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Lithuania Closes the Loop

The record is not missing. Lithuania has archives, signatures, court filings, international rebukes, and its own institutional admissions. What it...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

AJC & B’nai B’rith: The Jewish Community Is Entitled to the Record

On Friday, May 1, 2026, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) will host a delegation from the Government of Lithuania. According to AJC’s event...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

I Have Only Ever Sued Lithuania

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...

23.04.2026 40

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

Virtues and Values

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...

21.04.2026 50

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Are Jewish organizations doing their due diligence?

This article is intentionally link-heavy. Deliberately so. The links are not decoration. They are notice architecture. They are here so that no Jewish...

19.04.2026 30

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

The Other Side of Lithuania’s Silence

I have filed approximately thirty legal actions against Lithuanian institutions since 2015. Every one has been refused. My family was murdered by...

18.04.2026 30

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

To Jewish Leaders: Read Before You Go

Yesterday I sent a letter to Congressman Brad Sherman regarding Lithuania’s 157-point antisemitism action plan. It is sixteen pages long. It...

18.04.2026 60

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

Believe Lithuania?

This article constitutes a bill of indictment. The defendant is the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania — (LGGRTC) — a state...

16.04.2026 50

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

A Fun Day at the Zoo?

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...

15.04.2026 50

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

The Jews of Lithuania were not ‘lost’

This article contains eyewitness testimony describing the murder of Jewish children in Lithuania in 1941. It is written to make you feel what...

12.04.2026 50

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

Lithuania for Lithuanians – ‘Lietuva-Lietuviams’

On March 11, 2026, a banner reading “Lietuva-Lietuviams” — “Lithuania for Lithuanians” — was hung from an overpass in Vilnius on...

11.04.2026 50

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Grant Arthur Gochin

A Question for Jewish Organizations

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...

10.04.2026 40

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

Why Lithuania Prosecutes a Jew for May 9

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 —...

09.04.2026 40

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

What Lithuania’s Formula Conceals

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...

08.04.2026 50

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Grant Arthur Gochin

The Doctrine Lithuania Never Revoked

Part 1 of 4: The day Lithuanians could no longer murder Jews with impunity For decades, Lithuanian diplomats have repeated a carefully constructed...

06.04.2026 40

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

The Coup Nobody Is Watching

Nineteen states filed at the ICJ to defend self-determination. Zimbabwe is destroying it. They have nothing to say. Nineteen states filed formal...

05.04.2026 40

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

Designed to deceive, not to inform

Lithuania wants the Holocaust to be remembered as something done to Jews by a small number of criminals under German direction. The witness record...

04.04.2026 40

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Passover in Bulawayo

Israel recognized Somaliland. The Matabele nation is next. The Exodus demands it. On December 26, 2025, Israel became the first United Nations member...

03.04.2026 50

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Lithuania’s Evasion Script

A society morally reckons with atrocity when it does more than condemn a single act of violence — when it asks what prejudices, benefits, silences,...

02.04.2026 50

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Lithuania — A Warning for Tourists

If an American tourist visits Lithuania, walks through the state’s genocide museum—a museum dedicated almost entirely to Soviet crimes against...

01.04.2026 60

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

A Seder for Lithuania

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...

31.03.2026 40

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Grant Arthur Gochin

The True Face of Lithuania

On August 16, 1941, Į laisvę published a feature titled “Grąžinkim garbę Senamiesčiui” — “Let us restore honor to the Old Town.” It...

29.03.2026 40

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

The Partisans Lithuania Celebrates

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...

28.03.2026 50

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Before the Germans Even Arrived

Lithuania’s favorite defense is chronological. The Germans came. The occupation began. The machinery of extermination followed. Therefore, whatever...

26.03.2026 60

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Grant Arthur Gochin

The Company He Kept

In “The Impossibility of Ignorance,” I argued that Lithuania asks the world to believe Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas did not know what was happening...

24.03.2026 70

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Grant Arthur Gochin

The Impossibility of Ignorance

In 2018, while already a member of NATO and the European Union, Lithuania’s Parliament (Seimas) formally recognized Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas as...

