A pro-Israel organization wants Canadians to know it appreciates the strong relationship between Canada and the Jewish nation.

StandWithUS is a pro-Israel organization that since 2007 has been erecting billboards throughout the U.S. in response to anti-Israel ads intended to primarily erode financial U.S. support for Israel. The anti-Israel ads are part of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, which is bent on the destruction of Israel. The ads from StandWithUS go up as soon as the anti-Israel ones come down and specifically to counter the message.

Lately, however, StandWithUS has erected ads that aren't in response to a specific anti-Israel ad. Gary Ratner, StandWithUs senior executive, says they will put up a billboard in Toronto for four weeks beginning on June 29.

"Clearly, the Canadian government and Prime Minister [Stephen] Harper and Foreign Minister [John] Baird are probably two of the strongest supporters of Israel in the world," Ratner tells OneNewsNow. "But on a local level and especially on campuses, the atmosphere is very bad.

"I mean the BDS movement is probably stronger on Canadian campuses than it is on American campuses," he continues. "So there's always this small, hardcore group of people who are anti-Israel and, because they're well organized and well-funded, can kind of run the debate unless you can counter them ...."

In October 2013, the first Canadian StandWithUs billboards were placed in the Vancouver subway system directly responding to inaccurate anti-Israel ads aimed at eroding support for Israel.

StandWithUs has chapters throughout the U.S., and in Israel, the U.K., and Canada.