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Lithuania confessed from the floor of Parliament

When a Member of the Seimas boasted that the Genocide Center defeated Grant Gochin in court, Lithuania’s rule-of-law defense collapsed. On April 1,...

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Eugene J. Levin

Lithuania’s EU Membership as Diplomatic Shield

When a European Union state prosecutes a Jewish citizen for historical speech, Brussels cannot pretend this is a domestic matter. Lithuania joined the...

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When Art Becomes a Political Weapon

When Art Becomes a Political Weapon

There was a time when museums existed to elevate culture, not weaponize it. That time, at least in Boston, appears to be fading. At one of the...

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Lithuania at AJC: A Warning

Lithuania at AJC: A Warning

I follow Grant Gochin’s work on Facebook, X, Substack, and Times of Israel. I do it for two reasons. Professionally, I make documentary films about...

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Boston’s MFA Has a Problem—and It’s Not Art

Boston’s MFA Has a Problem—and It’s Not Art

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is no longer merely curating art. It is attempting to pass judgment on one of the most complex and volatile conflicts...

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Eugene J. Levin

How Lithuania Converts Holocaust Evidence into State Innocence

The strongest evidence against Lithuania’s Holocaust-memory regime is not what its critics allege. It is what Lithuania’s own institutions have...

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Eugene J. Levin

Delfi Chose the Kippah

I direct documentaries. Before a single word of narration is written, decisions have already been made that tell the audience how to feel about the...

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Eugene J. Levin

Lithuania Murdered Its Future, Now Sells a Mirage

I made Baltic Truth because I could see what Lithuania was selling the West and I knew the product did not exist. Five years later, Lithuania is still...

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Eugene J. Levin

AJC and Lithuania’s Fraud

Lithuania does not maintain its Holocaust narrative alone. It is helped by Jewish institutions willing to behave as if the evidentiary environment...

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Eugene J. Levin

Questions for AJC and B’nai B’rith

I write in good faith, as a member of the community these organizations serve, with questions I hope their leadership will treat seriously. The...

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Eugene J. Levin

I Have Seen This Before (Part 2)

In Part 1, I showed that the Lithuanian state’s official position on the service of Lithuanian guards at Majdanek is “tales and stretching the...

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I Have Seen This Before (Part 1)

I Have Seen This Before (Part 1) The Soviet Union brutally occupied Latvia. I was born under Soviet rule and learned early what that meant: a...

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Lithuania’s Next Jewish Target

On a public Facebook thread, a Lithuanian citizen named Saulius Gudas wrote: “O will be for him, and so will A. Fridman—to the LT court. I don’t...

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Eugene J. Levin

The Silence Lithuania Chose

As someone who spent 16 years of his life growing up in the Soviet system, I know what state silence sounds like. In the Soviet Union, silence was not...

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Eugene J. Levin

Jews Begged Germans to Save Them from Lithuanian

Almost five years after the release of my documentary Baltic Truth—a film exposing Holocaust distortion in Latvia and Lithuania, now streaming on...

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Eugene J. Levin

Lithuania Needs Only One Jew

Lithuania does not need to prosecute everyone. It only needs to prosecute one person visibly enough that everyone else understands the price of...

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Eugene J. Levin

They Came Home to Be Murdered

I was born in Riga, Latvia. My family suffered under Nazis and under Soviets. With my whole heart, I say emphatically — it is reprehensible to deny...

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Eugene J. Levin

The Museum, the Prosecution, and AJC

Four years after the release of my documentary Baltic Truth—a film I made alone, practically without the backing of any major Jewish organization,...

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Eugene J. Levin

Lithuania, Poland, and Congress (Part 2)

Lithuania, Poland, and Congress (Part 2) In Part 1, I showed that Lithuania has articulated a governing doctrine of public honor: when disqualifying...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eugene J. Levin

Lithuania, Poland, and Congress (Part 1)

Lithuania, Poland, and Congress (Part 1) Lithuania has now stated, in plain language, the rule that condemns its own commemorative system: once...

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Eugene J. Levin

Catholic Complicity and the Obligation of Repair

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“What I Witnessed Wasn’t Protest — It Was Hate”

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Eugene J. Levin