COMMENTARY
The Question of Jewish Armed Self-Defense
Seth Mandel
January 6, 2026

In the wake of the Bondi Beach massacre, Hugh Hewitt asked me during a segment on his show whether I thought Jews should arm themselves. I responded that Jews in America are indeed, in increasing numbers, following Vladimir Jabotinsky’s exhortation to “learn to shoot,” though in Australia that choice is foreclosed by the country’s famously restrictive firearm regulations. The freedom to make that choice is what’s most important, because it is a sign of a political system that values individual rights and requires a degree of humility on the part of the state. Australia’s national government, currently led by the cold, feckless Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, exudes neither humility nor a respect for individual citizens. The result is not just atrocities like Bondi Beach but the flagrant mishandling of its aftermath and the robotic adherence to the status quo that produced the tragedy in the first place. READ MORE

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