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A uniform, generally binding definition of anti-Semitism doesn't seem to exist. There are different attempts at a definition.
== 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.
According to a White Paper published by the Danish Mosaic Religious Society, no Jew will deny an uncircumcised boy the right to his membership of the Jewish society:
{{Citation
|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>
|Author=Danish Mosaic Religious Society
|Source=White Paper: om rituel omskærelse af drenge, page 14
|ref=<ref>{{REFdocument
|title=White Paper: om rituel omskærelse af drenge
|url=https://www.ft.dk/samling/20111/almdel/suu/bilag/422/1147879.pdf
|publisher=mosaiske.dk
|format=PDF
|date=2012
|accessdate=2020-03-14
}}</ref>
}}
If this statement is true, and we have no reasons to doubt it, Jewish boys 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).<ref>{{REFweb
|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
|publisher=WHO
|date=2007
|page=7
|format=PDF
|accessdate=2020-03-14
}}</ref> Therefore, it is totally flawed to claim that opposing circumcision is an expression of anti-Semitism 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.
== Anti-Semitism contradiction ==