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Eugene J. LevinThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
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,...
When a European Union state prosecutes a Jewish citizen for historical speech, Brussels cannot pretend this is a domestic matter. Lithuania joined the...
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...
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...
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...
The strongest evidence against Lithuania’s Holocaust-memory regime is not what its critics allege. It is what Lithuania’s own institutions have...
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...
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...
Lithuania does not maintain its Holocaust narrative alone. It is helped by Jewish institutions willing to behave as if the evidentiary environment...
I write in good faith, as a member of the community these organizations serve, with questions I hope their leadership will treat seriously. The...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Almost five years after the release of my documentary Baltic Truth—a film exposing Holocaust distortion in Latvia and Lithuania, now streaming on...
Lithuania does not need to prosecute everyone. It only needs to prosecute one person visibly enough that everyone else understands the price of...
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...
Four years after the release of my documentary Baltic Truth—a film I made alone, practically without the backing of any major Jewish organization,...
Lithuania, Poland, and Congress (Part 2) In Part 1, I showed that Lithuania has articulated a governing doctrine of public honor: when disqualifying...
Lithuania, Poland, and Congress (Part 1) Lithuania has now stated, in plain language, the rule that condemns its own commemorative system: once...