{"id":696507,"date":"2026-07-17T11:17:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696507\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:17:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:17:20","slug":"scottish-premiere-for-film-on-how-uk-treated-palestine-activists-as-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696507\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish premiere for film on how UK treated Palestine activists as terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Operation Recomply<\/a>, from award-winning film-maker Alex Grace, uses interviews with families and loved ones to examine how the UK state has handled the case of the activists who broke into an Elbit Systems weapons factory near Bristol in August 2024.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n Six people broke into the factory, but ultimately another 19 were charged in connection with the break-in following a counter-terrorism exercise code-named Operation Recomply. They are known as the \u201cFilton 25\u201d.\n<\/p>\n

\n Eleven months after the break-in, in July 2025, Palestine<\/a> Action was proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the Labour Government, and members of the Filton 25 face being sentenced as terrorists despite not being charged with terrorism offences and the jury not being informed of any alleged \u201cterror connection\u201d.\n<\/p>\n

\n Elbit Systems is Israel\u2019s largest weapons manufacturer and has close ties to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) which is accused of perpetrating a genocide in Gaza<\/a> as well as abetting breaches of international law elsewhere in Palestine.\n<\/p>\n

\n READ MORE: Israeli state ‘is leading ethnic cleansing in Palestine’, report finds<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n Grace\u2019s new film Operation Recomply is said to coincide \u201cwith a first in British legal history: four young defendants were sentenced under terrorism-related frameworks despite not being charged with or convicted of terrorism offences\u201d.\n<\/p>\n

\n A release explaining the documentary goes on: \u201cTold through the eyes of Filton 24’s loved ones, the film documents their fight for justice as the state escalates its crackdown on the pro-Palestine movement.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cFamily members not only lived with the constant fear of not knowing when \u2013 or if \u2013 their loved ones would return home, but also experienced violent house raids, including the arrest of a defendant\u2019s mother by counter-terrorism police.\n<\/p>\n

\n READ MORE: Israel ramps up strikes in Gaza as child and police killed<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cBail applications were repeatedly refused, while some defendants spent nearly two years imprisoned before trial \u2013 four times the usual six-month legal limit.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n The documentary\u2019s Scottish premiere will be in Edinburgh<\/a>\u2019s Out of the Blue Drill Hall on Friday, July 17. The screening will begin at 7pm, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with Grace and acquitted Filton defendant Zoe Rogers.\n<\/p>\n

\n Then, on Wednesday July 22, there will be a second Scottish showing at the Glasgow Film Theatre<\/a>. The screening will begin at 8.15pm.\n<\/p>\n

\n You can find more information and purchase tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Operation Recomply, from award-winning film-maker Alex Grace, uses interviews with families and loved ones to examine how the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-696507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}