'Foreskin Man': Proof that anti-circumcision activists are anti-Semitic?

Promoters of a San Francisco circumcision ban push a comic book that pits a superhero against an evil rabbi named Monster Mohel

In the first issue of the comic "Foreskin Man" the presumably uncircumcised hero battles a villain - an image the Anti-Defamation League calls anti-Semitic.
(Image credit: Facebook/Foreskin Man)

The "intactivists" promoting a ban on circumcision in San Francisco are making headway. Their newest tool is a comic book about the exploits of an unusual superhero — Foreskin Man. But the comic is proving controversial, partly because one of the villains is a sneering rabbi named Monster Mohel. (See the image below.) Is this just a dab of humor, or a transparent attack on Jews?

This is blatantly anti-Semitic: The case against circumcision can be made "without depicting a scary rabbi named Monster Mohel slavering over a naked infant," says J.E. Dyer at Hot Air. Pitting an Aryan-looking anti-circumcision hero against "a scary rabbi named Monster Mohel" makes it clear that these nuts see "the Judaic religious view of circumcision as evil and repulsive." If that's not anti-Semitism, what is?

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