Grant Arthur Gochin

A Question for Jewish Organizations

Artur Fridman - source: personal archive (republished with permission)
Artur Fridman - source: personal archive (republished with permission)

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 three-word fraud Lithuania delivers before Jewish audiences to conceal Lithuanian agency in the murder of Jews. In Part 2, I documented the specific Lithuanian murders the formula hides. In Part 3, I showed that May 9, 1945, ended those murders, that Lithuania prosecuted a Jew for marking that date, and that Lithuania’s documented pattern — from 1941 to 2026 — is to attack only those who cannot fight back. This final installment applies Lithuania’s own interpretive standard symmetrically and asks the Jewish organizations that platform Lithuania’s diplomats a question they will not be able to avoid.

Lithuania’s Own Standard, Applied Symmetrically

Lithuania’s prosecutors performed language analysis on Artur Fridman’s Facebook post and concluded that his use of the date May 9 constituted anti-Lithuanian sentiment — that marking the end of Nazi Germany’s war was, by interpretive inference, an attack on Lithuanian identity. Lithuania has established this as the governing analytical standard: a citizen’s relationship to a date can be decoded to extract hostility toward the Lithuanian nation.

If that standard is legitimate, it must apply symmetrically. A Lithuanian who objects to May 9, 1945, is objecting to the date on which Lithuanians could no longer murder Jews with impunity. By Lithuania’s own analytical framework, that objection can only be read as regret that the murder of Jews ended. If Fridman’s celebration of the end of murder constitutes anti-Lithuanian sentiment, then Lithuanian mourning of the end of murder constitutes support for the murder of Jews. Lithuania chose the interpretive game. It must accept the consequences of its own rules.

The State That Prosecutes Jewish Speech and Manufactures Holocaust Fraud

The hypocrisy is not incidental. It is structural. Lithuania charges a Jew with distorting Soviet history while its entire state machinery is designed for Holocaust fraud. Congressman Brad Sherman has written four letters over fourteen years exposing the LGGRTC’s fabrication of a false American “exoneration” of Juozas Ambrazevičius-Brazaitis — head of the 1941 Provisional Government under whose authority mass murder was initiated. Lithuania’s Genocide Centre dismissed a senior member of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee as offering merely “the opinion of a politician.” Lithuania fabricated American documents. It persisted after notice. It ignored congressional correction. And then it deployed its criminal justice system against a Jew for a Facebook post.

Lithuania’s system is not broken. It is functioning exactly as designed: to protect Lithuanian perpetrators and to silence Jewish witnesses. Lithuania refused to hear thirty legal actions asking its courts to examine the documentary record of Holocaust fraud. It blocked every case. It deployed no language experts to analyze the LGGRTC’s fabricated claims. It assigned no prosecutors to investigate the institutional falsification of American congressional documents. But for one Jewish citizen’s Facebook post, it mobilized the full apparatus of the state. The disproportion is the message. Lithuania does not prosecute Holocaust fraud. Lithuania prosecutes Jews who expose Holocaust fraud.

What This Means for Jewish-Lithuanian Relations

Lithuania’s relationship with Jews is not a partnership with unresolved complications. It is a sustained institutional fraud decorated with diplomatic ceremony. Israel may maintain state-to-state relations with Lithuania as sovereign interests require. But Lithuania now lies exposed before the Jewish world. No self-respecting Jew can regard any relationship with Lithuania as anything other than transactional. There is no fellowship here. There is no shared moral vocabulary and no shared “values”. There is a state that honors the architects of Jewish destruction, operates a government department dedicated to falsifying the record of that destruction, and prosecutes the Jewish citizen who forces the contradiction into view. That is not a partner. That is an adversary wearing diplomatic clothing.

The Formula Has Been Decoded

The meaning of the formula Nazis, Soviets, and collaborators has now been explained to the Jewish world. Every word has been decoded. The concealment has been documented. The three-word fraud is on the permanent public record. From this point forward, any Jew or Jewish organization that tolerates that phrase being delivered from a Jewish platform — unchallenged, uncorrected, and unexamined — is allowing their institution to be used as an instrument of Holocaust distortion. Ignorance was an excuse before this series. It is no longer an excuse after it.

The government of Lithuania is a documented distorter of the Holocaust. This is a finding of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, of Congressman Sherman’s record, of Lithuania’s own Seimas-created expert council, and of decades of scholarship. The default assumption when a Lithuanian government official communicates about the Holocaust must be that the words require examination for their truthful meaning. Lithuania has forfeited the presumption of good faith. It forfeited that presumption when it fabricated American documents, when it dismissed congressional correction, when it honored the architects of Jewish destruction, and when it prosecuted a Jew for remembering what Lithuania did.

