(24 Jan 2017)
Croatia's Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic pledged Tuesday to do more to fight anti-Semitism following a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem.
Plenkovic is on a two-day visit to the Middle East.
He is expected to travel to the West Bank and meet Palestinian officials during this trip.
Croatia has often come under criticism for not coming to terms with its past and distancing itself from armed forces allied to Nazi Germany.
Most recently the criticism resurfaced after an school exhibition about the Holocaust and diarist Anne Frank was taken down in the Croatian town of Sibenik following complaints that it painted some war-time Croats in a bad light.
Plenkovic did not make a direct comment about the exhibition but he pledged to fight Holocaust-deniers with renewed vigour.
Earlier in the day Plenkovic met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This is his first visit to the region as prime minister

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