CAA reacts to legal case to de-proscribe Hamas: “Our initial review of the so-called ‘Hamas case’ is that the submission is amateurish and desperate.”

Yesterday, it was announced that law firm Riverway Law is representing the antisemitic genocidal terror group Hamas in a bid to get the group de-proscribed in the UK.

The application is being made to the Home Secretary.

Gideon Falter, Chief Executive of Campaign Against Antisemitism, said: “Our initial review of the so-called ‘Hamas case’ is that the submission is amateurish and desperate. It demonstrates that Hamas is struggling by any means necessary to stay afloat as pressure is brought to bear on the murderous Islamist group. If Hamas is no longer proscribed, it can be funded from the UK.

“It’s a grotesque irony that the case to de-proscribe Hamas is being made as a human rights claim. Yes, a group that has deprived well in excess of a thousand Jews of their lives and two million Gazans of their safety is basing its appeal on human rights. The case argues that the proscription of Hamas deprives British citizens of their rights to freedom of expression and protest.

“But haven’t we been told for a year and a half that all the protesters on our streets and elsewhere are not terrorist sympathisers? So whose rights are being curtailed, exactly? Are there people in Britain who are desperate to be able to reveal that they support Hamas and its aspiration to annihilate the Jewish people? This case appears to rest on the claim that there are.

“The courts must stand firm against Islamist antisemitism, and the Home Secretary must take seriously what this claim represents.”