Who Has Acted and Who Has Not

Some have acted. Dillon Hosier, CEO of the Israeli-American Civic Action Network, sent a formal letter to Lithuania’s consul general demanding answers. Congressman Sherman has written four times. The Board of Rabbis has spoken. These voices have placed themselves on record.

But where is the American Jewish Committee? Where is the Anti-Defamation League? Where is B’nai B’rith International? A European Union member state is criminally prosecuting a Jewish citizen for speech about the Holocaust — and the largest Jewish institutional voices in America have not issued a single public statement.

These organizations scan every published article for mentions of their names. They monitor media coverage. They track public discourse. There is no possibility that the Fridman prosecution, the Sherman letters, the ICAN intervention, or this series of articles will escape their attention. Their silence is not an oversight. It is a position.

The AJC and B’nai B’rith have maintained extensive relationships with Lithuanian diplomatic and governmental institutions for decades. They have hosted Lithuanian delegations. They have accepted Lithuanian participation in Jewish commemorative events. They have lent Jewish institutional credibility to Lithuania’s diplomatic performances. That history places them on the record as Lithuania’s facilitators and benefactors within the Jewish world — and it places them on the record now, as either involved or deliberately absent, while a Jewish citizen faces criminal prosecution for discussing the murder of his own community.

Every Jewish organization that continues to platform Lithuanian diplomats, to host Lithuanian delegations at Holocaust commemorations, and to lend Jewish credibility to Lithuania’s diplomatic performances must answer a question: on whose behalf are you acting? Lithuania uses these platforms to deliver the formula. The formula conceals Lithuanian crimes. Every platform extended is a platform for concealment. The Jewish organizations that provide these stages must answer to world Jewry how they can justify lending institutional legitimacy to a state that prosecutes Jews for discussing the murder of Jews while operating a government department dedicated to denying that Lithuanians committed those murders.

The Record Is Permanent

In 1941, Škirpa demanded the elimination of Jews from Lithuania, and Lithuania’s institutions carried out that demand with documented enthusiasm. In 2026, Lithuania honors Škirpa, operates a state institution dedicated to the suppression of the historical record, and prosecutes the Jewish citizen who forced the contradiction into public view. The instrument has changed. The targeting has not. Lithuania put itself on the permanent record when Škirpa demanded the elimination of Jews. Lithuania confirmed that record when it prosecuted the Jew who remembered.

The Jewish organizations that offer Lithuania a stage are choosing a side. The worldwide Jewish community should hold them to account for what they do next.

Realpolitik cannot supersede 220,000 murdered Jews. Our murdered families demand to be heard and respected.

About the Author
Grant Arthur Gochin is a diplomat, author, researcher, and wealth advisor whose public work focuses on historical accountability, Jewish continuity, antisemitism, and recognition doctrine. He serves as Honorary Consul for the Republic of Togo and as Emeritus Dean and a Member at Large of the Executive Committee of the Los Angeles Consular Corps. From 2018 to 2020, he served as Special Envoy for Diaspora Affairs with the African Union Mission to the United States. Gochin also serves, in a voluntary, unremunerated and non-executive capacity, as Advisor on Recognition Doctrine and Sovereignty to the Mthwakazi Republic Party, Office of the President. His work there concerns international recognition, sovereignty, state continuity, comparative precedent and remedial self-determination. Unless expressly stated otherwise, his published views are his own and do not represent the positions of any government or institution with which he is or has been associated. His philanthropic work in Togo led to his investiture as Chief of the Village of Babade. For several decades, Gochin has researched Holocaust history, Jewish heritage and historical memory in Lithuania. He served as Chair of the Maceva Project, working on the documentation, preservation and restoration of abandoned and neglected Jewish cemeteries. His archival research, litigation and public advocacy have focused particularly on the treatment of Holocaust perpetrators and collaborators in Lithuanian state memory and on documented instances of Holocaust distortion by state institutions. He is the author of Malice, Murder and Manipulation (2013), which traces the destruction of his family in Lithuania and examines subsequent historical distortion. His writing regularly addresses antisemitism, Holocaust memory, governmental misinformation, Israel’s legitimacy and security, and the political use of historical narratives. Gochin is a PhD candidate in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Gratz College. His research examines institutional responses to documented claims concerning Holocaust memory, historical accountability and post-genocide historical revisionism. Professionally, Gochin is a Certified Financial Planner™ and wealth advisor based in California. He holds an MBA earned with academic honors and leads Grant Arthur & Associates Wealth Services. He lives in Los Angeles with his husband, son, and dog, Kelev. www.grantgochin.com
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