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Every now and then, [[intactivists]] are generally assumed to be anti-Semitic, because they also engage against [[MGM]] on boys of Jewish parents. These allegations are generally unfounded, if only because the deliberate exclusion of the boys of Jewish parents in legal questions would be a group-specific special treatment, which in turn would has to be regarded as anti-Semitism, following the logics. If intactivists were to protect all children from genital mutilation that was not medically indicated, but omit the children of Jewish parents, they would have to be accused of anti-Semitism.
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'''Antisemitism''' (also spelled '''anti-semitism''' or '''anti-Semitism''') is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews.<ref>{{URLwikipedia|Antisemitism|Antisemitism|2022-05-17}}</ref><ref name="Oxford">{{REFweb
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Every now and then, [[intactivists]] are generally assumed to be antisemitic, because they also engage against [[MGM]] on boys of Jewish parents. These allegations are generally unfounded, if only because the deliberate exclusion of the boys of Jewish parents in legal questions would be a group-specific special treatment, which in turn would have to be regarded as antisemitism, following the logics. If intactivists were to protect all children from genital mutilation that was not medically indicated, but omit the children of Jewish parents, they would have to be accused of antisemitism.
  
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A uniform, generally binding definition of anti-Semitism doesn't seem to exist. There are different attempts at a definition. See below for a tiny selection of definitions.
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A uniform, generally binding definition of antisemitism doesn't seem to exist. There are different attempts at a definition. See below for a tiny selection of definitions.
  
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== Definitions of anti-Semitism ==
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== Definitions of antisemitism ==
 
* "Hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people."<ref>{{REFweb
 
* "Hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people."<ref>{{REFweb
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  |title=Anti-Semitism, English Definition
 
  |title=Anti-Semitism, English Definition
 
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* "hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group"<ref>{{REFweb
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* "hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group"<ref name="MWdef"/>
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The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Plenum suggested the following working definition of anti-Semitism:
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The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Plenum suggested the following working definition of antisemitism:
 
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== Opposing circumcision on minors isn't anti-Semitic ==
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== History ==
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Antisemitism has existed for at least 2,500 years.
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Notably, the Book of Esther reports the case of Haman the Agagite who wanted to slay all Jews.<ref>{{REFweb
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|url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Esther+3&version=AKJV
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|title=Esther Chapter 3
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|publisher=Bible Gateway
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}}</ref> This occurred in the years 483-473 BCE.
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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>
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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>
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These acts of antisemitism were not caused by the [[intactivist]] movement. It is a fallacy to associate antisemitism with [[intactivism]].
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== Opposing circumcision on minors isn't antisemitic ==
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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]].
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''Security of the person'' is one of the most fundamental of human rights.<ref>{{REFdocument
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|url=https://treaties.un.org/doc/Treaties/1976/03/19760323%2006-17%20AM/Ch_IV_04.pdf
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|title=International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (official document)
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|publisher=United Nations
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}}</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>
  
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Opposing circumcision has nothing to do with anti-Semitism 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 an action: medically unnecessary [[amputation]] of healthy tissue from the genitals of non consenting minors, completely independent of parental beliefs.
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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.
  
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According to a White Paper published by the Danish Mosaic Religious Society, no Jew will deny an intact boy the right to his membership of the Jewish society:
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According to a White Paper published by the Danish Mosaic Religious Society, no Jew will deny an [[intact]] boy the right to his membership of the Jewish society:
 
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  |Text=You are born a Jew if you are born to a Jewish mother. In principle, there are no Jewish dogma, which means, among other things, that one cannot "deprive" a Jew of his identity as a Jew. There are Jews who do not abide by Jewish rules in any form whatsoever, and others who have cherrypicked among those rules and only adhere to the rules they want. This also applies to circumcision. It might be said this way: <q>For most Jews it is crucial to be circumcised, but it is not essential to be circumcised to be a Jew.</q>
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  |Text=You are born a Jew if you are born to a Jewish mother. In principle, there are no Jewish dogma, which means, among other things, that one cannot "deprive" a Jew of his identity as a Jew. There are Jews who do not abide by Jewish rules in any form whatsoever, and others who have cherry-picked among those rules and only adhere to the rules they want. This also applies to circumcision. It might be said this way: <q>For most Jews it is crucial to be circumcised, but it is not essential to be circumcised to be a Jew.</q>
 
