At First Things, Robert P. George encourages Christians to be “particularly outspoken in defending the rights of Jews and the Jewish people” in light of a recent German court decision that ruled circumcision inflicts bodily harm, and is therefore a punishable offense. According to George, “to prohibit [circumcision] is, in effect, to forbid Jews from being Jews.” George calls the ruling “an outrageous assault on the religious liberty and the rights of conscience of Jews” and other religious communities that practice circumcision.