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The exhibit sparked a small demonstration led by Mladen Schwartz, a Croatian nationalist born to Jewish parents. The motto of the gathering was “Jews out of Croatia.”

Have some of Jewish ancestry in Croatia come to hate Jews? Is that the only way they are accepted (as a way of fitting in), or have they been brainwashed?

I don't know Joan what would prompt Mladen Schwarts to take on such a hateful stance, but apaprently Croatia allows such demonstrations of public intolerance, as it does the sale and display of Nazi/Fascist symbols.

In its attempt to cozy up to the West, Coratia has taken a very active role in promoting good relations with its numerically miniscule, but obviously valuable Jewish community of approximately 2,000 people, out of Croatia's almost 5 million population.

In doing so, many Croatians, with some outside help such as Philip Cohen, are trying to rewrite history, and my fear is that gullable editors of various news services such as the one mentioned in my comment, have bought into such lies.

DTA did a marvelous job of replying to the distortions that even recieved thanks from unsuspecting readers.

That's because Mladen Schwartz is actually a Serbian Jew born in Belgrade. Those in Croatian emigre circles pin him early on as an UDBA agent. Croatia's relations with the Jewish commmunity are getting better all the time, as evidenced by the recent Jewish gathering in Dalmatia.

Jewish Croatians led by Hebrang, Stern, and the Goldsteins led the charge to leave Yugoslavia, and the KOS bombing of the Jewish cemetary was quite transparent.

Croatia is a long way from its WW2 past in relation to the Jews. Croatia's Jews, such as the ones mentioned above, are testament to that. Serb agents tried to foment discord for the obvious propaganda points that could have been the result, but Croatia's Jews saw through it quite quickly, much as they see through Mladen Schwartz.

Many Croatians, with outside help such as the Simon Wiesenthal Center's exhibit, will have an opportunity to honestly face their overall WW2 history:

http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/text/x11/xm1103.html
Some six hundred thousand people were murdered at Jasenovac, mostly Serbs, Jews, gypsies, and opponents of the Ustasa regime. The number of Jewish victims was between 20,000 and 25,000, most of whom were murdered there up to August 1942, when deportation of the Croatian Jews to Auschwitz for extermination began. Jews were sent to Jasenovac from all parts of Croatia - from Zagreb, from Sarajevo, and from other cities and smaller towns. On their arrival most were killed at execution sites near the camp: Granik, Gradina, and other places. Those kept alive were mostly skilled at needed professions and trades (doctors, pharmacists, electricians, shoemakers, goldsmiths, and so on) and were employed in services and workshops at Jasenovac. The living conditions in the camp were extremely severe: a meager diet, deplorable accommodations, a particularly cruel regime, and unbelievably cruel behavior by the Ustase guards. The conditions improved only for short periods - during visits by delegations, such as the press delegation that visited in February 1942 and a Red Cross delegation in June 1944.
The acts of murder and of cruelty in the camp reached their peak in the late summer of 1942, when tens of thousands of Serbian villagers were deported to Jasenovac from the area of the fighting against the partisans in the Kozara Mountains. Most of the men were killed at Jasenovac. The women were sent for forced labor in Germany, and the children were taken from their mothers; some were murdered and others were dispersed in orphanages throughout the country.