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.

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.”