CROATIAN JEWS WON'T DEMAND BAN ON SALE OF "PROTOCOLS"

ZAGREB, Sept 10 (Hina) - The leader of the Jewish community in Croatia, Ognjen Kraus, issued a statement on Tuesday in connection with the recent publication of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in Zagreb. Kraus said that the Jewish community in Croatia "will not demand from the Croatian authorities to ban the sale of that publication. In principle, we are against repression which is characteristic of totalitarian regimes, and we support democracy and the critical public in all fields of life." Kraus described the Protocols as "an antisemitic pamphlet" and "a symbol of evil and genocide over the Jews in this century. In one hundred years of their existence they have done incalculable human, spiritual and material damage to the Jews and Jewry." The statement concluded by stressing the need for the Croatian Parliament to pass a law banning the publication of neo-Nazi literature, spreading of Ustasha iconography and inciting of inter-ethnic hatred. (hina) vm 102126 MET sep 96