Fahad Ansari, a solicitor and the sole full-time employee of the London law firm of Riverway Law — “Our Team” at Riverway Law consists of Ansari and a single consultant — has for two decades been defending people who have been linked to, inter alia, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, the Taliban, and Hamas. Now Ansari wants the British government to remove the designation of Hamas as a terrorist organization. A detailed report on Fahad Ansari can be found here: “U.K. Law Firm Advocating for Hamas Has History of Defending Jihadis,” by Jules Gomes, Focus On Western Islamism, April 25, 2025:
A legal firm that has a history of defending jihadis linked to Islamist terror militias including Al-Qaeda, Islamic State, and the Taliban, is challenging the U.K. government’s designation of Hamas as a terrorist organization.
Riverway Law, a London-based firm acting on behalf of Mousa Abu Marzouk, the head of Hamas’s International Relations and Legal Office, submitted an appeal to the Home Office on April 9, demanding Hamas’ “deproscription from the British government’s list of proscribed terrorist groups.” The controversy has prompted researchers to document pro-Hamas statements issued by the firm’s lead solicitor, Fahad Ansari, who authored the brief in question.
The Brief
In his witness statement, Marzouk called Britain “the architect of our suffering through its collaboration with the Zionist project for over a century,” and argued that by “maintaining its ban” on Hamas, the U.K. was “in breach of its obligations under international law.”
By proscribing Hamas, Britain is “complicit” in Israel’s “ongoing acts of genocide,” Marzouk said. “Hamas is not a terrorist group” but “a Palestinian Islamic liberation and resistance movement whose goal is to liberate Palestine and confront the Zionist project,” he claimed.
Rejecting accusations of antisemitism and targeting of Jews, the statement argued that Hamas’ founding charter, which cites a hadith as a prooftext for killing Jews and pledges that Islam will “obliterate” Israel, was “drafted without consultation with the senior leadership” who were imprisoned or exiled at the time.
The law firm’s 106-page application to Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, called for the ban to be lifted in accordance with European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) protections for freedom of speech, arguing that Hamas poses “no threat to the U.K. people.” It does, represent a threat to the lives of its critics who condemn its policies in Gaza, however. In early April, Hamas was accused of murdering a 22-year-old man who attended an anti-Hamas protest in March.
Gideon Falter, Chief Executive of Campaign Against Antisemitism, expressed disdain for Hamas’s appeal, stating that it is proof of how desperate the terror organization has become in recent months.
Our initial review of the so-called ‘Hamas case’ 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 U.K.
“It’s a grotesque irony that the case to de-proscribe Hamas is being made as a human rights claim,” Falter lamented. “Yes, a group that has deprived well in excess of a thousand Jews of their lives and two million Gazans of their safety is basing its appeal on human rights.”
No, of course Riverway Law, or rather its only full-time employee, Fahad Ansari — a solicitor, not a barrister, who will never come close to taking silk — has nothing to say. Could he deny that he has taken on many cases of people linked to such terrorist groups as Al Qaeda and Hamas? Or pretend that he has never called for the “spirit of jihad” to be revived in the UK? Could Ansari claim to have not the slightest desire to remove from Hamas its designation in the UK as a “terrorist group”? You know the answer to those questions.
There are many, including Robert Jenrick, the Shadow Justice Minister, who think that Ansari’s ties to terrorists should cause him to be struck off. After reading the piece above, I am one of them. What about you?
Eddie says
I am getting to the point where I am just not going to be able to cope with all this bad news about Britain on Jihadwatch.
The truth is that you don’t know the half of it.
We need a revolution and we need to start throwing out the foreigners who have taken our country and flushed it down the pan.
Every bloody day more crap.
Islam is the worse part of it sure but it’s more than that.
Our country is given to people who have no history or connection here before 1948. Most of them have come in the last 25 years.
Our country is just a place to colonise and ride rough shod over the people whose forefathers built and fought for this place.
Three on line influencers involved on the ‘Unite the Kingdom” aka Tommy Robinson movement have recently been intimidated by the state and hounded by police, bank accounts cancelled etc. These three have gone to ground in other countries and will no longer be willing to take part in any future ‘ resistance ‘
Tommy Robinson has now a perpetual threat that if he does not take down his documentary Silenced from his x account he will be gate arrested on release from prison and put straight back in.
If you speak against the state narrative here you get put in Muslim controlled prisons. Bloody dangerous for right wing people.
Today we have Pakistanis saying they want to take over Government and control our schools.
We have also been told of the Governments scheme “Operation Scatter” a plan to create 132 new locations to distribute illegal migrants.
They are also being put in private rented dwellings with rent guaranteed for five years by the Government. Local kids haven’t a chance to get homes in many places.
A village of 800 folk now have a camp of 700 migrants on their doorstep and they are follow and pestering local girls and women, walking on peoples property and defecating anywhere they want.
10000 boat crossing migrants this year so far and there are more waiting to cross every day. The Home Office are proud to say they have deported 43 illegals this year – but they probably volunteered to go anyway.
There was a demo in London last weekend about the Rape Gangs and abuse of children and counter protesters called them Nazis.
And we have no one to vote for to get us out of this mess as no existing party will mass deport.
And that is the news in brief from shattered staggering Dhimmi Britain
God help us. No one else is going to.
James Lincoln says
Eddie,
Thank you so much for letting Jihad Watch readers know what is really happening on the ground in the UK.
You are understandably very discouraged – but your posts are very important.
Eddie says
Thank you James.
It is impossible to convey how it feels when the ground seems to be disappearing under your feet every day.
The abuse of everything this country has ever been and the degradation and the shame.
The disbelief that a native people in a first world country can be treated as badly as this by it’s own leaders. That the Government intends to destroy us and take away our children’s futures.
I pray there will be one day a reckoning and a gallows set up in Parliament Square.
James Lincoln says
Fully understand, Eddie.
Tony Rice says
Yep, strike him off.