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 contains more than sixty hyperlinked source documents. I do not expect most people to read it. I wrote it anyway.
The letter documents what Lithuania’s plan actually says, what it omits, and what it is. The plan assigns Holocaust research authority to the LGGRTC, an institution I have catalogued across nine counts of documented fraud. The plan was adopted by a government sitting in coalition with a convicted antisemite. The plan’s own targets accept that two in five Lithuanians will still hold antisemitic beliefs in 2030. The plan foregrounds 924 rescuers and sidelines 30,000 perpetrators. It is designed for people who do not know these facts.
The letter was copied to the ambassadors of the United States, Israel, and Germany in Vilnius. To the Chairman of Yad Vashem. To the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. To the leadership of the AJC, ADL, Simon Wiesenthal Center, World Jewish Congress, B’nai B’rith, ELNET, and the Claims Conference. To the Board of Rabbis of Southern California. To Congressman Sherman’s office. The full CC list is in the document.
I ask one thing of every Jewish leader on that list. Read the letter. Click the hyperlinks. Then decide whether to accept Lithuania’s next diplomatic invitation.
Lithuania has not answered Congressman Sherman’s three letters. It has not answered the IHRA. It has not answered Yad Vashem’s Chairman, who named Lithuania’s honored perpetrators before 112 members of its own parliament. It has not answered ICAN. It has not answered the Board of Rabbis. But it found time to criminally prosecute a Jewish citizen for a Facebook post at his grandfather’s grave. No major Jewish organization has publicly commented on that prosecution.
I am one person. I have no staff, no budget, no institutional backing. I have funded my own litigation for over three decades. I have never claimed restitution. I do this because 220,000 murdered Lithuanian Jews cannot do it for themselves.
Any Jewish organization that engages with Lithuania’s 157-point plan without first reviewing the documented record does so at the cost of its own credibility. The data is now public. The responsibility shifts.
Lithuania depends on people forgetting. I am asking you to remember.
