American Jewish Committee

A parliamentary ad hoc commission said on Friday it had found legal grounds to impeach MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis over his antisemitic statements.

Prosecutor General Nida Grunskienė told a parliamentary commission on Wednesday that MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis was interviewed a day earlier in a pre-trial investigation into his potentially antisemitic statements on social media.

Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli, on a visit to Lithuania, says the antisemitic statements of MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis are inconceivable, and is pleased that the Seimas has reacted clearly and unequivocally.

MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis continues to share anti-Jewish statements despite previous outrage from international community and has accused Jews of carrying out a ‘holocaust of Lithuanians’.

Jews were highly important to the Lithuanian state, the country's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said at the Tuesday's meeting with David Harris, the head of the American Jewish Committee.

The Vilnius Sports Palace, which has been built on an old Jewish cemetery, is not an appropriate location for a Museum of Jewish History, says Andrew Baker of the American Jewish Committee.

The American Jewish Committee (AJC) supports the idea of setting up a Jewish history museum in Vilnius.