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20 September 2025
Vol. XVII, No. 5858
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Issues

  • Blaming the Victims
  • Responses
  • Holocaust Obfuscation / Double Genocide (Europe)
  • Opposition
  • Soviet Crimes
  • Red-Brown Iconography
  • Definition of Genocide
  • Holocaust Obfuscation / Double Genocide (Baltics)
  • Critiques
  • Glorification of Local Holocaust Perpetrators
  • Collaborator Dry-Clean
  • Nazi Adoration
  • Swastika Sanitization
  • War Criminals
  • Rehabilitations
  • Freedom of Speech
  • 2 Years in Jail
  • 3 Years in Jail
  • Citizenship

Solutions

  • 7 Solutions
  • Bold Citizens
  • Litvak Studies
  • Holocaust Studies
  • Honoring the Rescuers
  • Seventy Years Declaration

Sections (Dated Articles)

  • Antisemitism and Bias
  • Balčiūnas’s Page 
  • Books
  • Collaborators Glorified
  • Democracy
  • Double Games
  • Double Genocide
  • Estonia
  • Events
  • History
  • Hungary
  • Identity Theft ‘Litvaks’
  • Latvia
  • Litvak Culture
  • Media Watch
  • Milan Chersonski
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Per Anders Rudling
  • Politics of Memory
  • Seventy Years Declaration
  • South Africa
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  • Yivo’s Reversible Decline

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The Baltic Holocaust

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