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Grant Arthur GochinThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
In 2024 Lithuania’s Genocide Centre placed Kazys Braželis in a genocide-victims register without stating the offense behind his 1962 sentence. A...
Hilberg supplied the frame. Lithuania’s own Commission supplied the evidence. The 2024 report does not engage either one. The Lithuanian Genocide...
On May 9, 2024, a Jewish citizen of Vilnius went to Antakalnis Cemetery to stand at the grave of his grandfather Aron Fridman, who fought Nazi Germany...
Lithuania has spent decades telling the world what is wrong with Russia. The description fits Vilnius. On August 17, 2026, a Moscow court sentenced...
Lithuania’s problem is no longer merely what its historians conclude. It is what the state does to evidence that produces the wrong conclusion....
Artur Fridman did not enter an empty courtroom. Lithuania spent 15 years building the criminal-law boundary now applied to his Facebook post. Artur...
South Africa’s Justice Minister linked Israel to domestic unrest and the ICJ case. Her own newspaper source recorded the missing part: evidence....
Pretoria went to The Hague to make principles travel against Israel. Its own pleadings explain why those principles do not stop at Israel’s border...
Lithuania names its rescuers. It anonymizes its murderers. Thirteen years ago this week, a man died in Sutton, Massachusetts. Vladas Zajanckauskas was...
Europe grants its own distant sovereignties history, constitutional complexity and democratic nuance. The Jewish state receives one word: colonial. On...
South Africa demands that international law bind Israel. A letter delivered and stamped in Pretoria today asks whether it binds South Africa. A letter...
Lithuania’s action plan contains useful projects and measurable commitments. It still lacks an institution capable of deciding that the state itself...
Since 2015 I have filed forty-nine formal submissions with Lithuanian state bodies. Eight lawsuits and international filings. Eleven to the Genocide...
Guilt, Shame, and Lithuania’s Moral Inversion Lithuania found legal guilt and imposed no punishment. It found Jewish speech and built a 220-page...
Lithuania published the deployment map. Foreign courts named the men. The state never produced the ledger. How many Jews did Lithuanians murder? The...
Pretoria mobilizes law and outrage against Israel. When Africans died at Spain’s African frontier, its Pan-African conscience went silent....
Nazi Germany brought the command to kill. German police shot 201 people at Gargždai on June 24, 1941; five days later Heydrich issued his first...
Lithuania answers evidence of institutional participation with a defense of collective innocence because collective innocence is easier to prove than...
Lithuania has never punished a Lithuanian for the murder of Jews. It threatens a Jewish citizen with prison for speech. On March 27, 2006, the Vilnius...
The Innocence Was Manufactured – The evidence produced culpability. The courts produced exemption. Part I set out the documentary record: the...
Before the pit came the police file On July 5, 1941, a Lithuanian troop commander asked what should be done with nine captured Jews and their...
Report No. 9R-598 is not an innocent historical disagreement. It is an official exoneration, manufactured by changing the rules of evidence to fit the...
When a contested legal conclusion becomes editorial shorthand, it stops protecting the people who need it. On July 15, more than 1,000 people gathered...
The Lithuanian radical right sought German money for pogroms a year before the Soviets came. Every national defense needs a start date, and...
This summer marks eighty-five years since the destruction of Jewish Kaunas (Kovno to its Jews) began. The anniversary arrives amid a renewed rupture...
How Holocaust collaborators remade themselves as anti-Communist refugees, used the Lithuanian émigré community as cover, and walked into the...
In The Kremlin Method, Practiced in Vilnius, I described a Lithuanian state institution that behaves less like a research body than an information-war...
Lithuania’s Genocide Centre defends claims it knows to be false, answers evidence by designating the people who carry it, and has adopted the...
South Africa built a legal standard at The Hague. It now applies at the Limpopo. Mqondisi Moyo’s statement of July 12 needs no help from me, and it...
I still call myself a gay liberal. At least, that is how I define myself. Whether every person who now claims those words would still permit me to use...
The Gochin-Foti model, and the Lithuanian state that chose fraud Jews do not believe in inherited guilt. A grandchild does not carry the crimes of a...
An antisemitic conspiracy theory does not begin with evidence. It begins with need. A country fails. Its ruling party hollows out institutions, public...
Scott Wiener wrote the laws. The movement he championed drove him from its own march. Grace did my mother’s hair. She was in our home, in the...
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...
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