Posted on 08/26/2010 1:49:37 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
On Monday the head of Finland’s branch of Amnesty International, Frank Johansson, termed Israel a “scum state.” Writing in his blog, which appears on the Web site of Iltalehti, one of Finland’s largest newspapers, he based his characterization of Israel on his “own visit[s], which occurred during the 1970s and for the last time in the 1990s.” Johansson further justified his rhetoric toward Israel because he has previously invoked strong language against former Pres. George Bush on Finnish TV. He called Mr. Bush “the biggest executioner in the Western Hemisphere.”
Turning Israel and the United States into whipping boys is hardly new territory among human-rights NGOs, but now a high-level official of AI has exposed his pathological obsession with rejecting Western democratic values. His biological language mirrors that of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who calls Israel a “cancer” that needs to be “removed.”
Once Johansson was caught with both hands deep in the anti-Semitic cookie jar, he offered the defense that “I am writing those [blogs] in my capacity as a private person, not as an Amnesty official.” However, on Iltalehti’s Web site, his title as “director of the Finnish branch of Amnesty International” appears above his blog.
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Most Americans can't begin to understand that raging antisemitism that boils just under the surface in Europe.
Amnesty International is a scum organization.
Amnesty International. What a bunch of pro-Islamist bigots.
Amnesty International is a cesspool of evil!
I thought people were reaching in the past but the Ezekial 38-40 scenario sure is gaining some credibility for our times.
That is just plain ugly. What a hateful, ignorant and (not least) unprofessional thing to say. Obama won’t be president forever; may this bigot live to rue the day he said something so self-incriminating.
Same side as most Jews in this country?
My wife’s brother is a member of AI.
He is about the most racist, anti-semetic, Anti-America maggot that I have ever had the displeasure to know. He is also a raging libtard Dean of a Seminary.
He is also persona non grata in this house.
Her choice.
Amnesty International is a cesspool of evil!
God will explain to them what Israel means to Him one day and it won’t be pretty.
The rhetoric has gotten incredibly out of hand. At some point it will explode into violence, and not just an isolated incident.
Just a wing of the UN..
Well Obama’s pastor who “was” a Muslim is very close to Farrakhan. They have said worse but 70+% of American (liberal) Jews voted for O and most still love The Imam.
Finland was the first NAZI ally to persecute Jews.
Do we support these vermin with our tax dollars???
I’ve spent some time studying in Germany, and I can’t agree that in Germany at least, there is a common “raging antisemitism that boils just under the surface.” Every German I spoke with about WWII acknowledged and was ashamed of the Nazi era and the Holocaust—and bent over backwards not to be offensive to Jewish people.
I do believe there is raging anti-Semitism amidst certain left-leaning elites...the kind who work for Amnesty, but in Germany at least, I saw a very serious sense of national remorse for the sins of their fathers.
Germany might be the exception, although i would be curious if you ever engaged in conversations with Germans about contemporary Israeli policy.
I have lived in Italy (where I found almost none as well), the Netherlands, the UK and for a short time France. In the Netherlands and especially France, I found antisemitism quite pronounced.
This is why they are called Am-Nasty International.
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