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}}</ref> In an act of cynicism, or in just plain ignorance, Schenker claims a debate on "the benefits of circumcision" has yet to occur in the [[United States]], and he pretends to want to start one.<ref name="Jewish Daily"/> He further tries to argue that Operation Abraham's motives have nothing to do with [[Judaism]], despite the organization's obvious name. Opponents to Operation Abraham, argues Schenker, were led by "ignorance or cruelty or antisemitism."

|Text=At one of the last sessions, the speaker from "Operation Abraham," an [[Israel]]-based group that apparently hopes to be engaged to assist the U.S. in circumcising black and Hispanic males, put a photo of an [[intact]] male up on the screen. The figure of an elephant had been drawn around the penis so that the intact penis looked like an elephant's trunk. The words "Yes! A circumcision please!" had been added to the photo. I remonstrated loudly until this smear against [[intact ]] males was taken down. I then promptly left the session. I am still awaiting a deserved, written, direct apology from Dr. [[Peter Kilmarx]], Chief of the Epidemiology Branch of the Division of [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]] Prevention of the CDC, who was in attendance and from whom I demanded an apology.

|first=BessellBessel A. |init=BBA |author-link=Bessel van der Kolk

September 2021 saw the publication of ==Circumcision does not prevent HIV infection===== Population-based studies ==={{Population-based studies}} ===Two African surveys===The previously reported studies were from developed Western nations. Now we have information from Sub_Saharan Africa. French scientist [[Michel Garenne]], Ph.D. has published two huge population studies on reports in 2022 comparing the relationship incidence of [[circumcisionHIV]] infection in [[circumcised]] and HIV infection:[[intact]] men.

# Mayan et al. (2021) carried out In his first report, Garenne presented the findings from a massive empirical study in Lesotho, the enclave in South Africa. He reported: <blockquote>In couple studies, the effect of circumcision and VMMC on HIV was not significant, with similar transmission from female to male and male to female. The study questions the male population amount of the province effort and money spent on VMMC in Lesotho.<ref name="garenne2022A">{{REFjournal |last=Garenne |first=Michel |init=M |author-link=Michel Garenne |title=Changing relationships between HIV prevalence and circumcision in Lesotho |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35373731/ |date=2022-04-04 |journal=J Biosoc Sci |volume=online ahead of Ontarioprint |pages=1-16 |DOI=10.1017/S0021932022000153 |pubmedID=35373731 |accessdate=2022-11-06}}</ref> </blockquote>  In his second report, [[Canada]] Garenne (2022) presented information from six Sub-Saharan African nations (569Eswatini,950 males)Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, of whom 203Zambia,588 (35Zimbabwe).7%) were He reported: <blockquote> "Results matched earlier observations made in South Africa that [[circumcised]] between 1991 and 2017. The study concluded that circumcision status is not related to risk [[intact]] men had similar levels of HIV infection."<ref name="mayan2021garenne2022B">{{REFjournal |last=MayanGarenne |first=MadhurMichael

|title=Circumcision Age-incidence and Risk prevalence of HIV Among Males From Ontario, Canadaamong intact and circumcised men: an analysis of PHIA surveys in Southern Africa |trans-title= |language= |journal=J UrolBiosoc Sci |location= |date=20212022-10-0926 |season= |volume= |issue= |article= |page= |pages=1-2313 |url=https://www.auajournalscambridge.org/doicore/journals/journal-of-biosocial-science/article/pdfabs/10.1097ageincidence-and-prevalence-of-hiv-among-intact-and-circumcised-men-an-analysis-of-phia-surveys-in-southern-africa/JU.0000000000002234CAA7E7BD5A9844F41C6B7CC3573B9E50 |archived= |quote=We found that circumcision was not independently associated with the risk of acquiring HIV among men from Ontario, Canada. |pubmedID=3455159336286328 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.10971017/JU.0000000000002234S0021932022000414 |accessdate=2022-0711-1606}}</ref># [[Morten Frisch]] & Jacob Simonsen (2021) carried out a large scale empirical population study in [[Denmark]] of 855,654 males regarding the alleged value of male circumcision in preventing HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in men. They found that [[circumcised]] men have a higher rate of STI and HIV infection overall than [[intact]] men.<ref name="frisch2021"/blockquote>{{FrischM SimonsenJ 2021SEEALSO}}</ref> No association between lack of circumcision and risk of HIV infection was found by either study.* [[Israel]]