Anti-Zionist, Anti-Israel, Anti-Circumcision Moonbat Gets Sacked from Jewish Board of Deputies
Garth will soon get kicked off the Elders
LONDON – A London synagogue representative on the Board of Deputies of British Jews has been removed from her position after advocating a ban on circumcision.
The New West End Synagogue, a modern-Orthodox [correction: New West End is a Reform congregation] synagogue in west London, rescinded Rebecca Steinfeld’s position as the Under-35 Observer on the Board of Deputies, after referring to circumcision as “male genital mutilation” in an article in the Guardian last week.
“If we oppose female genital mutilation, has the time not come for us also to oppose male-genital mutilation?” she asked in the article.
Under-35 observers were introduced by the Board two years ago in order to encourage younger people to get involved in community politics.
In a letter to the community representative organization’s chief executive, Jon Benjamin, the synagogue’s main Board Representative Dori Schmetterling said: “Further to our earlier discussions, I confirm that the Executive of the Board of Management of the New West End Synagogue has decided that Rebecca Steinfeld’s position as the Under-35 Observer at the Board of Deputies is rescinded, effective immediately.
“This means that if she appears at this Sunday’s [Board of Deputies] meeting, she is not our representative in any form,” he added.
A student at Oxford University, Steinfeld is member of the anti-Israel group Jews for Justice for Palestinians.
Her doctoral thesis looks at whether Israel had a fertility policy in order to fulfill its demographic need from the establishment of the state until today.
In her research she claims that “Israel has established and maintained an ethnically selective pro-nationalist policy that seeks to simultaneously encourage a higher Jewish birth-rate and a lower non-Jewish one – specifically Palestinian-Arab – with the aim of ensuring a Jewish majority through internal population growth.” Her supervisor is the anti-Zionist British/Israeli historian Prof. Avi Shlaim. Steinfeld said she was “disappointed” by the decision.
