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A dangerous and morally bankrupt campaign is underway to decriminalise Hamas

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A UK legal firm is representing Dr Mousa Abu Marzouk in a bid to overturn the group’s proscription as a terrorist organisation.

They argue that the UK ban infringes the rights of Hamas supporters to freedom of speech and assembly.

They say that Hamas 's “resistance” to Zionism is not legitimate.

But Hamas believes that Jewish people in Palestine must be subjugated under Islamic rule.

Since seizing control of Gaza in 2007 , Hamas has ruled through fear, repression, and corruption.

Hamas has subjected Palestinians to a totalitarian reign of terror.

Hamas deliberately embeds its military infrastructure within civilian neighbourhoods, using Palestinian men, women, and children as human shields.

Hamas demands that the Palestinian people continue to suffer and die in a never ending jihadist onslaught until Israel ceases to exist.

Hamas has brought death and suffering not only to Israelis but to the Palestinian people it claims to represent. It has turned Gaza into a battlefield and mutilated Palestinian society with its hateful ideology. Any efforts to decriminalise Hamas must be firmly resisted. Palestinians must be freed from Hamas ’s grip. Only then can there be hope for a future of peace, dignity, justice, and true liberation. Hamas is not our salvation. It is our tragedy. We must resist every attempt to legitimise these terrorists—in the UK or anywhere else..