“German Court Declares Judaism A Crime,” writes Walter Russel Mead: he calls the decision by the Cologne court to ban circumcision “the single most anti-Semitic state action taken anywhere in the west since 1945”. More here.
“Jews and Muslims Unite to Fight Germany for Basic Human Freedom,” Russell Mead continues. He writes that the ban on circumcision is reminiscent of mediaval Christian antisemitism: ” ... the majority had one ethical framework, Jews had another, the majority interpreted the differences as ‘evil’ and went to work, making it impossible for Jews to live normal Jewish lives in the name of enforcing ‘universal’ moral values.” More here.