To whom it may concern: Male circumcision in Germany
I had been looking forward to attending the World Congress in Psychiatric Genetics later this year. I had been looking forward to presenting the results of my research investigating genetic factors contributing to mental illness and to explaining the new methodologies I have been developing which could assist others in the study of mental illness, dementia and physical illnesses with a genetic basis. I had been looking forward to hearing at first hand the latest advances in the field, which with recent technological advances is entering a particularly exciting phase. Today, I'm wondering whether I should be going at all. I'm wondering how I can even consider setting foot in a country which has just decided to ban the circumcision of male children for religious reasons. And then to have what we would call the chutzpah to claim that this is not antisemitic. It is absolutely antisemitic to fail to acknowledge the significance of circumcision as having a central place in Jewish id