Friends of Palestine Western Australia (FOPWA)

National rallies across Australia demanded that Australia cut ties with Israel, as per the International Criminal Court鈥檚聽arrest warrant for alleged war crimes.聽聽

Group shot, Perth rally for Palestine

Chanting "Free, free Palestine" and "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free", protesters protested聽Israel's聽 slaughter of Palestinian refugees.聽Alex Bainbridge reports.

If imitation is the greatest form of flattery, Friends of Palestine (WA 鈥 FOPWA) must be doing something right: Friends of Israel (WA) was launched on August 8. The group鈥檚 website is a mix of nationalism and barely concealed racism. 鈥淚srael is in the front lines of the global battle between those who love life and those who glorify death鈥, it says. The launch took place at the Victory Life Centre, a fundamentalist Christian church, in Osborne Park, Perth.