“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: November 14, 2025

Commentary

Dear Jews, it’s time for Tikkun Olam 2.0.

by Doris Wise Montrose on November 14, 2025

In this otherwise excellent and important article, which argues that the real lesson of the Holocaust is not just to remember but to act, defend, deter, and strengthen, the author comes right up to the line but never crosses it. He talks about vigilance, about self-protection, even about physical training like Krav Maga, but he

Commentary

This Day in Jewish History: November 10, 1975 – When the UN Declared Zionism Was Racism

by Doris Wise Montrose on November 14, 2025

This Day in Jewish History: November 10, 1975 – When the UN Declared Zionism Was Racism On November 10, 1975, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 3379, a decision that sent shockwaves through the Jewish world. The resolution declared bluntly: “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.” The vote tally was 72

"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.)