British members of parliament and UK Jewish companies have actually slammed and sometimes, required the disbarment of the lawyers who, on Wednesday, at the request of Hamas, used to get rid of the Palestinian group from the nation’s list of proscribed terrorist companies.
Conservative shadow justice secretary and Newark MP Robert Jenrick stated on social networks on Sunday that he had actually reported Riverway law lawyer Fahad Ansari for his assistance of Hamas and jihad, in addition to the company’s possible breach of sanctions policies. He kept in mind that Ansari had actually been reported to counter-terrorism authorities on 6 events.
” They require to examine urgently and strike them off if in breach. The legal occupation is being harmed by ideologues exploiting their status to platform extremism.” Jenrick stated on X. “This isn’t about totally free speech. It has to do with a guy who consistently crosses the line into open assistance for terrorism– all while the authorities avert.”
‘ Public compassion for terrorists’
Jenrick kept in mind previous remarks by Ansari that showed the lawyer’s “public compassion for terrorists, from Hamas to the Taliban,” consisting of a 2024 social networks post in which Ansari explained Hamas creator Sheikh Ahmed Yassin as a “sign for Palestinian resistance and for Islamic motions worldwide.”
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin ended up being and stays a sign for Palestinian resistance and for Islamic motions worldwide. Regardless of his being an orphan, a refugee, a paraplegic, and an abuse survivor, he showed through his decision and strength how anybody with strong … pic.twitter.com/0OrtiaJlfp
— Fahad Ansari (Stop the Gaza genocide) (@fahadansari) March 22, 2024
” His tradition survives on in the Palestinian resistance today, which is by no ways restricted to Hamas,” the lawyer stated last March.
In another social networks post shared by Jenrick, Ansari stated on March 24 that “The time for serene ways of demonstration ended a long period of time ago” which “Only violent armed resistance to Israel’s genocide can conserve the Palestinians from extermination.”
Life has actually lost all significance. Just violent armed resistance to Israel’s genocide can conserve the Palestinians from extermination. Each and every single person with a conscience must be brave sufficient to require this. The time for serene ways of demonstration ended a long period of time earlier. Israel …
— Fahad Ansari (Stop the Gaza genocide) (@fahadansari) March 24, 2025
Riverway Law reacted to Jenrick on Sunday, recommending that his position on the matter was notified by bigotry and his assistance for Israel. The company answered back that it was making use of a path for deproscription, and as a lawyer and shadow justice secretary he must appreciate due procedure. The company even more indicated on X that Jenrick had most likely not check out the filing to the Office, and didn’t resolve any of the arguments.
In reaction to Jenrick’s ideas that the company might have broken sanctions policies, Riverway Law stated that its group and witnesses had actually not gotten any payment “showing a cumulative desire to discover a method forward out of the darkness we are all experiencing.”
” Mr. Jenrick has actually recommended that by both bringing this application on behalf of Hamas, and doing so in a public way, we have actually brought the track record of the occupation into disrepute. On the contrary, the feedback that we have actually gotten from individuals both within the UK and overseas, recommends that the track record of the legal occupation remained in tatters with the majority of members of the occupations being deemed staying quiet about the genocide or helpful of it,” stated Riverway Law. “This application has actually assisted to enhance its track record for those looking for an end to the massacre acknowledging the value of relaxing a table with those you do not like.”
Conservative Celebration Shadow Foreign Secretary and Witham MP Priti Patel reacted to the Wednesday application by decrying Hamas as an “wicked Iranian-backed terrorist company” that had actually likewise killed British nationals.
” They position a continuous risk to our security and to the peace and stability of the Middle East and have weapons and training centers that put lives at danger and threaten our interests,” Patel stated in a Wednesday declaration. “Those marketing to end the proscription of Hamas stop working to comprehend the severity of the hazards this terrorist company position.”
Riverway Law dismissed Patel as the previous home secretary that had actually prohibited the political wing of Hamas in 2021, and questioned her “political stability” on the matter due to the fact that she resigned in 2020 due to a debate over secret conferences with Israeli authorities.
Independent Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe kept in mind on Wednesday that he would go even more than existing anti-terrorism laws, and would deport “any foreign nationwide discovered supporting these monstrous terrorists.”
The Board of Deputies of British Jews informed the Times on Thursday that the project of deproscription of as a “deeply misconceived difficulty” that revealed the “dependency” of big sections of the UK pro-Palestinian motion to Hamas.
” The company and other helping them in bringing this case for Hamas must repent of their assistance for a proscribed terrorist company,” the board stated Thursday.
Project Versus Antisemitism likewise stated on Thursday that it would be calling the Solicitors Policy Authority about Ansari’s assistance for Hamas prior to the legal application.
The antisemitism guard dog dismissed the case as a “bad-faith effort to mainstream genocidal antisemitism,” on X declining among the filing’s primary theories, that proscription had a chilling impact on political engagement, due to the fact that it was possible to project for Palestinian rights, slam Israel, or support a two-state option without promoting Hamas and terrorism.
CAA likewise countered arguments that the proscribing Hamas was out of proportion due to the fact that the terrorist group didn’t position a hazard to Britons by highlighting how British nationals were killed and hijacked throughout the indiscriminate October 7 Massacre. CAA likewise classified claims that Hamas wasn’t antisemitic as “ridiculous,” highlighting the company’s charter requiring the murder of Jews.
Riverway Law’s filing on behalf of Hamas senior main Dr Mousa Abu Marzouk had actually argued that Hamas’s armed violence was genuine in reaction to declared colonization, profession, apartheid, and genocide. Contemporary British assistance was partnership in the expected criminal activities.