The Center Party has decided to work to prohibit the circumcision of boys in Sweden. Now the Jewish Central Council is responding. - We see it as a mark against the Jewish group in Sweden, says Council President Aron Verständig.

The Center Meeting has decided that the Center Party should work to prohibit the circumcision of boys, which is not done for medical reasons, in Sweden. The proposal has been rejected by the party leadership but has been pushed through anyway.

"I am very surprised and very upset," says Aron Verständig, chairman of the Jewish Central Council in Sweden and continues:

- I wish that those who pushed through this would take the time to get acquainted with the role of circumcision in Judaism.

Often anti-Semitic reasons, the chairman believes

Verstand points out that the resistance to male circumcision does not come from the circumcised themselves.

"Often it is for anti-Semitic or Islamophobic reasons that you do not want to see circumcision in Sweden," he says.

Aron Verständig does not believe that the proposal will lead to any legislation, but that if it did, it could lead to several Jewish families leaving the country.

- This is a very serious restriction on religious freedom. We see it as a mark against the Jewish group in Sweden.