This is a bold move.
Then again, if a terrorist organization was ever going to try such a gambit in a Western country? Other than maybe Germany, the United Kingdom would be my choice for ‘best chance of a successful conclusion to the effort’ as the sympathies and priorities of officials and the judiciary in that country have been seriously in question for some time.
What’s the move?
Hamas has decided to take a legal tack to get themselves off the UK’s naughty list. And they’re going to use the touchy-feely, all-in European ethos to do it.
Hamas is using the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) to challenge its proscription as a terrorist organisation in the UK.
British lawyers acting on behalf of Hamas have submitted a 106-page legal application to Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, appealing against the Government’s designation of the organisation as…
