Bruchim Founder Promoted Racial Slur-Using Pro-Circumcision Organization

Elyihau Ungar-Sargon promoted Circumcision Choice.

Bruchim founder Elyihau Ungar-Sargon promoted the pro-circumcision anti-intactivist organization Circumcision Choice in order to accuse intactivists of antisemitism.

In an article on Dazed Digital titled "How Intactivist's Anti-Circumcision Movement Was Co-opted By The Alt-Right," Ungar-Sargon shared a Facebook page called "Antisemitism in Intactivism," which is associated with Circumcision Choice. The organization Circumcision Choice has engaged in counter-protests against intactivist events, published critical articles targeting prominent intactivist figures and concepts, and faced allegations of harassment.

Circumcision Choice and its affiliated page, Antisemitism in Intactivism, targeted filmmaker and author Brendon Marotta after he wrote that "Jewish men have the right to share their feelings against circumcision." In response to Marotta’s statement of support for Jewish men, Circumcision Choice accused Marotta of "GOYSPLAINING" in all capital letters. “Goy” is a racial slur for non-Jewish people.

When Marotta responded by writing an article asking Jewish people to “avoid racial slurs,” Circumcision Choice doubled down on their actions by using the term again in an article titled “Marotta misleads and goysplains in classic case of projection.” In the article, they defended the term “GOYSPLAINING” by claiming that it was not a racial slur, but a combination of a term for a racial group (“goy”) and a derogatory term for the behavior of an entire group (“mansplaining”).

Circumcision Choice has favorably cited hit pieces against Marotta by Bruchim, Beyond the Bris, and individuals associated with them. Marotta has suggested that Bruchim’s association with Circumcision Choice discredits their attacks on the intactivist movement. “How am I supposed to take Jewish claims about ‘antisemitism’ seriously when those they cite as experts on antiracism target me with racial slurs?” Marotta writes. “This kind of abuse is wrong.”

Bruchim and Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon have not responded to Marotta’s criticisms or disavowed Circumcision Choice and their use of racial slurs.