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'''Barbara Joan Estelle Amiel''', Baroness Black of Crossharbour (born December 4, {{LifeData|1940-12-04}}) is a British-Canadian journalist, writer, and socialite. She is also the wife of former media baron and convicted felon Conrad Black.<ref>{{REFnews
|last=
|first=
|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2010/07/19/black-gets-bail.html
|title=Conrad Black gets bail
|date=July 2010-07-19, 2010
|publisher=CBC News
|quote=
|url=http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/02/its-not-about-the-rights-of-the-child/
|title=Circumcision is not about the rights of the child
|date=Oct. 2, 2012-10-02
|website=MacLeans.ca
|quote=
|accessdate=2012-10-03
}}</ref> Barbara Amiel makes the case that the [[Cologne circumcision court judgment|Ruling in Cologne ]] is not Anti-Semitic, but a display of statism, government attacking individual liberty (in this case individual family unit) (ignoring the fact that the minors are not at liberty to decline [[circumcision]]). Mrs. Amiel (who is documented to be atheist<ref>{{REFweb
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|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/325/000028241/
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}}</ref>) admits that "I personally carry out certain [[Brit Milah| rituals ]] associated with my [[Judaism| faith ]] as a Jew, even knowing them to be utterly illogical. They are my tribe’s rituals. Had I a male child, I feel certain I would have had him [[circumcised]]."
She also calls the debate about [[circumcision ]] a "battle over the centimetres of [[foreskin]]".
While she states that "to make an anti-circumcision law based on the child’s inability to choose is insanity: a child by definition cannot choose anything—whether breastfeeding or tonsillectomy", she also considers that "as for getting consent for circumcision—after reading what is involved in doing it to an adult male, I cannot believe that any man would be mad enough to consent".
The article is illustrated<REFref>Archive ({{date|2012-10-02}}): http://www.circleaks.org/index.php?title=File:Amiel.pdf</REFref> with a photo of a Mohel [[mohel]] performing [http://intactipedia.org/index.php?title=Jewish_Circumcision#Metzitzah_B.27peh metzitzah [Metzitzah b'peh]] on a crying baby who was just [[circumcised]]. [[Metzitzah b'peh ]] is the ritual of oral suction of the blood of the [[penis]], performed by ultra-orthodox Jews, and recently repeatedly responsible for several cases of babies contracting genital [[herpes ]], e.g. in NYC, in 2012. At least 2 babies diedalready. {{SEEALSO}}* [[Canada]]* [[United Kingdom]]
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