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# Israel's Vice Prime Minister Silvan Schalom said the banning of religious [[circumcision]] would mean "Jews out!". He also equates all critics of [[circumcision]] with Nazis, thereby pressuring policymakers massively.<ref>http://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/israels-vize-premier-silvan-schalom-beschneidungsverbot-heisst-juden-raus_aid_811026.html</ref>
# Israel's Interior Minister Eli Jishai, head of the strictly religious Shas party, called on Chancellor Merkel to immediately end the criminalisation of [[circumcision]]. "Jews in Germany should not be forced to have to choose between compliance with national or divine laws." He assumed all who work for genital self-determination of boys to confront anti-Semitism against the Jewish religion and also called to the fact that Jews in Germany should not stop at national laws.<ref>http://diepresse.com/home/panorama/religion/1282236/Beschneidung_Ruf-nach-MerkelMachtwort-aus-Israel</ref>
# Israel's President Schimon Peres called Federal President Gauck to promote [[circumcision]] for religious reasons. "The [[Brit Milah]] ([[circumcision]]) is a [[Jewish circumcision|Jewish ritual]]. Since thousands of years, it is central to Jewish identity and makes a Jew." This way he imputed that all critics of [[circumcision]] would not accept to exhibit a Jewish religious tradition over national law, due to their anti-Semitism.<ref>http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article108769707/Beschneidungsdebatte-Peres-bittet-Gauck-um-Hilfe.html</ref>
# Charlotte Knoblauch, former President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, asked very provocative: "Do you want us Jews yet?" and therefore insinuates that all [[circumcision]] critics want Jews to leave Germany. This way she set politicians massively under pressure.<ref>http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/beschneidungen-in-deutschland-wollt-ihr-uns-juden-noch-1.1459038</ref>
# The Berlin rabby Yitzhak Ehrenberg said in an N24 interview on October 5, 2012 to Michel Friedman, [[circumcision]] critics were primitive, because they believe that they came from the trees of the jungles (monkeys). And because they were all atheists, they are automatically antireligious for him and therefore anti-Semitic.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RSBYJib90g</ref>