The latter is a kind of an amusing statement - but there's an irony there, which was clearly lost on the priest - that Jesus couldn't have taken a decision about his own circumcision at the age of 8 days. And this is really the point of the whole debate. It's not about circumcision as such, as a medical procedure - but about ritual, forced circumcision.
Recently a very prominent rabbi, Nathan Lopes Cardozo, has made a novel assertion in the debate (writing in Times of Israel):
As Spinoza, who had left all Jewishness, so correctly observed, circumcision is the secret to the miracle of Jewish survival. What those Jews who oppose circumcision should never forget is that the attempt to outlaw this rite may not just make Jewish life impossible, but would probably end all Jewish existence. In fact, it is a call to end the State of Israel as the national homeland of the Jewish people.Cardozo's piece is so egregious, it deserves its own particular focus and analysis, which I will provide here. But before I go further into the intricacies of Cardozo's piece, I would just like to accentuate that Cardozo is an Orthodox rabbi of considerable international clout. UK Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has said that "Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo has emerged as one of the most thoughtful voices in contemporary Judaism. He is a man of deep faith and wide intellectual horizons, unafraid to confront the challenges of the age with the quiet confidence of one who is attuned to the music of eternity."
Comment: The war on information continues in a big way. Twitter, Facebook and Google/ Youtube are now censoring many conservative news outlets. Given roughly half of any given population is conservative, this may not end in the way they hope. People do not just abandon their lifelong views just because tech giants have decided what they want people to think. See also: Conservative media under attack: Here are some of the prominent conservative websites who are victims of the tech giant purge list