The San Francisco group attempting to make infant circumcision a misdemeanor crime has published a comic strip the ADL and others are calling anti-Semitic. Titled "Foreskin Man," the comic pits a blond hair, blue eyed superhero (Foreskin Man, pictured below) against characters such as "Dr. Mutilator," "Mohel Man" (pictured right) and a gun-wielding Orthodox Jewish man named Jorah.
The comic book was created by Matthew Hess, the president of the Male Genital Mutilation Bill group and one of the leaders of the "intactivists," the anti-circumcision group whose measure will be on the November ballot. As mentioned in an earlier post, if passed the ballot would make circumcisions a misdemeanor punishable by a $1,000 fine and up to one year in prison in San Francisco.
You can view a list of all the characters on the website for "Foreskin Man," though be forewarned that the site is very slow to load. Clicking on an image will bring you to a brief bio for each character, such as this one for Monster Mohel:
"Nothing excits Monter Mohel more than cutting into the penile flesh of an eight-day-old infant boy. And after the glorified brit milah is complete, the delicious metzitzah b'peh provides the icing on the cake.
Intactivists have been pressuring Monster Mohel to retire, but that will never happen. They will have to pry the scissors from his cold, dead hand."
Hess says his comic is not anti-Semitic, just "pro-human rights," but as Tablet writer Marc Tracy writes :
"If your beef is with circumcision, then why bring the metzitzah b'peh* - a far less commonly practiced ritual, in which the mohel sucks blood from the wound - into it? Why imply that the mohel sucks the blood and cuts the foreskin for his own sensual pleasure ("nothing excites," "delicious ... icing on the cake")? Also, those fingernails? Really?"
The ADL compares the comic book's imagery to blood-libel, saying in a statement:
"This is a sensitive, serious issue where good people can disagree and which the Jewish community feels is an assault on its values and traditions going back thousands of years and centered in the Hebrew Bible...The comic book portrays mohels - those specially trained to perform the traditional Jewish circumcision ceremony - as rapacious, bloodthirsty and bent on harming children. Some of the imagery calls to mind age-old anti-Semitic canards such as the blood libel, the accusation that Jews ritually murder Christian children. Another comic in the series also calls up more subtle anti-Jewish themes, such as when a character complains that the 'pro-circumcision lobby' has 'all of the well-connected doctors and lawyers.'"
What do you think about the Foreskin Man comic series?
Images via Foreskin Man website
ADL Says Anti-Circumcision Comic Book Offends With 'Grotesque' Anti-Semitic Imagery [ADL]
Blood Libel for the 21st Century? [New Voices]
* As New Voices notes, the metzizah b'peh is "a controversial form of Circumcision, where the Mohel sucks the blood out, in order to stop excess bleeding or infection, [it] is not a common practice amongst Jews today or for a very long time."
To learn more about the brit milah in Judaism, check out: What Is Brit Milah?
h ow can they pass a law in san Fransisco tp out law circumsion that is a violation of the constatuion, we have freedom of religion in this country, and circumsion is part of our religions believes. it goes against the costution to pass a law that regulates only one religion. i do believe that the muslems also circumsize their male babies as well. they claim that the circumsion scars a boy baby mentaly for life, but the babies are so young that they can’t remember what happens to them from onei think its just another way to regulate religion, and is very anti-semetic. second to the next. all of the males i have talked to say that they can’t even re,member they circomsion. they were to young.
Don’t Moslems get circumcised too?
Circumcision is a rite of passage in Judaism, in Islam, in various local African cultures and many other societies. It is quite legitimate to be against it for various reasons but being against it because it is “Jewish” shades over into a profoundly pathological fringe element.
One thing I don’t doubt is that people will protest the comic, that they will be disgusted by it and will speak out. San Francisco is a very open city with a very sophisticated citizenry and it insults the citizens of that city. It has been multicultural for a long time and became so decades before any other part of the country did. It tolerates a huge gay life. More than any other place, I expect people peddling that dog feces to be spat on and rejected.
The crudeness of it all is testament to the mindset of the perpetrators. While disgusting, it is not frightening — at least not for me.
Left-wing think and reasoning is just another way of saying mental disorder! Such as: “one train of thought is right, permissible and allowed: ours only” or put another way: “it’s our way, or the highway!” The Left endlessly regurgitates this foul “PC acceptance and tolerance?” Hypocritical? I’d say so. I have been affiliated with Michigan State University for 25 years and from firsthand experience i relate that the Lefties are so polarized, judgemental and unaccepting that they have totally isolated myself and much of the community. In turn, the Leftist SF literary attack via “Foreskin Man” is nothing less than the same intolerant, caustic viciousness that i receive on a weekly basis at said Left-leaning institution just for being Jewish. Persons of this low caste are nothing less than Fascist-Nazis. Our recourse is but one: fight them and do not relent! Most are weak-kneed cowards and buckle at very little verbal rebuff. Remain steadfast and G-dspeed!
I don’t get it…… It is perfectly alright to kill unborn babies; that is a person’s right. However, getting a baby circumcised is wrong and barbaric? I certainly don’t remember getting circumcised. I wonder if all those babies remember getting killed in the name of privacy and choice?
Patricia.
Muslims make brith-mila after boy’s 13 years old. The same way like Avrohom made it to his older son Ismael, the son of Ktura. But Torah emphasizes “Itzhok is only and single son of Avrohom”. Why? First, because Sarah only was a legal wife to Avrohom. Accordingly to the Code Of Hammurappy only the legal sons had the legal rights to inherit. Even now in all jurisdictions of the World that law is recognized. Then, only Sarah’s sons could be the legal sons of Avrohom. Since there wans not other sons by Sarah, so Itzhak (in American non-Jewish spelling – Isaak) is only son of Avrohom and Sarah. Avrohom was very strong man. He did have much more then one female partner. After Sarah past away Avrohom got the father of the nations (Av- father; am- nations). Avrohom gave the roots to 70 major nations with the different female partners. Nobody of them pretend for the Avrohom’s major heritage, but only Ismaelyts. All pretensions of Ismael are illegal. Mail could have multiple contacts with the different females, but no body can charge him (unless he is the Hollywood celebrity or a multimillioner). In middle East Hollywood laws and preferences have no power.