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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...
Part 4 of 4: The day Lithuanians could no longer murder Jews with impunity In Part 1, I decoded the formula Nazis, Soviets, and collaborators — the...
Part 3 of 4: The day Lithuanians could no longer murder Jews with impunity In Part 1, I exposed the formula — Nazis, Soviets, and collaborators —...
Part 2 of 4: The day Lithuanians could no longer murder Jews with impunity In Part 1, I exposed the formula Lithuanian diplomats deploy before...
Part 1 of 4: The day Lithuanians could no longer murder Jews with impunity For decades, Lithuanian diplomats have repeated a carefully constructed...
Nineteen states filed at the ICJ to defend self-determination. Zimbabwe is destroying it. They have nothing to say. Nineteen states filed formal...
Lithuania wants the Holocaust to be remembered as something done to Jews by a small number of criminals under German direction. The witness record...
Israel recognized Somaliland. The Matabele nation is next. The Exodus demands it. On December 26, 2025, Israel became the first United Nations member...
A society morally reckons with atrocity when it does more than condemn a single act of violence — when it asks what prejudices, benefits, silences,...
If an American tourist visits Lithuania, walks through the state’s genocide museum—a museum dedicated almost entirely to Soviet crimes against...
On Passover, Jews recite Dayenu — a hymn of cumulative gratitude. Had God only brought us out of Egypt but not split the sea, it would have been...
On August 16, 1941, Į laisvę published a feature titled “Grąžinkim garbę Senamiesčiui” — “Let us restore honor to the Old Town.” It...
Lithuania is prosecuting Artur Fridman for what he said about partisans. That is the simplest way to state the issue, and it is already damning. I...
Lithuania’s favorite defense is chronological. The Germans came. The occupation began. The machinery of extermination followed. Therefore, whatever...
In “The Impossibility of Ignorance,” I argued that Lithuania asks the world to believe Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas did not know what was happening...
In 2018, while already a member of NATO and the European Union, Lithuania’s Parliament (Seimas) formally recognized Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas as...
Lies persist where they are useful. They harden where they are profitable. They become policy where a state has decided it will not surrender what...
Nineteen states filed formal declarations before the International Court of Justice asserting that denial of self-determination constitutes a...
On March 15, 2026, the South African government issued a formal statement to the International Court of Justice declaring that Israel’s conduct...
Each March 15, Lithuania asks the world to watch it honor rescuers of Jews. That ceremony is supposed to project moral seriousness. It projects...
A state that honors rescuers while defending Jonas Noreika is not commemorating virtue. It is weaponizing the category to insulate perpetrators from...
Lithuania’s commemoration of Lithuanian rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust does not stand alone. It performs a function. It directs attention...
Lithuania has handed Vladimir Putin a propaganda weapon — and it did so voluntarily. The weapon is not a military failure or a diplomatic misstep....