The ‘Hamas case’, and what it means
Three British lawyers have announced that they are representing Hamas, the antisemitic genocidal terror group, in an application to have it removed from the list of proscribed terrorist organisations in the UK.
We will not let this happen and our lawyers are on the case.
Our assessment 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.
The lawyers bringing the case are understood to have been instructed by Musa Abu Marzouk, a Hamas leader who, in addition to his role in Hamas, is alleged to have provided funds to some of the 9/11 hijackers and has spent time in a US prison. He is also reportedly a billionaire, like several other Hamas leaders who have dubiously enriched themselves while Gazans languish in poverty under Hamas’ tyrannical rule.
In a particularly grotesque irony, the case to de-proscribe Hamas is being made as a human rights claim. In other words, a group that has deprived well in excess of a thousand Jews of their lives and some two million Gazans of their safety is basing its appeal on human rights.
Specifically, the case argues that the proscription of Hamas deprives British citizens of their rights to freedom of expression and protest.
Of course, we’ve been told for a year and a half that all the protesters on our streets and the activists who have spent months intimidating Jews on campuses, in cultural institutions 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.
What does the application say?
The so-called legal case to is essentially 500 pages of propaganda dressed up as law. Here are some of the most outrageous lies — and the truth.
📣 1. “Hamas does not target British citizens either in the UK or anywhere else.”
❌ False. British citizens were murdered and taken hostage on 7th October. Hamas has never distinguished by nationality—only that the target is Jewish or Israeli.
📣 2. “We reject any allegations that we are antisemitic or that we target Jewish people.”
❌ Absurd. Hamas’s founding charter calls for the murder of Jews. It cites The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Its leaders regularly incite against Jews as a people, not ‘just’ Israelis.
📣 3. “Knife attacks against occupying Israeli soldiers” are described as “low-level violence.”
❌ Knife attacks are attempted murder. Trying to rebrand stabbings as minor unrest tells you everything you need to know about the moral compass behind this submission.
📣 4. One effect of the prolonged Israeli occupation…has been to stifle Palestinian democracy.
❌ No. Hamas has ruled Gaza since 2007. It overthrew its rivals in a violent coup and hasn’t held elections in nearly 20 years. That’s on Hamas, not Israel.
📣 5. The UK is complicit in genocide, colonialism and occupation.
❌ This isn’t legal argument—it’s radical propaganda. The submission accuses Britain of war crimes. Is this what a serious legal case looks like?
📣 6. Hamas is comparable to the ANC.
❌ Nelson Mandela’s ANC rejected violence against civilians and built a democratic, multi-racial South Africa. Hamas glorifies terror, preaches antisemitism and rejects peace. The comparison is a disgrace.
📣 7. Proscription has a chilling effect on political engagement.
❌ No it doesn’t. You can campaign for Palestinian rights, criticise Israel, or support a two-state solution. What you can’t do is promote a terrorist group that rapes, tortures and kills civilians.
The bottom line?
The Hamas case is a bad-faith attempt to mainstream genocidal antisemitism.
The UK is right to ban Hamas — and this sham of a submission only proves why it must stay banned.
The courts must stand firm against Islamist antisemitism, and the Home Secretary must take seriously what this claim represents.
We are writing to the Home Secretary with a brief on why the application must be refused, and we will take the matter to court if necessary.
We have also contacted the companies hosting the ‘Hamas case’ website, to have it taken down.
You can read an op-ed article that our Chief Executive wrote about the Hamas case for LBC here.
What of the lawyers behind the application?
The solicitor representing Hamas is Fahad Ansari, the Director and Principal Solicitor at Riverway Law.
Our Online Monitoring and Investigations Unit has uncovered numerous diabolical social posts media from his X (Twitter) account.
He seems to find a bulldozer breaching the border fence between Gaza and Israel on 7th October to be “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”, hopes that “every one of their bullets hit their targets”.
He has also downplayed the brutality of the 7th October attack, mocked the hostages and referred to deceased Hamas leaders as “martyrs”.
We will be writing to the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
Why did the police just stand by?
A march took place on Saturday in a residential area of Southend, Essex, which has a Jewish community. The march passed one synagogue directly, and passed within the close vicinity of other synagogues.
