“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.”

Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish blog

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: August 22, 2025

Commentary

Lessons from the Haganah

by Doris Wise Montrose on August 22, 2025

Lessons from the Haganah Self-Defense Must Be Organized After the 1920, 1921, and 1929 riots, Jews realized scattered, individual defense wasn’t enough. The Haganah grew into a disciplined underground force because survival required coordination, planning, and readiness. Don’t Wait for Permission The British often restricted Jews from carrying arms, leaving communities vulnerable. The Haganah secretly

Commentary

History That Warns

by Doris Wise Montrose on August 22, 2025

History That Warns This week in Jewish history: In 1929—this weekend—Jewish communities across Mandatory Palestine were assaulted, sparking a new era of self-defense through the Haganah. Remember: defense isn’t just reaction—it’s preservation.During the 1929 Palestine riots, Arab mobs attacked Jewish communities across Mandatory Palestine, leading to massacres in cities such as Hebron and Safed. This

Second Amendment

ATF says concealed carry ‘puts everyone involved at risk’

by Doris Wise Montrose on August 22, 2025

Has the ATF solved all the problems with the A and T? The millions of law-abiding Americans who have chosen to carry a concealed firearm are putting “everyone involved at risk,” the ATF announced this week in a post on X. “Take a look into our world. This is a scenario @ATFWasington frequently faces when combatting

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