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Palestine Action documentary makers fear being criminalised under anti-terror laws

Exclusive: Directors of To Kill a War Machine take legal advice as Home Office plans to proscribe protest group

The online release of To Kill a War Machine was brought forward to this week after it emerged that the Home Office was going to proscribe the protest group, which takes direct action against Israeli arms companies in the UK. Since Tuesday, the documentary about their activities has been downloaded by people all over the world, but its directors have been scrambling to take legal advice and fear they will end up being in breach of counter-terror laws if they continue distributing it. To Kill a War Machine was the product of more than six months of work and was made independently of Palestine Action, while using real-time bodycam and phone footage that the group had put into the public domain.

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