In this case, a Jew does not think of his non-Jewish friends as automatically "philo-semitic" (ethnicity having little or nothing to do with friendship).
She wished her non-Jewish friends a merry Christmas.
They had a lot of non-Jewish friends.
On the other hand, Inge's family forbids her to see her non-Jewish friend.
So my father asked that I stay with a non-Jewish friend, Catherine.
Spitzer played amateur soccer and had non-Jewish friends.
After her mother was deported to her death, Edith went underground with false identity papers supplied by a non-Jewish friend.
Also throughout his life he built a circle of friends both Jewish and non-Jewish.
Hartley even wrote to Halpert from Germany, taking a vastly different tone from that he used with his non-Jewish friends.
He escaped before the Ghetto annihilation and hid with his non-Jewish friends at an estate in Mory near the city.