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The military wing of Hamas was classified a terror organization in Britain in 2001. The definition was expanded two decades later to include members of its politburo
Samidoun leader Charlotte Kates assisted a British law firm filing an application seeking to delist Hamas as a “proscribed,” or banned, terror group in the United Kingdom, she says.
“It’s an honour to have contributed to this critically important application … against the criminalization of Palestinian resistance in Britain, the imperial power responsible for Zionist colonialism in Palestine,” Kates posted on X last Wednesday.
The military wing of Hamas was classified a terror organization in the United Kingdom in 2001. The definition was expanded two decades later to the entire organization, including the political arm.
Kates was contacted by Riverway Law to submit an “expert report” citing her involvement with Samidoun, a Vancouver-based group she co-founded with her husband that describes its mission as advocating for Palestinian prisoners. Samidoun was designated a terror entity by the Canadian government last October because of its ties to another terror group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
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Kates has become an outspoken supporter of Hamas in Canada, leading public chants of “Long Live October 7.” She has called the atrocities committed by Hamas in Israel “heroic and brave.” In February, she attended the public funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon, memorializing the terror leader as a “great anti-imperialist leader of our day, the great Arab and international revolutionary, the beloved speaker of truth and warrior of justice.”
A witness statement attached to Riverway’s application by Mousa Abu Marzouk, a Hamas political leader living in Qatar, rejected allegations that the terror group is antisemitic despite its original founding charter stating explicitly: “Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious.” Marzouk, who was formative in laying the foundations of Hamas’s political infrastructure in America, countered that subsequent Hamas policy documents had clarified “our struggle is not against Jewish people because of their religion but against the Zionists who occupy Palestine.”
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“Hamas is of the view that the ‘Jewish problem,’ antisemitism and the persecution of the Jews are phenomena fundamentally linked to European history and not to the history of the Arabs and the Muslims or to their heritage,” Marzouk stated later in the document.
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Alongside its submission, Riverway Law argues in a series of X posts that Hamas’s terror listing runs “contrary to the European Court of Human Rights” and is “disproportionate.” The firm released a video on X of its legal team delivering the application to U.K. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, saying they were “instructed by Hamas” to do so.
Samidoun leader Charlotte Kates assisted a British law firm filing an application seeking to delist Hamas as a “proscribed,” or banned, terror group in the United Kingdom, she says.
“It’s an honour to have contributed to this critically important application … against the criminalization of Palestinian resistance in Britain, the imperial power responsible for Zionist colonialism in Palestine,” Kates posted on X last Wednesday.
The military wing of Hamas was classified a terror organization in the United Kingdom in 2001. The definition was expanded two decades later to the entire organization, including the political arm.
Kates was contacted by Riverway Law to submit an “expert report” citing her involvement with Samidoun, a Vancouver-based group she co-founded with her husband that describes its mission as advocating for Palestinian prisoners. Samidoun was designated a terror entity by the Canadian government last October because of its ties to another terror group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
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Kates has become an outspoken supporter of Hamas in Canada, leading public chants of “Long Live October 7.” She has called the atrocities committed by Hamas in Israel “heroic and brave.” In February, she attended the public funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon, memorializing the terror leader as a “great anti-imperialist leader of our day, the great Arab and international revolutionary, the beloved speaker of truth and warrior of justice.”
A witness statement attached to Riverway’s application by Mousa Abu Marzouk, a Hamas political leader living in Qatar, rejected allegations that the terror group is antisemitic despite its original founding charter stating explicitly: “Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious.” Marzouk, who was formative in laying the foundations of Hamas’s political infrastructure in America, countered that subsequent Hamas policy documents had clarified “our struggle is not against Jewish people because of their religion but against the Zionists who occupy Palestine.”
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“Hamas is of the view that the ‘Jewish problem,’ antisemitism and the persecution of the Jews are phenomena fundamentally linked to European history and not to the history of the Arabs and the Muslims or to their heritage,” Marzouk stated later in the document.
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Alongside its submission, Riverway Law argues in a series of X posts that Hamas’s terror listing runs “contrary to the European Court of Human Rights” and is “disproportionate.” The firm released a video on X of its legal team delivering the application to U.K. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, saying they were “instructed by Hamas” to do so.
