"I Cherish & Love Everything Israel Represents in the Middle East": Friends In The South ... and Friends In The North

On 17 September in Perth, the most isolated city in the Southern Hemisphere, on the Swan River in Western Australia, some 300 Israel-supporters of diverse backgrounds gathered to express their solidarity with Israel and their opposition to the iniquitous BDS campaign.

Here are video clips of a couple of speakers at the event, showing first the president of Australian Young Labor, and then the president of the Young Liberals, who to cheers declares:

"Im not an Israeli and I'm not a Jew, but I cherish and love everything Israel represents in the Middle East."

 Read more here.

And forget, for a moment, the hostility for Jews and Israel that's so prevalent elsewhere in Scandinavia, at any rate in Norway and in the Swedish city of Malmo.  There was a rally in Helsinski last week by about 1000 Christian supporters of Israel, who voiced their opposition to a divided Jerusalem and called upon their government not to vote for the Palestinian statehood bid at the UN. 

Read more, with a translation, on Tundra Tabloids, but here's brief video footage of the event.