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Grant Arthur GochinThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
From Papilė to Zurich, l’dor v’dor Nearly fifty years ago, on November 13, 1976, my grandfather Samuel Gochin was called to the Torah at my bar...
I was born in South Africa. Africa is not a cause I adopted or a vocabulary I picked up in a seminar. It is the ground I come from, and the place...
The official origin date of the Lithuanian Holocaust was chosen to put a German hand on the rifle. The Government of Lithuania are, in my judgment,...
South Africa wants the world to see it as the moral prosecutor of Israel. It should first explain why African migrants are again living in fear on...
As Mthwakazi leader Mqondisi Moyo urges Zimbabweans to prepare, the government that took Israel to The Hague must prove that it can prevent threatened...
Lithuania has repeatedly used a survivor-founded museum as cover for Holocaust distortion. The museum was warned, and kept providing the platform. On...
The ANC brought Israel before the world’s court while preserving racial government, hollowing out its institutions and losing control of streets...
On June 27, 2026, the eighty-fifth anniversary of the Lietūkis Garage massacre will be marked in Kaunas and by Lithuanian diplomats in Israel and...
A government cannot champion Sahrawi self-determination, threaten Matabele advocates, and still present itself as a guardian of international peace....
Three witnesses with nothing in common reached the same conclusion about Lithuania’s Holocaust record. So did the historians the Lithuanian state...
Why I petitioned IHRA to review Lithuania’s membership Orwell gave his invented tyranny a Ministry of Truth, and gave the Ministry a single task:...
From Herzl to Mthwakazi, one logic has produced sovereignty: build the institutions first, then force the world to recognize the reality. On May 25,...
A South African critique of my article exposed how easily accusation replaces evidence. I wrote an argument. It was turned into an operation. My Times...
In April 2019, the chairs and recent chairs of the expert working groups and committees of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance issued a...
Lithuania began restraining Artur Fridman before it indicted him. The January 8 written pledge is the operative document. Lithuania did not wait for...
What Lithuania Means When It Says Jews “Vanished,” “Lost,” or “Perished” and Lost Herrings examined Lithuania’s vocabulary: Jews...
A short companion to “What Lithuania Means When It Says ‘Vanished,’ ‘Lost,’ or ‘Perished’” Full article:...
Recognition, sovereignty, and the politics of survival. While much of the world treats Africa as a stage for ideological theatre, Israel treats Africa...
Lithuania calls itself a free-speech democracy. Its Holocaust-memory law runs in one direction only. Lithuania did not begin by prosecuting Artur...
Mthwakazi faces a reported death threat from a head of state. The anti-Israel genocide machinery has nothing to say. There is a genocide industry. By...
The Fridman prosecution is not law. It is state mythology enforced by criminal statute. Lithuania does not merely remember the Forest Brothers. It...
Recognition is not destabilization. Refusing reality is. Israel did what Africa’s diplomatic class has refused to do for more than three decades. It...
South Sudan Won the Right to Choose. Mthwakazi Is Asking to Be Heard. Israel’s recognition of Somaliland may prove to be one of the most important...
President Gitanas Nausėda declared on May 15, 2026, that demolishing the Vilnius Concert and Sports Palace would be irresponsible because the...
An African liberation movement did something many governments, universities, newspapers, and feminist organizations refused to do. It read the...
Lithuania escalates to the maximum instrument its reach allows. Against the unreachable, the instrument is defamation. Against the reachable, it is...
Lithuania is physically safe for Jews. It is not safe for Jewish speech. Every Jew on Lithuanian soil should consider emigrating. Lithuania is not...
Lithuania’s own case file helps prove the historical question it criminalized. Lithuania’s own indictment of Artur Fridman includes the document...
Lithuania’s free-speech performance collapses when Facebook posts and YouTube videos become state files. Lithuania left the Soviet Union in 1990....
The photograph is the answer to every name Lithuania has called me. Image source: Papilė family photograph, July 27, 1927. I have spent decades...
How Lithuania filed in court the defense Adolf Eichmann raised before he was hanged Adolf Eichmann was not executed because he invented the cog...
In July 2018 I filed a criminal complaint under Article 170² § 1 of the Lithuanian Criminal Code against the state Genocide and Resistance Research...
Ottawa exported self-determination against Israel. Now Alberta and Quebec should ask the same question. Canada recognized the State of Palestine on...
Fridman is now the poster child for the Jew victimized by Lithuania’s campaign to govern Jewish memory. Lithuania has turned a Jew’s May 9...
On December 27, 2019, Lithuania’s national broadcaster published an interview with Birutė Burauskaitė, then director of the state Genocide and...
In Samuel Gochin Existed, I set down the documentary spine of my paternal grandfather’s life in Lithuania. Birth in Papilė on 15 February 1902....
On May 9, 2024, Artur Fridman, a Jewish citizen of Lithuania, visited Antakalnis Cemetery in Vilnius to honor his grandfather Aron Fridman, a Jewish...
This article begins with one name: Samuel Gochin. Lithuania knew that name. It knew him as a Jewish child from Papilė. It knew him as a survivor of...
Twenty-four documented modes by which Lithuanian state institutions distort, minimize, or invert the historical record of the Holocaust On May 9,...
The record is not missing. Lithuania has archives, signatures, court filings, international rebukes, and its own institutional admissions. What it...
On Friday, May 1, 2026, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) will host a delegation from the Government of Lithuania. According to AJC’s event...
I am sixty-two years old. I have been in business for forty years. The only lawsuits I have ever filed in my life are against Lithuania. I am not a...
Lithuania arrives in Los Angeles the week of April 27 with three known meetings and one message. April 27–30: the North American Lithuanian Business...
This article is intentionally link-heavy. Deliberately so. The links are not decoration. They are notice architecture. They are here so that no Jewish...
I have filed approximately thirty legal actions against Lithuanian institutions since 2015. Every one has been refused. My family was murdered by...
Yesterday I sent a letter to Congressman Brad Sherman regarding Lithuania’s 157-point antisemitism action plan. It is sixteen pages long. It...
This article constitutes a bill of indictment. The defendant is the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania — (LGGRTC) — a state...
A zoo is a place families go on a Sunday afternoon. Parents hold their children’s hands. They point at the animals. The children laugh. It is...
This article contains eyewitness testimony describing the murder of Jewish children in Lithuania in 1941. It is written to make you feel what...
On March 11, 2026, a banner reading “Lietuva-Lietuviams” — “Lithuania for Lithuanians” — was hung from an overpass in Vilnius on...
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