Amnesty ordförande i Finland i blåsväder

Frank Johansson, ordförande för Amnesty International i Finland har råkat i blåsväder. I en bloggartikel kallade han Israel för en skurkstat. Bloggen Tundra Tabloid översatte Johanssons uttalande till engelska och Jerusalem Post tog kontakt med Johansson som i en intervju höll fast vid vad han skrivit. På en fråga om han kunde ge exmpel på andra skurkstater svarade han nekande.
Bloggartikeln har av någon orsak nu tagits bort.
Amnesty har ibland kritiserats för att ensidigt kritisera Israel och dylika uttalanden ökar naturligtvis inte förtroendet för organisationen.

Tundra Tabloids rapport här: CHAIRMAN OF FINNISH AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CALLS ISRAEL A SCUM STATE.......

Jerusalem Post intervju med Johansson här: Amnesty Int'l Finland: Israel scum state

Frank Johanssons blogginlägg här: TUNDRA TABLOIDS MENTIONED IN TODAY'S EDITION OF THE J'LEM POST AS AMNESTY HEAD SHOVES OWN POST DOWN THE MEMORY HOLE.......

och här originalet på finska: Israel on nilkkimaa

Frank Johansson verkar inte ha besökt Israel på närmare 20 år. Han skulle ha en del att lära av Tony Blair som varit där ganska ofta. Såhär säger han om Johanssons skurkstat:
Blair: Delegitimization of Israel is affront to humanity
To delegitimize Israel is an affront not only to Israelis, but to those “everywhere, in every part of humanity, who share the values of a free and independent human spirit,” Quartet envoy Tony Blair said on Tuesday, in an exceptionally warm speech at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.Blair, the keynote speaker at a conference on the delegitimization of Israel, said the best answer to those who sought to delegitimize the Jewish state “lies in the character of Israel itself, in the openness, fairmindedness and creativity of the Israelis.”

There were two forms of the delegitimization of Israel, Blair said. The first was “traditional, obvious and, from certain quarters, expected,” and came from those who openly attacked Israel’s right to exist. Pointing to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as an example, he said that his form of delegitimization – calling for Israel to be wiped off the map – was easier to deal with “because it is so clear.”
The more pernicious form, however, was not as open, and came from those who were unwilling to recognize that Israel had a legitimate point of view, Blair said.“The issue of delegitimization is not simply about an overt denial of Israel’s right to exist. It is the advocating of prejudice in not allowing that Israel has a point of view that should be listened to,” he asserted.Blair said that “a consistent conversation I have with some, but by no means all, of my European colleagues, is to argue not to apply rules to the government of Israel that they would never dream of applying to their own governments or their own countries