Essex Police should never have permitted this hateful procession through the heart of a small Jewish community, as families walked home from synagogue after Sabbath prayers during Passover. Not only did police allow this march, despite it apparently being organised without the required legal notice, they took minimal action as marchers shouted ‘Stop killing children’ — a chilling echo of medieval blood libels — and openly displayed support for terrorist organisations banned in the UK.
Protesting a conflict thousands of miles away had no place in a quiet residential neighbourhood; this was, in reality, a demonstration targeting Jews.
A volunteer from our Demonstration and Event Monitoring Unit was assaulted for filming the march, yet police failed to intervene. The few arrests made were far too little, too late, as another Jewish community in the UK was intimidated into staying indoors while police stood by inertly.
The Government has not acted to compel police to enforce the law robustly. British Jews were abandoned by authorities who appear increasingly unwilling to protect their Jewish citizens, allowing extremist mobs to act with impunity.
“Well done Israel, Hitler would be proud.”
A Metropolitan Police officer has been dismissed without notice and placed on the College of Policing barred list after sharing what his own force described as “antisemitic and grossly offensive” content on social media.
In the days after the 7th October 2023 terrorist attack, DC Ibrahim Khan took to Instagram to post:
- An image comparing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler alongside the text, “The irony of becoming what you once hated.”
- A graphic juxtaposing a mass grave from 1945 with what was claimed to be a mass grave in Gaza.
- The text: “Well done Israel, Hitler would be proud.”
According to the International Definition of Antisemitism, “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis” is an example of antisemitism.
Police said that Mr Khan also made several posts suggesting that the events of the 7th October attack “were a fabrication”.
While the Met has taken action against Mr Khan, it is worrying that he was ever in a position of authority to begin with.
Campaign Against Antisemitism calls for terrorism charges against Abu Wadei
After we revealed that Mosab Abdulkarim Al-Gassas (Abu Wadei), who recently arrived to Britain by dinghy, was part of a Hamas-endorsed unit responsible for violence on the Gaza-Israel border and used antisemitic rhetoric at foreign rallies and online, he was arrested by British authorities on immigration charges.
Last week he was denied bail at a court hearing.
In addition, our solicitors have written to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) calling for terrorism charges to be added to the charge sheet.
We believe that Mr Al-Gassas has committed serious offences and that it is in the interests of national security to bring a prosecution. Failure to do so risks signalling that Britain is a safe haven for terrorists. We cannot be a soft touch.
The only way to deter more Islamist extremists from entering our country is to ensure that the extremists already arriving here face the full force of the law. We have offered the CPS any assistance to help their assessment of the charges.
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Campaign Against Antisemitism puts the spotlight on the International Committee of the Red Cross
As the Jewish community prepared to celebrate Passover, a festival commemorating Jewish liberation, our thoughts were – and still are – with the 59 hostages being held hostage in the captivity of antisemitic genocidal Hamas terrorists.
Much of the international response to the plight of these hostages has been lacklustre and vapid, with empty promises to take action with no follow-through.
Among the pitiful responses has been that of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
This organisation is dedicated to “ensuring humanitarian protection and assistance for people affected by armed conflict and other violence”. When it comes to the hostages, however, the world has borne witness to its apparent indifference.
Many in the Jewish world no longer regard the ICRC as much more than a glorified taxi service, sitting aside for months as hostages languish in abominable conditions and then patiently waiting as psychopathic terrorists parade their traumatised captives onstage in grotesque ceremonies before carting them away as though nothing had happened.
The ICRC claims that “for the hostages in Gaza, the Red Cross is neutral” but denies being mere “bystanders”. Tell that to the families of the hostages longing for their loved ones to come home. Tell that to the Jewish people waiting for their brethren to return.
ICRC, we say to you: let my people go!
As we battle lawyers who seem to want us to imagine that a group of genocidal antisemites did not massacre innocent Jews in the present Middle East, this week we are also remembering how another group of genocidal antisemites murdered untold numbers of innocent Jews in wartime Europe.
As the Jewish world commemorates Yom HaShoah v’HaGevurah (The Day of the Holocaust and the Heroism), we honour their memory by fighting to ensure that the antisemitic hate that the victims and survivors of the Holocaust endured does not prevail in our day.
May the memory of all of those killed simply because they were Jews be blessed.