  |Author=Danish Mosaic Religious Society
 
  |Author=Danish Mosaic Religious Society
 
  |Source=White Paper: om rituel omskærelse af drenge, page 14
 
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If this statement is true, and there are no reasons to doubt it, Jewish males for whom it is vital to be circumcised can be circumcised as they turn of age, and they will still be valid members of the Jewish community.
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If this statement is true, and there are no reasons to doubt it, Jewish males, for whom it is vital to be [[circumcised]], can be circumcised as they turn of age, and they will still be valid members of the Jewish community.
  
 
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In 2007, the [[WHO]] found that 30% of the world’s male population were circumcised. Those 30% were distributed like this
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In 2007, the [[WHO]] found that 30% of the world’s male population were [[circumcised]]. Those 30% were distributed like this
 
* 69% Muslims
 
* 69% Muslims
 
* 0.8% Jews
 
* 0.8% Jews
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* 17.2% Others
 
* 17.2% Others
  
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Following these numbers, male Jews who are circumcised make up at most 0.8 % of the world's circumcised men (i.e. eight per thousand).<ref>{{REFweb
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Following these numbers, male Jews who are [[circumcised]] make up at most 0.8 % of the world's [[circumcised]] men (i.e. eight per thousand).<ref>{{REFweb
 
  |title=Male circumcision: global trends and determinants of prevalence, safety and acceptability
 
  |title=Male circumcision: global trends and determinants of prevalence, safety and acceptability
 
  |url=https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/43749/9789241596169_eng.pdf
 
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}}</ref> Therefore, it is totally flawed to claim that opposing circumcision is an expression of anti-Semitism or neo-Nazism.
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}}</ref> Therefore, it is totally improper to claim that opposing [[circumcision]] is an expression of antisemitism or neo-Nazism.
  
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Opposition to non-medical circumcision of minors as a parental right is directed against the act regardless of the parents' religious affiliation, and not just against the at most 0.8% Jewish circumcisions.
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Opposition to non-medical [[circumcision]] of minors as a parental right is directed against the act regardless of the parents' religious affiliation, and not just against the at most 0.8% Jewish [[Brit Milah| circumcisions]].
  
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== Anti-Semitism contradiction ==
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== Antisemitism contradiction ==
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=== Conceptual anti-Semitism in Judaism ===
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=== Conceptual antisemitism in Judaism ===
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The German website ''zwangsbeschneidung.de'' sees an "anti-Semitism contradiction in the Jewish religion created by [[Circumcision]]":
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The German website ''zwangsbeschneidung.de'' sees an "antisemitism contradiction in the Jewish religion created by [[Circumcision]]":
 
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  |Text=Anti-Semitism is definitely the violation of the human rights of a Jew because he is a Jew, circumcision of the male child is a violation of human rights, Jewish circumcision is done because the child is a Jew, so Jewish circumcision is an anti-Semitic act.<br>
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  |Text=Antisemitism is definitely the violation of the [[human rights]] of a Jew because he is a Jew, circumcision of the male child is a violation of [[human rights]], Jewish circumcision is done because the child is a Jew, so Jewish circumcision is an antisemitic act.<br>
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The conclusion is that if circumcision is the foundation of the Jewish religion, the foundation of the Jewish religion is an anti-Semitic act.<br>
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The conclusion is that if circumcision is the foundation of the Jewish religion, the foundation of the Jewish religion is an antisemitic act.<br>
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[[German Circumcision Act|§ 1631d BGB]] was created to enable Jewish circumcision. § 1631d BGB is therefore anti-Semitism by law. Anti-Semitism by law is fascist legislation.
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[[German Circumcision Act|§ 1631d BGB]] was created to enable Jewish circumcision. § 1631d BGB is therefore antisemitism by law. Antisemitism by law is fascist legislation.
 
  |Author=N.N.
 
