Lawyers acting on behalf of Hamas are challenging the British government for classifying it as a terrorist organisation, insisting it is a resistance movement instead and should be de-listed.
The United Kingdom government had listed the Hamas military wing as a terrorist organisation since 2001 and, later reckoning there is no meaningful difference between it and the rest of the organisation, made Hamas in general a proscribed organisation in 2021 as well.
This is an affront to their human rights, a new legal challenge asserts, in a bid to force the government to de-list Hamas. Under British law, anyone who associates with or shows sympathy for a proscribed organisation may be breaking the law.
Under the challenge, which they have dubbed ‘The Hamas Case’, led by Fahad Ansari of Riverway Law, it is asserted recognising Hamas as terrorists is a breach of the European…
