By Mike Buchanan: [Note added 27 May: This post is being republished as a reminder. It’s a scandal that the police / CPS are failing to bring prosecutions against those who perpetrate the crime of MGM, often making considerable money in the process. The police report into the Home Office. The Home Secretary is Theresa May MP, who once infamously sported a ‘This is what a feminist looks like’ T-shirt. Please show your support for male babies, infants, and children, by supporting us next Wednesday. Thank you. ]Many proponents of MGM support it partly on the grounds of alleged potential or real health benefits, to men and/or their sexual partners. Does science support that position? For the answer, we refer you to a paper co-authored by Brian D Earp, a scientist and ethicist at the University of Oxford – here.
Two more anti-MGM protests will take place before the London Conference. One of the speakers at the conference will be the American researcher Tim Hammond, who’ll be giving a new talk on the Global Survey of Circumcision Harm.
Our first anti-MGM protest was outside the Conservative party conference (October 2015), the second in Parliament Square on International Men’s Day (November 2015).
The third (March 2016) was the largest anti-MGM protest ever held in the UK, outside the Thornhill Clinic, Luton – the largest private circumcision clinic in the UK. Our blog piece on the matter is here, a video (9:19) of the event here.
Last week we staged a highly successful protest in Golders Green. We’ll shortly be posting videos and still photographs from that protest, along with some commentary. One of the leaflets we handed out was designed by the people behind a website with no connection to this one, Jews Against Circumcision. From the website:
We are a group of educated and enlightened Jews who realize that the barbaric, primitive, torturous, and mutilating practice of circumcision has no place in modern Judaism.Our next protest will be over 1pm – 6pm on Wednesday 1 June, outside the Home Office – 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF – because the Home Office is responsible for the police, and the police (acting with the CPS) aren’t bringing prosecutions against the people carrying out the criminal offence of MGM. In the Home Office response to our FOI request last year, the department didn’t deny MGM is illegal, but evaded the question of why it doesn’t prosecute the criminals carrying out the procedure. A map of the area is here.
Rabbi Moses Maimonides himself acknowledged that circumcision is done to desensitize the penis and curb masturbation.
Jews are some of the smartest people in the world. We are 1/3rd of 1% of the population, yet we hold 33% of Nobel prizes. We are smart enough to understand that mutilating a little boys’ penis is not an acceptable practice in modern times.
The final protest before the conference will be over 1pm – 6pm on Wednesday 15 June, outside the Head Office of the NSPCC – Weston House, 42 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3NH. A map of the area is here. An email exchange in our possession proves that the NSPCC couldn’t care less about this unnecessary, cruel, and illegal procedure being inflicted on so many male minors in the UK every year.
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I applaud your excellent work against MGM. Though I generally applaud the Jewish statement, I will have to be excused by my fellows here for not being impressed by people who give themselves awards and then use that slight of hand to claim to be 'some of the smartest people in the world'. Bravo Jews against circumcision, but why don't you go all the way and cut all the usual undeserved self-aggrandizing crap, it would have been more honest to say, 'Jews are some of the greatest warmongers and Palestinian slaughterers in the world', but best of all to have simply stuck to the fucking point.
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