{"id":958,"date":"2014-11-10T23:22:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T23:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/?p=958"},"modified":"2014-11-10T23:53:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T23:53:19","slug":"the-jewish-doctor-campaigning-against-circumcision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/news\/the-jewish-doctor-campaigning-against-circumcision\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jewish doctor campaigning against circumcision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.west-info.eu\/the-jewish-doctor-campaigning-against-circumcision\/%20 \" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.west-info.eu\/the-jewish-doctor-campaigning-against-circumcision\/\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"dettagli\">by Ivano Abbadessa &#8211; 2014.11.07 | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.west-info.eu\/the-jewish-doctor-campaigning-against-circumcision\/print\/\" rel=\"NOFOLLOW\">Print<\/a> | <a title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/www.west-info.eu\/the-jewish-doctor-campaigning-against-circumcision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"NOFOLLOW\"> Share on Facebook<\/a> | <a title=\"Share on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=The%20Jewish%20doctor%20campaigning%20against%20circumcision%20http:\/\/www.west-info.eu\/?p=118412\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"NOFOLLOW\"> Share on Twitter<\/a> | <a class=\"a2a_dd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.west-info.eu\/the-jewish-doctor-campaigning-against-circumcision\/\">Send by Email<\/a> |<\/p>\n<div id=\"addhere\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"taglia-single\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"foto\" src=\"http:\/\/www.west-info.eu\/files\/ebrei.jpg\" alt=\"Image: The Jewish doctor campaigning against circumcision\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/div>\n<div id=\"boxparagraph\" class=\"paragraph\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Male circumcision should be banned, just as female genital mutilation is prohibited.<\/strong>\u00a0 Jewish doctor Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin tells West why he is fighting this ancient Jewish practice, which is also standard practice in Islam, and widespread in the United States. He says: \u201cMale circumcision is a violation of the bodily integrity of minors, exactly like female circumcision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Zoossmann-Diskin, who is also founder of the Israeli association, Ben Shalem, adds<\/strong>: \u00a0\u201cActually, some\u00a0forms of female circumcision including the most common one, the sunna, which entails cutting the clitoral prepuce, are less severe than the widely spread form of male circumcision.\u201d However, in many societies, male genitals are not protected and are treated as if they don\u2019t belong to the child but to the parents and their community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Zoosmann-Diskin states that \u201cwe, the children born to Jewish and Muslim parents<\/strong>, have exactly the same rights as children born to Christian parents. If our parents refuse to understand this simple basic principle of human rights, then Europe has to intervene and protect us within its borders.\u201d It could do this by granting asylum to those who are escaping circumcision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And yet, the World Health Organisation recently took the view that \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.west-info.eu\/circumcision-can-reduce-hiv-transmission-bacteria-anaerobic-men-microbes-genital-peni\/\" target=\"_blank\">circumcision could help decrease the risk of HIV infection<\/a>.<\/strong> Dr Zoossmann-Diskin believes this is just an ideological position backed \u201cby improper cultural (USA) and religious motives\u201d. He continues: \u201cYou don\u2019t fight a disease by amputating healthy organs, even in cases, in which this amputation assures a great reduction in risk like in breast cancer.\u201d Further evidence of the shaky health grounds behind the WHO\u2019s position is that while the WHO recommends circumcision for men, it doesn\u2019t do so for women, \u201cdespite the fact that the corresponding female tissue (the clitoral prepuce\u00a0and labia minora) contain the same cells that facilitate the entry of the HIV virus\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The strong reaction from Jews and Muslims<\/strong> \u201cshould not stop Europe acting to protect children from a serious violation of their physical integrity\u201d. On the contrary, \u201call European countries should be encouraged to enforce the ban on male genital mutilation\u201d. Dr Zoossmann-Diskin says that while the debate continues, \u201cthe screams, suffering and life-long damage of victims are ignored by those who should be protecting them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.west-info.eu\/the-jewish-doctor-campaigning-against-circumcision\/\u00a0\u00a0 by Ivano Abbadessa &#8211; 2014.11.07 | Print | Share on Facebook | Share on Twitter | Send by Email | &nbsp; Male circumcision should be banned, just as female genital mutilation is prohibited.\u00a0 Jewish doctor Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin tells West&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,10],"tags":[8,14,18],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-jewish-intactivism","category-news","tag-circumcision","tag-jewish","tag-male"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/circinfosite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}