One of the British lawyers representing Hamas in a UK legal filing has claimed that Israel perpetrates the “mass murder of Palestinians because they’re not Jewish”.
Franck Magennis told anti-Israel website Electronic Intifada: “We’re going to overthrow Israel, it’s going to collapse and we’re going to replace it with something beautiful – one state in which Jews and Palestinians and everyone can live together in peace.
"And we’re going to overthrow imperial capitalism, I don’t want to live in a world where it’s allowed to continue existing.
"I just think, fundamentally, we should be more ambitious than to allow this obnoxious system.
“It’s not just so-called Israel, it’s the entire system of social relations that allowed all these so-called nation states to sit by and participate, actively, in the mass murder of Palestinians because they’re not Jewish.”
During the same interview, Magennis also praised Ansar Allah claiming it has “shamed the rest of the world by [its] willingness to stand in solidarity with the Palestinians...taking real material sacrifices to militarily confront the Zionist entity and to show solidarity to open a front in the struggle against Zionism”.
Ansar Allah is better known as the Houthis and has consistently fired rockets at Israel, largely targeting civilian areas, as well as at international shipping lanes in the Red Sea. The group’s slogan is “Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews, victory to Islam”.
The lawyer then went on to blame the UK for the situation in Gaza, saying: “Britain is responsible for this crisis in Palestine right it's responsible for the ethnic cleansing in Palestine, it's responsible for the giving space to the idea that there should be this ethno-state in Palestine.”
Magennis is one of the barristers named on an application by British law firm Riverway Law on behalf of Hamas, seeking to remove the group from the UK’s list of proscribed terrorist organisations.
He has previously accused Israel of “genocide”, called it an “apartheid state” and said that the overall aim of the application is to “end Israel”.
Last year, he was investigated by the Bar Standards Board’s Independent Decision-Making Body (IDB) for a social media post made on October 7, 2023, the day of the Hamas terror attacks that claimed that lives of 1,200 people and sparked the outbreak of the Gaza War.
Writing on X that day, he said: “For almost two decades ‘Israel’ has trapped more than two million people in an open air prison for the ‘crime’ of being insufficiently Jewish.
"We owe Palestinians our solidarity in their struggle against this naked racial domination. Victory to the intifada.”
Despite the post, the IDB ultimately dismissed the complaint.
He also used a picture of Hamas terrorists breaking into southern Israel as his X profile banner, and shared a post which called it “one of the most iconic, hopeful images of our time”.
This was subsequently changed to an image of Ghassan Kanafani, the former spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), who was assassinated by Mossad.
