Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
11 February
ISRAELI MILITARY TRAINERS QUIT SCOTLAND AFTER EXPOSÉ
On this day in 2008, SPSC exposed a company called 360 Defence, based in Helensburgh, who claimed to use trainers “still active in Units and services” in Israeli Special Forces to deliver courses across Scotland, including in Edinburgh at “the Police Club, 28 York Place”. The company boasted that “all training is based on real world experience...such as operations in the Israeli Occupied territories”. Following the exposure and visits to Helensburgh, the company relocated to Mitcham Road, Croydon, South London.
غادر المدربون العسكريون الإسرائيليون اسكتلندا بعد كشف هويتهم
11 فبراير
في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 2008 ، كشفت حملة التضامن الاسكتلندية مع فلسطين عن شركة تدعى الدفاع 360 ، ومقرها في هيلينسبرة ، والتي ادعت أنها تستخدم مدربين "لا يزالوا نشطين في الخدمة" في القوات الخاصة الإسرائيلية لتقديم دورات عبر اسكتلندا ، بما في ذلك إدنبرة في "نادي الشرطة 28 يورك بليس ". تفاخرت الشركة بأن "كل التدريب يعتمد على خبرة ميدانية حقيقية ... مثل العمليات في الأراضي الفلسطينية تحت الاحتلال الإسرائيلي". بعد الكشف عن هوية الشركة وزيارات الناشطين الى هيلينسبرة انتقلت الشركة إلى شارع ميتشام ، كرويدون.
Israeli company 360 Defence, previously of Helensburgh
- uses trainers from Israeli Special Forces
- delivers course in Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen, Inverness & Edinburgh (at ‘the Police Club, 28 York Place’)
- trains Scottish Police forces
- claims its ‘Instructors are still active in Units and services in Israel’
- offers ‘direct tuition from visiting Israeli Instructors’ who receive regular ‘direct training in Israel’
- boast that ‘All training is based on real world experience...such as the 2006 Lebanon War and operations in the Israeli Occupied territories’
The Head of 360 Defence training, Amnon Maor:
- was head instructor of ‘counter-terrorism warfare for the Israeli Army & Police’
- served in ‘one of the elite counter-terrorism units of the Israel Police’ which he joined ‘In 1988, at the onset of the intifada (the Palestinian uprising)
- billed himself as an ‘international terrorism expert’
- Maor is a graduate of Israeli death squads and an army notorious for human rights violations, including murder, massacre, torture, kidnapping, and even