Sunday January 11, 2025, To Kill a War Machine (2025) * 1h 17min * in English * door opens at 20:00 * intro & first film starts at 20:30 * free entrance.
Documentary about activists from Palestine Action targeting British complicity with Israeli apartheid, how Elbit was shut down. Through real-time bodycam and phone footage, frontline activists take audiences along on their audacious raids to tear down arms factories around the UK. For many years, Palestine Action has taken consistent direct action against Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms firm. A once quiet killer which operates across Britain has become a better known target of the Palestine solidarity movement.
In July 2025, the British government proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist group under the UK’s Terrorism Act 2000 after members of the network spray-painted Royal Air Force aircraft at Brize Norton. Palestine Action dissolved following the ban, but its supporters and former members continue to take legal action to reverse its proscription.
On 20 October, a press release was issued by Prisoners4Palestine stating that on 2 November 2025, the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, activists held pending trial for actions would start on a hunger strike. The eight hunger strikers are members of the ‘Filton 24’ and ‘Brize Norton 5’ who are being held on remand. All of them are expected to be held in detention for more than a year before their trial date. Lawyers for Palestine Action have said the group can be compared to the suffragettes. Huda Ammori the co-founder of Palestine Action has said the “votes-for-women movement” would have faced the same ban, if today’s terrorism laws had been in place more than 100 years ago.
On 6 January 2026, Heba Muraisi is reported to have difficulty breathing after 65 days on hunger strike. Teuta Hoxha and Kamran Ahmad are still on hunger strike.
Since July 2025, there would have been over 2700 arrests in various demonstrations and protests.
Film night at Joe’s Garage, cozy cinema! Free entrance. You want to screen a movie, let us know: joe [at] lists [dot] squat [dot] net
