Lithuania’s Antisemitism Resolution Is Orwellian Fraud

It has been almost four years since the release of my documentary Baltic Truth—a film exposing Holocaust distortion in Latvia and Lithuania and now streaming on Amazon Prime—yet it feels as if nothing has changed on the ground. The same institutions continue to manipulate history, the same patterns of denial persist, and the same state-sponsored revisionism remains firmly in place. Lithuania’s January 2026 “Action Plan” on antisemitism and Holocaust memory is, sadly, the latest proof.

Lithuania’s January 2026 “Action Plan” on antisemitism and Holocaust memory is not merely inadequate. It is structurally dishonest. The document purports to “preserve Holocaust memory” and “counter disinformation,” yet assigns operational authority to the very institution that has spent decades laundering perpetrator histories, falsifying records, and intimidating critics. That institution—the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania (LGGRTC)—is not a research body in any meaningful sense. It is an Orwellian center of fraud.

LGGRTC’s function has been consistent: to convert genocide into “context,” perpetrators into “freedom fighters,” and evidence into “balanced debate.” It has issued findings that exculpate administrators of ghettos, normalize genocidal policy as “tragic circumstances,” and reframe Lithuanian agency as marginal or coerced. These are not scholarly disputes. They are state outputs—used to defend honors, block removals, and justify ongoing erasure of Jewish heritage.

To claim that a plan to preserve Holocaust memory can be operationalized by LGGRTC is to invert reality. It is equivalent to asking an arsonist to run the fire brigade.

What implementation actually requires

If Lithuania intends this resolution to be anything other than a reputational shield, it must accept that implementation is impossible without dismantling the fraud architecture. At minimum, the following actions are required—publicly, formally, and immediately:

1. Shutter LGGRTC
   Suspend operations; freeze publications; halt public communications. An institution that has repeatedly falsified Holocaust history cannot be “retrained” into integrity.
2. Revoke all LGGRTC Holocaust-related findings
   Issue a formal nullification of LGGRTC conclusions that address Jewish persecution, collaboration, ghettos, and mass killings. Treat them as contaminated outputs pending independent review.
3. Establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission
   Create an independent, international commission with subpoena power; full archive access; survivor, descendant, and external historian representation; and a fixed mandate to publish unredacted findings.
4. Personnel accountability
   Terminate employment of LGGRTC staff involved in Holocaust falsification; bar them from related public posts; and revoke state pensions tied to service that produced fraudulent outputs (including senior figures such as Birutė Burauskaitė).
5. Archive release and audit
   Open all relevant archives—without gatekeeping—to international audit; publish inventories; and prohibit selective citation or redaction except for personal data protection.
6. Withdrawal of honors and symbols
   Remove state honors, plaques, and street names for perpetrators and administrators of genocide; publish a complete list with dates of removal.
7. Immediate protection and restitution of Jewish heritage
   Return and permanently protect Jewish cemeteries and burial grounds (including Šnipiškės); cease development; establish Jewish veto authority over burial sites.
8. National apology for state fraud
   Issue a parliamentary apology that explicitly acknowledges state-sponsored falsification, intimidation, and misrepresentation of allied legal findings; name the conduct; accept responsibility.
9. External oversight of implementation
   Place the Action Plan under supervision by international partners; prohibit LGGRTC or successor bodies from leading or evaluating compliance.
10. Legal remedies and sanctions
    Create statutory consequences for future falsification: civil liability, loss of office, and criminal penalties where applicable.

Additional demands that follow logically

Beyond the above, a credible reset also requires:

• Judicial review of past decisions that relied on LGGRTC outputs to block removals or protect honors.
• Mandatory correction notices attached to prior publications, museum exhibits, and school materials.
• Independent funding for Holocaust research outside state control.
• Standing community consent: no policy affecting Jewish heritage without Jewish community approval.
• Allied verification: acceptance of U.S., Israeli, German, and EU review of compliance.

A call to AJC and IHRA

This resolution invokes the language of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and seeks reputational cover from Jewish partners, including the American Jewish Committee. That makes silence indefensible.

AJC and all IHRA member states must publicly repudiate the resolution as currently constituted. Endorsement without conditions would amount to complicity in fraud. If IHRA standards mean anything, they must be enforced against members who weaponize memory while falsifying history.

As revisionist as Russian propaganda

Lithuania’s document is revisionist in the same way Russian state narratives are revisionist: it substitutes ceremony for truth, procedural language for accountability, and “resilience” for reckoning. Both seek legitimacy through narrative control. Both treat history as a tool of statecraft. The difference is only the flag.

If Lithuania wants this resolution to stand as reform rather than fraud, the path is clear and costly—and unavoidable. Without dismantling LGGRTC, revoking its outputs, holding perpetrators of falsification accountable, and apologizing for state deceit, the plan is not a defense against disinformation. It is disinformation.

Silence from allies will not make it true. Repudiation might.