Andrew Gross Published March 21, 2022 Updated August 17, 2022 Last week Brendon Marotta published "A Jewish Guide To Talking To Circumcision Survivors," a blog post in which he explained to the Jewish community how to talk to angry intactivists. Apparently the Gentile producer of an anti-circumcision documentary thinks that he’s in a position to lecture Jews. The entire post is so absurd, it's almost comical. Marotta provides a textbook example of projection, in which he proj

Published August 22, 2020 Updated March 28, 2021 Ulf Dunkel, a 57 year-old German salesman, has created and maintained a Wikipedia-style website for intactivists. While IntactWiki has a similar style as the popular Wikipedia website, Dunkel maintains total control over the website. Typical articles include esoteric and often cherry-picked facts with Dunkel's personal opinions woven into the entries. ACCUSATIONS AGAINST CIRCUMCISION CHOICE Dunkel recently added an article titl

August 14, 2019 A 23 year-old Ohio mother created The Bitchy Intactivist page to post derisive anti-circumcision memes that she would be too ashamed to show to her extended family on her own Facebook page. Last week she accused the admins of this website of various sins. Most of these accusations are simply projection. Stalks and bullies intactivists all day long. Actually intactivists are the ones who commit stalking and bullying 24/7. They post the names of and links to par

January 3, 2018 Projection is a psychological defense mechanism in which a person projects her own thoughts, motivations, or actions on others. This technique allows one to avoid her own feelings of guilt and blame. [1] We’ve found that many in the anti-circumcision movement use projection to avoid looking at their own bad behavior. They blindly repeat intacto-facts like "16 functions" and "117 deaths," and accuse others of being uninformed. They'll say, "We aren't obsessed