[I'm bumping this up to the top (original publication time: 1:26). Scroll down for the update.]

Of all the choices in the world, Frank Johansson decides not only that Israel is worthy of such abuse, but that it's perfectly appropriate to say so in a public forum. Talk about losing the thread. A shocking must-read from Tundra Tabloids: Chairman Of Finnish Amnety International Calls Israel A Scum State...

Finland's AI chairman Frank Johansson: Oh I've been to Israel and deem it a scum state. Writing on his blog over at the Finnish tabloid paper, Iltalehti, the chairman of Finnish Amnesty International took to calling Israel a "scum state" while recounting a visit he had with his friend who lives there. Frank Johansson: "A friend of mine who works in Israel, was visiting while piling wood in the shed, we got into his favourite topic. Several years of residence in the holy country, he has come to the conclusion that "Israel is a scum state". On the basis of my own visit, which occurred during the 1970s and 1990s for the final time, I agree." So this "human rights" activist who chairs Finland's AI branch of the international organization, which is supposedly a non-biased, impartial organization, labeled Israelis....scum. The man is a bigot, and an anti-Semite. Would Johansson ever dare to write publically about Saudi Arabia, or any other Muslim nation as a "scum state", or does he, as many other "human rights" organizations do, take aim at Israel, just because he thinks he can get away with it? This dispels the notion that Amnesty International (especially in Filand) is an impartial human rights organization as long as sentiments such as Frank Johansson is allowed to go unanswered by that parent organization. Another point worth noticing, is that Johansson makes that obvious biased, bigoted statement out in the open, without a care in the world that he would be held accountable in the Finnish speaking media and blogosphere...[More.]

It seems that Mr. Johansson is not only blind to any sort of proportionality in the world around him, but he's oblivious to the destruction of his own organization's credibility. Then again, that seems to have been a problem for both AI and Human Rights Watch and quite a few others for some time. TT also points to this post by Dennis Mitzner on the subject: The Upside-down world of Frank Johansson

...Israeli civil society is civilized, democratic and liberal. Israel is a country where murder-rates and domestic violence cases are lower than in Finland. Johansson's willingness to label Israel is nothing short of perverse. Out of all the rogue states in the world Johansson decides to choose the only democracy in the Middle East. I wonder what scale Johansson is using in determining the scum-states of this world...

He goes on to give an example.

We await reaction from Amnesty central.

Update: The Jerusalem Post has spoken to Johansson and he isn't backing off one bit: Amnesty Int'l Finland: Israel scum state