Another UK group is trying to get Hamas off the terror list—this time accusing the government of “discrimination.”
CAGE International—which past reports describe as being run by “extremists peddling lies to British Muslims to turn them into supporters of terror”—has filed an application with the Labour home secretary, saying Hamas’ proscription “violates freedom of expression and is being applied in a discriminatory manner.” In the real world, two anti-antisemitism campaigners are still facing prosecution for holding banners last year declaring “Hamas is Terrorist.”
CAGE research director Asim Qureshi was also involved in the previous (ongoing) application by Riverway Law. He titled the Hamas terror group—which killed 1,200 people (most of them civilians) on October 7th alone and still holds 54 hostages (many of them dead) in captivity—the “Islamic Resistance Movement.”
After I was involved with the @riverwaylaw application to deproscribe the Islamic Resistance Movement from the list of banned organisations in the UK, today @CAGEintl submits an application to @YvetteCooperMP adding further reasons why such deproscription is necessary. https://t.co/pEkuirWM3d
CAGE claims its submission is “the first of its kind to focus not only on procedural injustice, but on the systemic suppression of political speech.”
Britain’s Campaign Against Antisemitism suggested CAGE made this claim for PR reasons, adding:
We will not allow Hamas to be de-proscribed in this country, and we will go to court if necessary. Our legal team is continuing to examine this latest application and we will take any appropriate legal steps to challenge it.
We are aware that the controversial activist group CAGE International has launched an application to get Hamas de-proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK.
According to CAGE, “The submission is the first of its kind to focus not only on procedural injustice, but on the… pic.twitter.com/bHgnXxY5NE
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) June 10, 2025
This second application is unlikely to be the last of its kind, too. Fahad Ansari, who is the director of Riverway Law, said he was “looking forward to other civil society organisations bringing similar challenges.” Palestinian-American lawyer Lamis Deek also praised CAGE’s “MAGNIFICENT CRITICAL WORK!!”
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
