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'''Inon Schenker''' is head of Israeli group [[Operation Abraham]],<!-- <ref name="NHPC">{{REFcontribution |contribution=Red Eye ownz!REFconference
|url=http://www.2009nhpc.org/search_abstract.asp?fid=224
|title=Red Eye ownz!
|place=Atlanta, Georgia
|pages=
|datedatefrom=2009-08-23 to |dateto=2009-08-26
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}}</ref>--> whose sole purpose is to promote circumcision any which way it can.<ref name="Jewish Daily">{{REFnews
|last=Beckerman
|first=Gal
|publisher=The Jewish Daily Forward
|quote=
|date=September 2009-09-09, 2009
|accessdate=
}}</ref> At the 2009 National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta, Schenker proposed lobbying the AAP on the issue of infant circumcision in his presentation abstract and at the conference itself.<ref>{{REFweb
|publisher=
|work=
|date=September 2009-09-10, 2009
|accessdate=
}}</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 Opration Abraham, argues Schenker, were led by "ignorance or cruelty or antisemitism."