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Eugene J. Levin

Eugene J. Levin

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The Witness IHRA Already Warned About

Lithuania’s state historical institution cannot credibly serve as clean historical authority in the Fridman prosecution after IHRA’s own experts...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eugene J. Levin

The S-424 Boomerang

Lithuania used a public-person ruling to weaken a Jewish critic. In the Fridman case, the same ruling makes the state’s witness harder to protect....

25.05.2026 50

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eugene J. Levin

The Court That Already Disqualified the Witness

Lithuania used procedure to shield LGGRTC from review. It cannot now use the same institution as certified proof against Artur Fridman. In 2020,...

21.05.2026 50

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Eugene J. Levin

Are the People Around Us Better Because We Were Here?

Growing up in the Soviet Union, I never needed a rabbi to tell me I was Jewish. The state took care of that. It was stamped in your passport,...

19.05.2026 60

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eugene J. Levin

The Witness That Cannot Survive Cross-Examination, Part IV

The Witness That Cannot Survive Cross-Examination, Part IV Part I tried LGGRTC through institutional impeachment. Part II tried LGGRTC through its own...

18.05.2026 50

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eugene J. Levin

The Witness That Cannot Survive Cross-Examination, Part III

The Witness That Cannot Survive Cross-Examination, Part III The legal architecture and the seven exits that are not exits Parts I and II tried LGGRTC...

16.05.2026 50

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eugene J. Levin

The Witness That Cannot Survive Cross-Examination, Part II

The witness’s own documents convict the institution Part I tried LGGRTC through the institutions that have already impeached it. Lithuania’s own...

15.05.2026 70

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eugene J. Levin

The Witness That Cannot Survive Cross-Examination, Part I

The public trial of LGGRTC before Lithuania can avoid the courtroom Lithuania’s Genocide and Resistance Research Center, LGGRTC, is expected to...

14.05.2026 60

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eugene J. Levin

NATO’s Holocaust Problem

A NATO member state has criminalized a Jewish citizen for Facebook speech and invokes the Alliance as cover. The Alliance text remains operative....

13.05.2026 60

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eugene J. Levin

The Riga Witness, the Vilnius Defendant

For five years, I researched and documented the history and legacy of the Baltic Holocaust while producing my documentary Baltic Truth, now available...

11.05.2026 60

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eugene J. Levin

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,...

08.05.2026 70

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

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...

07.05.2026 70

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eugene J. Levin

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...

05.05.2026 70

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eugene J. Levin

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...

01.05.2026 80

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Eugene J. Levin

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...

29.04.2026 70

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

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...

27.04.2026 70

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

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...

23.04.2026 80

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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...

22.04.2026 70

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

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...

21.04.2026 70

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

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...

19.04.2026 70

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

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...

16.04.2026 100

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Eugene J. Levin

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...

15.04.2026 70

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Eugene J. Levin

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...

13.04.2026 70

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

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...

10.04.2026 80

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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...

09.04.2026 70

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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...

06.04.2026 80

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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...

04.04.2026 70

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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,...

01.04.2026 80

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

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...

29.03.2026 80

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...

28.03.2026 90

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Eugene J. Levin

Catholic Complicity and the Obligation of Repair

08.02.2026 90

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Eugene J. Levin

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

02.05.2025 70

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Eugene J. Levin