IN PERTH AND HELSINKI: STANDING WITH ISRAEL…” I CHERISH AND LOVE EVERYTHING ISRAEL REPRESENTS”

Posted By on September 20th, 2011

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“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.

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