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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,...

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Lithuania — A Warning for Tourists

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...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

A Seder for Lithuania

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...

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Grant Arthur Gochin

The True Face of Lithuania

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 20

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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 40

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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 40

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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 40

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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 30

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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 30

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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 40

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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 50

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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 40

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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 30

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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 40

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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 60

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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 80

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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 50

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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 40

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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 40

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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 50

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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 50

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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 80

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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 80

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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 60

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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 60

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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...

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The Same Sentence, Still Rewarded

09.02.2026 50

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Grant Arthur Gochin

America’s Denaturalization ‘Scandal’ Has a Lithuanian Origin

06.02.2026 70

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Lithuania: A Strategic Liability to the West

04.02.2026 60

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Holocaust Denial from a State Podium

29.01.2026 70

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Europe’s Suicide – Part 4

31.12.2025 50

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Europe’s Suicide – Part 2

28.12.2025 90

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Pinkwashing: A Proud Gay Man’s Exposé

25.12.2025 70

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Grant Arthur Gochin

South Africa’s Path to Failed State Status

22.12.2025 100

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Grant Arthur Gochin

The Incompatibility of Judaism and Antizionism

20.12.2025 100

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Prelude to Persecution

19.12.2025 70

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Dismantling Anti-Israel Deception

17.12.2025 50

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Ireland’s War on the Jews

16.12.2025 20

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Venezuela’s Occupiers Per Machado = South Africa’s Allies

12.12.2025 50

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Grant Arthur Gochin

South Africa’s Palestinian Bill Arrives

11.12.2025 30

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Betrayed Aid: Redirect Jewish Giving

10.12.2025 70

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Shared Scars: Jewish Diaspora & Slave Trade

02.12.2025 90

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Iran’s Purchase of South Africa’s Foreign Policy

23.10.2025 40

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Grant Arthur Gochin

The Fraud of ‘Deliberate Starvation’

16.10.2025 90

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Israel’s Betrayal by Global Lies

06.09.2025 80

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The UN’s Betrayal

30.08.2025 40

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Woke is Broke

25.08.2025 50

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Grant Arthur Gochin

A Feminist Betrayal

18.08.2025 40

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Hijacked Ideals

13.08.2025 60

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Mainstream Media’s Blood Libels Against Israel

02.08.2025 80

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Grant Arthur Gochin