“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."

Commentary

Following Sydney massacre, US Jewish security groups reiterate guidelines

by Doris Wise Montrose on December 16, 2025

‘After the deadly shooting attack, Israel’s National Security Council warned that “past experience shows there is concern about copycat actions by supporters of terrorism who may be inspired by the event.”
The travel warning urged Israelis abroad to avoid unsecured mass gatherings, including at synagogues, Chabad houses, and Hanukkah parties.’
In simple terms: It’s hard to be a light unto the world if you’re dead.

the first night of Hanukkah on December 7, 2023, in New York City. (David Delgado/Getty Images/AFP)

US Jewish security groups release guidelines for Hanukkah events after the massacre at a Hanukkah event today in Sydney, Australia.

The Secure Community Network, the Community Security Initiative, and the Community Security Service — three leading Jewish community groups in the US — issue a set of recommendations, including:

Coordinating Hanukkah events with local law enforcement and security professionals; extending the security perimeter for events as far away from gatherings as possible; only allowing identifiable and pre-screened invitees into events, and not sending out mass invitations to the public; requiring registration and verification for all entrants; only providing event details, such as time and location, after invitees have registered; implementing access control, such as locked doors and security at entrances, for all events; reporting any suspicious activity; and adding armed on-duty or off-duty law enforcement, private security, and volunteer teams for additional security.

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"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.)