CAA uncovers social media posts from account of lawyer representing Hamas
Campaign Against Antisemitism’s Online Monitoring and Investigations Unit has uncovered a plethora of inflammatory posts from Fahad Ansari’s X account.
One post read, “Long live the Palestinian resistance,” and “Victory to the intifada.” Intifadas in the past have always been campaigns of terrorist violence, including suicide bombings.
Another post read: “Fact: Hamas has never been more popular around the world than it is today. Why is that? Possibly because people understand that it is the only thing that stands between the Western-backed Israeli genocidal army and the complete eradication of the Palestinian people.”
Another post on the account read: “At this point, Israel could literally set up gas chambers for Palestinians during Ramadan and the genocide enablers in the Western media will be shouting ‘What about Hamas?’ and crying antisemitism if anyone draws a comparison with the Holocaust. Make no mistake, if these people were alive in the 40s, they would have sided with the Nazis.”
According to the International Definition of Antisemitism, “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis” is an example of antisemitism.
Mr Ansari is the Director and Principal Solicitor at Riverway Law, the firm that is currently representing Hamas in a bid to have the group de-proscribed in the UK.
The application is being made to the Home Secretary.
A spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “Judging by what we have uncovered from Fahad Ansari’s X account, he appears to view a bulldozer breaching the border fence between Gaza and Israel on 7th October as ‘one of the most iconic, hopeful images of our time’, hails Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin as a ‘hero’, and, referring to ‘the heroic Palestinian resistance’, expresses hope that ‘every one of their bullets hit their targets’. This rhetoric is stomach-churning, but it befits a lawyer who represents Hamas. It is ludicrous that someone with views like these is permitted to practise in the legal profession. We will be writing to the Solicitors Regulation Authority.”
