Josip Jurčević

In April 2012, Jurčević was a panelist at an event discussing freemasonry in Croatia, in which he described society as being organized according to the postulates described in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Jurčević ran as an independent candidate in the 2009 presidential election where he won 2.74% of the vote and was eliminated in the first round.

Josip Jurčević is a member of a Croatian War Veterans Association. The Nacional newspaper described him in 2006 as the new voice of the Croatian right.

According to Christian Axboe Nielsen, associate professor of Southeast European Studies at Aarhus University, Jurčević has a track record of publishing works that explore repression and crimes against Croats while simultaneously also publishing works that deny Croatian crimes, whether during the World War II or during the 1990s, against others. Jurčević has dismissed the systematic and mass atrocities at the Jasenovac concentration camp as a "Serbian myth".

Born in the village of Studenci near the southern town of Imotski, Jurčević grew up in Zagreb. He graduated in history and philosophy from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb in 1975. Josip Jurčević is the father of seven children.

Josip Jurčević (born 1951) is a Croatian historian and politician.

Jurčević is a member of the Society for Research of the Threefold Jasenovac Camp. The NGO claims that the Ustashas ran a labour camp at Jasenovac for enemies of the regime, but it says that the real death camp was run by the Yugoslav Communists, which imprisoned Ustasha members and regular Croatian Home Guard army troops until 1948, then alleged Stalinists until 1951. In television appearances, Jurčević has stated that the camp was not conceived for the systematic murder of people but that it was a "very productive work camp" ("Jasenovac je bio vrlo produktivan radni logor") and that the Ustasha movement was not fascist but was at odds with fascists.