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=== Anti-Semitism among (German) politicians ===
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=== Antisemitism among (German) politicians ===
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The anti-Semitism contradiction can not only be found in the religion itself, but also in the actions of German politicians in particular. If they e.g. deny the own human and fundamental rights of children of Jewish parents, out of fear of being accused of anti-Semitism - which is factually completely false - although they are fundamentally opposed to genital mutilation, this behavior is itself anti-Semitic, because such politicians do not consider children of Jewish parents to be worthy of protection (mostly obviously due to the fear of the [[anti-Semitism club]]). This attitude is often justified by the fact that Germans would have no right to judge Jewish culture and tradition because of their German history, which further reinforces the anti-Semitic exclusion of children of Jewish parents from the all-encompassing understanding of human rights and makes such statements even worse. In addition, genital mutilation in children that is not medically indicated is played down and justified here as "culture" and "tradition", which also proves double standards, since no German politician is known who would also describe [[FGM]] in this way.
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The antisemitism contradiction can not only be found in the religion itself, but also in the actions of German politicians in particular. If they e.g. deny the own human and fundamental rights of children of Jewish parents, out of fear of being accused of antisemitism - which is factually completely false - although they are fundamentally opposed to genital mutilation, this behavior is itself antisemitic, because such politicians do not consider children of Jewish parents to be worthy of protection (mostly obviously due to the fear of the [[Antisemitism club]]). This attitude is often justified by the believe that Germans would have no right to judge Jewish culture and tradition because of their German history, which further reinforces the antisemitic exclusion of children of Jewish parents from the all-encompassing understanding of [[human rights]] and makes such statements even worse. In addition, genital mutilation in children that is not medically indicated is played down and justified here as "culture" and "tradition", which also proves double standards, since no German politician is known who would also describe [[FGM]] in this way.
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== Note on IntactiWiki's own behalf ==
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'''NO ANTISEMITISM:''' IntactiWiki has signed the '''[[Standing Against Antisemitism]]''' statement opposing [[antisemitism]] within the genital autonomy movement at [[Beyond the Bris]].
  
 
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* Rothenberg M. [https://pool.intactiwiki.org/images/Rothenberg.pdf Ending circumcision in the Jewish community?] Presented at The Second International Symposium on Circumcision, San Francisco, California, April 30-May 3, 1991.
 
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Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews.[1][2][3]

Every now and then, intactivists are generally assumed to be antisemitic, because they also engage against MGM on boys of Jewish parents. These allegations are generally unfounded, if only because the deliberate exclusion of the boys of Jewish parents in legal questions would be a group-specific special treatment, which in turn would have to be regarded as antisemitism, following the logics. If intactivists were to protect all children from genital mutilation that was not medically indicated, but omit the children of Jewish parents, they would have to be accused of antisemitism.

A uniform, generally binding definition of antisemitism doesn't seem to exist. There are different attempts at a definition. See below for a tiny selection of definitions.

Definitions of antisemitism

  • "Hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people."[4]
  • "hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group"[3]

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Plenum suggested the following working definition of antisemitism:

“ IHRA working definition of anti-Semitism
Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.
– International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Plenum[5]

History

Antisemitism has existed for at least 2,500 years.

Notably, the Book of Esther reports the case of Haman the Agagite who wanted to slay all Jews.[6] This occurred in the years 483-473 BCE.

The Spanish Inquisition (1478-1834) required Jews to either convert to Roman Catholicism or leave Spain.[7]

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.[8]

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.[9] 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. Circumcision of a boy born into a Jewish home, therefore, is an antisemitic act.[10]

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.

