Note: DefendingHistory.com has proposed Seven Solutions to Lithuanian-Jewish Relations.

‘The Debate’

Raphael Ahren in Haaretz (13 Feb 2009)
Dov Levin in Haaretz (24 Feb 2009)
Milan Chersonski in Jerusalem of Lithuania (March 2009)
Isi Leibler in the Jerusalem Post (16 Dec 2009)
Efraim Zuroff in the Jerusalem Post (22 Dec 2009)
Barry Rubin in the Jerusalem Post (29 Dec 2009)
Barry Rubin in Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs (June 2010)
Ricky Ben-David in the Jerusalem Post (5 Aug 2010)
Barry Rubin in the Jerusalem Post (13 Aug 2010)
Efraim Zuroff in the Jerusalem Post (27 Aug 2010)
Sara Miller in Haaretz (12 Oct 2010)
Discussion in response to Barry Rubin:
Jan Grabowski — Juliana Geran Pilon — Dovid Katz — John S. Micgiel
in the Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs (Nov 2010)
Dovid Katz on Alfa.lt (15 Nov 2010)
Efraim Zuroff in the Jerusalem Post (19 Dec 2010)
Yisrael Rosenson on Arutz Sheva (24 Dec 2010)
Efraim Zuroff on Arutz Sheva (26 Dec 2010)
Yisrael Rosenson on Arutz Sheva (28 Dec 2010)
Efraim Zuroff on Arutz Sheva (30 Dec 2010)
Efraim Zuroff on Ynet (31 Dec 2010) [Hebrew]
Efraim Zuroff on Ynet (4 January 2011) [English]

Association of Lithuanian Jews to Energy Minister Uzi Landau (25 January 2012)

Raphael Ahren in The Times of Israel (9 March 2012)
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2012

9 March 2012. The Times of Israel: ‘Nazi hunter leads criticism of Lieberman for cordially hosting Lithuanian FM’ by Raphael Ahren.

5 March 2012. YNet: ‘Holocaust survivors rally against Lithuanian FM’ by Gilad Morag.

5 March 2012. Haaretz: ‘Lithuania hypocritical about Holocaust’ by Efraim Zuroff [letter to the editor].

25 January 2012. Letter from the Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel to EnergyMinister Uzi Landau.

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2011

29 June 2011. ‘Where does Yad Vashem stand on East European double-game double-genocide Holocaust politics?’ on DefendingHistory.com.

6 June 2011. ‘Yad Vashem slated to join revisionist Holocaust conference in Lithuanian Parliament’ on DefendingHistory.com.

12 May 2011. Deputy Israeli foreign minister Danny Ayalon gives videogtaped interview in Vilnius on the opening of an Israeli honorary consulate.

4 January 2011. ‘Lithuania’s lie and Israel’s silence. Op-ed: Lithuania claiming that Communist crimes equivalent to those of the Nazis’ on Ynet (by Efraim Zuroff).

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2010

31 December 2010. ‘Lithuania’s lie and Israel’s silence’ on Ynet (by Efraim Zuroff) [in Hebrew].

30 December 2010. ‘Debate Goes On: Nazi Hunter Zuroff vs Researcher Rabbi Rosenson’ on Arutz Sheva (by Efraim Zuroff).

28 December 2010. ‘Part III: Rosenson denies Zuroff’s accusations on Lithuania on Arutz Sheva.

26 December 2010. ‘Dr Efraim Zuroff, Nazi hunter: Lithuania has not changed’ on Arutz Sheva (by Efraim Zuroff).

24 December 2010. ‘Is Lithuania sincere about owning up to its Holocaust role?’ on Arutz Sheva (by David Lev).

19 December 2010. ‘Take Lithuania to task’ in the Jerusalem Post (by Efraim Zuroff).

15 December 2010. ‘An open letter to the prime minister of Lithuania on the eve of his visit to Israel’ on Alfa.lt (by Dovid Katz).

November 2010. [Discussion in response to Barry Rubin:] in the Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs (by Jan Grabowski, Juliana Geran Pilon, Dovid Katz, John S. Micgiel).

12 October 2010. ‘Lithuania woos Israel, in the shadow of the Holocaust’ in Haaretz (by Sara Miller).

20 September 2010. ‘Joseph Melamed, chairman of ALJ, speaks out forcefully at Yad Vashem event to mark anniversary of Vilna Ghetto Liquidation’ on HITB.

