Antisemitism: Difference between revisions

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 have 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.

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.

== Definitions of anti-Semitism ==

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

== Opposing circumcision on minors isn't anti-Semitic ==

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.

}}</ref> Therefore, it is totally flawed to claim that opposing circumcision is an expression of anti-Semitism or neo-Nazism.

== Anti-Semitism contradiction ==

=== Conceptual anti-Semitism in Judaism ===

The German website ''zwangsbeschneidung.de'' sees an "anti-Semitism contradiction in the Jewish religion created by [[Circumcision]]":

  |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>

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>

[[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.

=== Anti-Semitism among (German) politicians ===

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 believe 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.

'''NO ANTISEMITISM:''' IntactiWiki has signed the '''[https://www.beyondthebris.com/standing-against-antisemitism/ Standing Against Antisemitism]''' statement opposing anti-Semitism within the genital autonomy movement at [[Beyond the Bris]].

* [[Anti-Semitism club]]