“I don’t believe anyone truly opposes violence,” he declares. “People only oppose who I propose to be violent for. Let me use a perfect example, since I’m coming to Israel. The allied forces went into concentration camps in 1945 and killed Nazis − it was violence. But you can’t come to Nazis with a sign and say − ‘Hey, stop killing Jews!’ If people are being killed because they believe in a different god, if they’re being killed because they’re a different color − stopping it is vicarious self-defense. The only thing it takes for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing. Jews were being killed because people didn’t do anything. Animals are being victimized because people say that’s the law of the land. Nobody wants to be violent for a chicken. People don’t think a human should be killed for a chicken. I disagree, and I think the chickens disagree. They are being killed because they are a commodity − people want to eat their flesh and steal their babies.
“I’m not happy that violence has to be used to achieve those goals,” he adds, “but there’s a myth out there that love conquers evil, that peace will conquer insanity and stupidity. It doesn’t always. If we break into a slaughterhouse and point guns at employees saying, ‘Put down your knives!’ − that’s not violence, we’re trying to stop the violence. But please remember that I spend my time educating people − I’ve never committed an act of violence.”