27 August 2010. ‘Right of reply: A threat to Holocaust memory’ in the Jerusalem Post (by Efraim Zuroff).

13 August 2010. ‘Those who neglect their past have no future’ in the Jerusalem Post (by Barry Rubin).

5 August 2010. ‘Digging up the future’ in the Jerusalem Post (by Ricky Ben-David). As PDF. Russian version.

15 July 2010. Association of Lithuanian Jews calls for boycott of the Lithuanian prime minister’s ‘Litvak Forum’.

2 July 2010. ‘Estonian president obfuscated Holocaust during Jerusalem visit; marchers honor SS’ on HITB.

26 June 2010. ‘Brazauskas dies; a giant of modern Lithuania who embraced all his country’s peoples’ on HITB. Israel related references include his 1995 speech before the Knessetand Daiva Repeckaite’s interview with Yeshayahu Epstein of Tel Aviv.

8 June 2010. ‘Unfinished Business and Unexploited Opportunities: Central and Eastern Europe, Jews, and the Jewish State’ in Israel Journal of Affairs 4.2: 37-47 (by Barry Rubin).

9 March 2010. ‘Yitzhak Arad, survivor, resistance fighter, and major Holocaust scholar, wins book award in New York City’ on HITB.

8 February 2010. ‘Vilnius Prosecutors “visit” Lithuanian Jewish Community on Holocaust Remembrance Day, questioning ties to Survivor in Tel Aviv who is the latest to be “investigated”‘ on HITB.

1 February 2010. ‘President of Croatia honors Dr Efraim Zuroff in Zagreb’ on HITB.

27 January 2010. Mass circulation paper attacks the Jewish community of Lithuania (over Gaza) on Holocaust Remembrance Day.

25 January 2010. ‘Remembering accurately on International Holocaust Remembrance Day’ in the Jerusalem Post(by Yehuda Bauer).

10 January 2010. ‘When cooperation fails’ in the Jerusalem Post (by Efraim Zuroff).

3 January 2010. ‘On human suffering’ in the Jerusalem Post (by Shimon Samuels). Alternate link.

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2009

29 December 2009. ‘Right of reply: Our suffering should be the basis for cooperation, not competition’ in the Jerusalem Post (by Barry Rubin).

23 December 2009. ‘Of insult and mockery’ by Efraim Zuroff in the Jerusalem Post (by Efraim Zuroff).

23 December 2009. ‘German parliamentarian wins award in Jerusalem, blasts the “Prague Declaration”‘ on HITB.

17 December 2009. ‘Lithuania’s Shoah Analogy sparks fury’ in the Jerusalem Post(by Benny Weinthal).

16 December 2009. ‘Candidly speaking: far more negative, far more dangerous’ in the Jerusalem Post (by Isi Leibler).

15 December 2009. ‘Holocaust survivors [in Tel Aviv] call on Global Forum to condemn the “Prague Declaration” on HITB.

9 December 2009. ‘US Congress protests Lithuanian government campaign against Rachel Margolis and other Holocaust survivors who joined the anti-Nazi resistance’ on HITB.

9 December 2009. ‘Lithuanian Foreign Minister, on eve of Jerusalem visit, explains his view of “red and brown”‘ on HITB.

14 November 2009. ‘Shimon Peres attacked for holding Nazi and Soviet crimes to be different’ on HITB.

28 October 2009. ‘Rachel Margolis turns 88′ on HITB.

25 October 2009. On the eve of Rachel Margolis’s 88th birthday on 28 October, Israeli Embassy chargé d’affaires in Riga, Liat Wexelman, issues a letter of greetings.

23 June 2009. ‘The Baltic project to delete the Holocaust from European history. Observations from Lithuania’ at the Institute for Global Jewish Affairs (by Dovid Katz). Synopsis.

19 June 2009. Israel’s ambassador to Latvia and Lithuania, HE Chen Ivri Apter is the keynote speaker and presents Dr Margolis with a certificate from his embassy. Speakers include Professor Israel Bartal, Professor Dov Levin (both Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Professor Dovid Katz (Vilnius University), and chairman of the event Daniel Galay, director of Leivick House. A group of children studying Yiddish with Hannah Polin Galay made a presentation to Dr Margolis. The hall was packed. Reports on HITB and the Leivick House website.