existed for thousands of at least 2,500 years.
Notably, the Book of Esther reports the case of Haman the Agagite who wanted to slay all Jews.<ref>{{REFweb
The Spanish Inquisition (1478-1834) required Jews to either convert to Roman Catholicism or leave Spain.<ref>{{URLwikipedia|Spanish_Inquisition|Spanish Inquisition|2024-02-16}}</ref>
Germany, under the Nazi regime (1933-1945), instituted the greatest pogrom of all time against its Jewish citizens, resulting in the death of 6,000,000 Jews.<ref>{{URLwikipedia|The_Holocaust|The Holocaust|2024-02-16}}</ref> These acts of antisemitism were not caused by the [[intactivist]] movement. It is a fallacy to associate antisemitism with [[intactivism]].
== Opposing circumcision on minors isn't antisemitic ==
The United Nations was charged with the development of international human rights law at its conception in 1945. A fundamental, important principal of human rights law is the universality of human rights. That means that everyone without exception, including male and female, young and old, Jew and gentile, enjoy the same [[human rights]].
''Security of the person'' is one of the most fundamental of human rights.<ref>{{REFdocument
|url=https://treaties.un.org/doc/Treaties/1976/03/19760323%2006-17%20AM/Ch_IV_04.pdf
|title=International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (official document)
|publisher=United Nations
|date=1967
|format=PDF
|accessdate=2024-02-06
}}</ref> It is universal and applies to everyone without exception. The [[Abrahamic covenant]] requires that the human right of boys born into Jewish homes to ''security of the person'' be violated. [[Brit Milah| Circumcision]] of a boy born into a Jewish home, therefore, is an antisemitic act.<ref>Circumcision actually is an amputation of substantial amounts of functional, erogenous, protective [[foreskin]] tissue from the [[penis]], so it is a major violation of the security of the person.</ref>
Opposing [[circumcision]] has nothing to do with antisemitism which is defined as being or acting against Jews because they are Jews, not because they do this or that. Opposition to [[circumcision]] is opposing a harmful action: medically unnecessary [[amputation]] of healthy, functional tissue from the genitals of non consenting minors, completely independent of parental beliefs.