“We can either live in a paranoid politically correct world frantically trying not to offend the Hitlers and Mohammeds, and blaming their victims when they kill, or we can be free men and women who have chosen to take the power to defend our rights into our own hands.

While a thousand organizations use the Holocaust as a platform for speeches about tolerance, Children Of Jewish Holocaust Survivors [Jews Can Shoot] is conducting firearms training… Freedom is not defended with empty idealism easily perverted into appeasement of evil, but with the force of arms.”

All too many of the other great tragedies of history - Stalin's atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few - were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece... If a few hundred Jewish fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars.

Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Silveira v. Lockyer, 2003

Habah l'hargecha hashkem l'hargo -- "If someone is coming to kill you, rise against him and kill him first."

Day: April 23, 2025

Commentary

Never again means knowing when it starts—with words

by Doris Wise Montrose on April 23, 2025

Tonight begins Yom HaShoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day. We remember the six million Jews murdered for being Jews. We remember the hatred. The propaganda. The dehumanization. We remember what happens when a people are declared spiritually invalid. When their faith is deemed “insufficient,” their covenant erased, their identity rewritten. I’m not an observant Jew –

Commentary

Yom HaShoah: Never Again Is Now

by Doris Wise Montrose on April 23, 2025

Yom HaShoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day. A day to remember the six million Jews murdered simply because they were Jewish. This year, remembrance comes with burning clarity. On October 7, 2023, we witnessed the unthinkable again. 1,200 Jews were massacred — in their homes, on the roads, at a music festival. Babies murdered. Families were

"All too many of the other great tragedies of history—Stalin’s atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few—were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided or mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece, as the Militia Act required here. ... If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars." — Silveira v Lockyer, (9th Cir. 2003) (Kozinski, J. dissenting.)