£2m in Scots public grants given to arms firms supplying Israel

by garfeel-lzanya

10 comments
  1. Good.

    The world is re-arming.

    We need jobs.

    Beat those plowshears into swords.

  2. It’s going to be needed now Hamas are wanting to attack on all fronts.

  3. Glad to see this is finally out in the open and getting reported in the mainstream press. I’d urge anyone who’s disgusted with our taxes being used to murder children write to their MSP calling for an end to these payments.

  4. We cannot aid Israel in its genocide of the Palestinian people. The thought of public money going towards the killing and maiming of innocent children is horrific.

  5. I’ve always wondered when people talk a companies supplying Israel does that include supplies for the Iron dome?

    If so I support it, this conflict would be a lot bloodier and a lot wider without it

  6. >According to Scottish Enterprise, which says it “does not support the manufacture of munitions”, the £250,000 given to Raytheon in 2023/24 was for research and development into unidentified products.

    >The £150,125 grant given in the same year to Leonardo was also for research and development into an unidentified product.

    >BAE Systems’s surface ships wing received £369,600 in the year for training aid support to assist with “up-skilling of the workforce consistent with a transformation in new ways of constructing naval ships on the Clyde”.

    The link these companies have to be called “arms firms supplying Israel” and “supporting the murder of children” as another commenter here said?

    One manufactures parts of the Iron Dome system, which is used to stop palestinian terrorists hitting innocent Israelies with rockets funded through UNRWA

    The others manufacture parts of the F35s. That’s the link.

    Of course, the children whinging about Scotland supplying the murder of innocent palestinians will not care about the facts here.

  7. If the government has money to fund another countries war then the people are paying far too much in taxes.

  8. We have Israeli customers, some Israelis have committed war crimes. We also send aid to Palestine, some Palestinians use that aid to fund war crimes.

    Arguably, in both cases the good outweighs the bad. Israel can shoot down missiles with Iron Dome, Palestine can feed its kids.

    If we stop dealing with one side, we should stop dealing with both sides. Otherwise we are hypocrites.

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