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53:43Now PlayingIn an audacious legal move, Hamas has petitioned the UK government to lift its designation as a terrorist organization—claiming it’s merely exercising "freedom of speech" on behalf of Palestinian “resistance.” The Islamist group, responsible for the October 7 massacre of 1,200 Israelis and the abduction of hundreds more, filed a 106-page request through the controversial London law firm Riverway Law, arguing the ban violates their rights under the European Convention on Human Rights. Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk insisted, “Hamas does not and never has posed a threat to Britain,” and accused the UK of supporting “Zionism, apartheid, occupation, and ethnic cleansing.” The UK banned Hamas’s military wing in 2001 and its political wing in 2021, declaring it “a complex but single terrorist organization.” Critics slammed the move—former Home Secretary Priti Patel called Hamas an “evil Iranian-backed terrorist organization” that “kidnaps, tortures and murders people, including British nationals.” As the UK’s Home Secretary weighs the decision, Hamas’s attempt to rebrand its genocidal ideology as political activism highlights the growing challenge of Islamist lawfare in Western democracies.
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