According to a White Paper published by the Danish Mosaic Religious Society, no Jew will deny an intact boy the right to his membership of the Jewish society:

“ You are born a Jew if you are born to a Jewish mother. In principle, there are no Jewish dogma, which means, among other things, that one cannot "deprive" a Jew of his identity as a Jew. There are Jews who do not abide by Jewish rules in any form whatsoever, and others who have cherry-picked among those rules and only adhere to the rules they want. This also applies to circumcision. It might be said this way: For most Jews it is crucial to be circumcised, but it is not essential to be circumcised to be a Jew.
– Danish Mosaic Religious Society (White Paper: om rituel omskærelse af drenge, page 14)[11]

If this statement is true, and there are no reasons to doubt it, Jewish males, for whom it is vital to be circumcised, can be circumcised as they turn of age, and they will still be valid members of the Jewish community.

Furthermore: In 2007, the WHO found that 30% of the world’s male population were circumcised. Those 30% were distributed like this

  • 69% Muslims
  • 0.8% Jews
  • 13% North Americans
  • 17.2% Others

Following these numbers, male Jews who are circumcised make up at most 0.8 % of the world's circumcised men (i.e. eight per thousand).[12] Therefore, it is totally improper to claim that opposing circumcision is an expression of antisemitism or neo-Nazism.

Opposition to non-medical circumcision of minors as a parental right is directed against the act regardless of the parents' religious affiliation, and not just against the at most 0.8% Jewish circumcisions.

Antisemitism contradiction

Conceptual antisemitism in Judaism

The German website zwangsbeschneidung.de sees an "antisemitism contradiction in the Jewish religion created by Circumcision":

“ Antisemitism is definitely the violation of the human rights of a Jew because he is a Jew, circumcision of the male child is a violation of human rights, Jewish circumcision is done because the child is a Jew, so Jewish circumcision is an antisemitic act.

The conclusion is that if circumcision is the foundation of the Jewish religion, the foundation of the Jewish religion is an antisemitic act.

§ 1631d BGB was created to enable Jewish circumcision. § 1631d BGB is therefore antisemitism by law. Antisemitism by law is fascist legislation.
– N.N. (www.zwangsbeschneidung.de)[13]

Antisemitism among (German) politicians

The antisemitism contradiction can not only be found in the religion itself, but also in the actions of German politicians in particular. If they e.g. deny the own human and fundamental rights of children of Jewish parents, out of fear of being accused of antisemitism - which is factually completely false - although they are fundamentally opposed to genital mutilation, this behavior is itself antisemitic, because such politicians do not consider children of Jewish parents to be worthy of protection (mostly obviously due to the fear of the Antisemitism club). This attitude is often justified by the believe that Germans would have no right to judge Jewish culture and tradition because of their German history, which further reinforces the antisemitic exclusion of children of Jewish parents from the all-encompassing understanding of human rights and makes such statements even worse. In addition, genital mutilation in children that is not medically indicated is played down and justified here as "culture" and "tradition", which also proves double standards, since no German politician is known who would also describe FGM in this way.

Note on IntactiWiki's own behalf

NO ANTISEMITISM: IntactiWiki has signed the Standing Against Antisemitism statement opposing antisemitism within the genital autonomy movement at Beyond the Bris.

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ REFweb Wikipedia article: Antisemitism. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  2. ↑ REFweb anti-Semitism, Oxford Dictionaries - English. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  3. ↑ a b REFweb anti-Semitism, Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  4. ↑ REFweb Anti-Semitism, English Definition, Lexico. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
  5. ↑ REFweb (26 May 2016). What is antisemitism? - Non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism, IHRA. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
  6. ↑ REFweb Esther Chapter 3, Bible Gateway. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  7. ↑ REFweb Wikipedia article: Spanish Inquisition. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
  8. ↑ REFweb Wikipedia article: The Holocaust. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
  9. ↑ REFdocument International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (official document) PDF, United Nations. (1967). Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ REFdocument White Paper: om rituel omskærelse af drenge PDF, mosaiske.dk. (2012). Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  12. ↑ REFweb (2007). Male circumcision: global trends and determinants of prevalence, safety and acceptability Icons-mini-file pdf.svg, WHO. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  13. ↑ REFweb (2016). Der durch die Beschneidung erzeugte Antisemitismuswiderspruch in der jüdischen Religion [Anti-Semitism Generated by Circumcision Contradiction in the Jewish Religion] (German). Retrieved 15 February 2022.
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