19.03.2026 40

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Why Lithuania Lies

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...

18.03.2026 50

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Grant Arthur Gochin

National Suicide at The Hague

Nineteen states filed formal declarations before the International Court of Justice asserting that denial of self-determination constitutes a...

17.03.2026 50

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Grant Arthur Gochin

The Implosion of South Africa

On March 15, 2026, the South African government issued a formal statement to the International Court of Justice declaring that Israel’s conduct...

16.03.2026 60

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Lithuania in the Dock – Article 4

Each March 15, Lithuania asks the world to watch it honor rescuers of Jews. That ceremony is supposed to project moral seriousness. It projects...

14.03.2026 50

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Rescuers Day Shields a Killer – Article 3

A state that honors rescuers while defending Jonas Noreika is not commemorating virtue. It is weaponizing the category to insulate perpetrators from...

13.03.2026 40

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

The Fraud of Deflection – Article 2

Lithuania’s commemoration of Lithuanian rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust does not stand alone. It performs a function. It directs attention...

12.03.2026 60

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Lithuania’s self-inflicted national security problem

Lithuania has handed Vladimir Putin a propaganda weapon — and it did so voluntarily. The weapon is not a military failure or a diplomatic misstep....

08.03.2026 90

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Truth Is a Crime in Lithuania

Lithuania has weaponized criminal law to protect Holocaust perpetrators and prosecute those who name them. The mechanism is not theoretical. It is...

07.03.2026 100

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Iran, Spain, Kurdistan and the Mthwakazi Question

The war now unfolding around Iran has revived an old geopolitical question. If the Iranian state weakens or fragments, will long-suppressed nations...

05.03.2026 70

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Spain’s Recognition Trap: Doctrine Exported, Doctrine Returned

Spain’s May 28, 2024 recognition of a Palestinian state was not a symbolic foreign policy gesture. It changed the rule Spain applies to sovereignty....

03.03.2026 50

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Iran and the Contract of Sovereignty

War does not merely test armies. It tests doctrines. The present conflict involving Iran has reopened a foundational question: when does territorial...

01.03.2026 50

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Selective Justice in Lithuania

On February 26, 2026, the Vilnius City District Court exercised the coercive authority of the Lithuanian state against historical distortion. Erika...

27.02.2026 60

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Applying for a Job Nobody Should Ever Want

Lithuania routinely condemns Russian revanchism, historical falsification, disinformation, and propaganda. It presents itself as a frontline...

26.02.2026 60

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

Spain’s Palestinian Recognition Demolished Its Gibraltar Position

Sovereignty, Self-Determination, Treaty Law, and the Elastic Standard Spain Cannot Contain Gibraltar is not a peripheral anomaly. It is the cleanest...

25.02.2026 100

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Grant Arthur Gochin

A Job Posting Exposes Lithuania’s Holocaust Problem

The Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Centre (LGGRTC) has advertised for a new Director General. The posting reads like a routine leadership...

22.02.2026 90

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Grant Arthur Gochin

An Institution Advertising for Fraud

The Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania is advertising for a new Director General. The notice demands an applicant of “impeccable...

20.02.2026 70

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

White Crucifixion Was Not a Prophecy

In 1938, three years before the annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry, Marc Chagall painted a crucifixion. Not a Christian crucifixion. A Jewish one. The...

19.02.2026 70

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

The ICJ Bazooka Backfires in Pretoria

Western Cape and the Fragmentation Doctrine Governance Competence, Constitutional Self-Determination, and the Recognition Standard That Must Apply...

17.02.2026 100

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Grant Arthur Gochin

The Same Sentence, Still Rewarded

09.02.2026 60

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Grant Arthur Gochin

America’s Denaturalization ‘Scandal’ Has a Lithuanian Origin

06.02.2026 90

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Lithuania: A Strategic Liability to the West

04.02.2026 70

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Holocaust Denial from a State Podium

29.01.2026 90

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Europe’s Suicide – Part 4

31.12.2025 70

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Europe’s Suicide – Part 2

28.12.2025 100

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Grant Arthur Gochin