Hamas is appealing against the UK government’s decision to designate it as a terror group by claiming that the ruling breaches the European Convention on Human Rights. The organisation has instructed British lawyers to launch legal action in a bid to remove it from a Home Office list of terrorist organisations, which makes it a criminal offence to have any association or show support for the group in the UK. In a legal application seen by The Times, the Islamist group called on Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, to depart from Britain’s “morally and legally indefensible policy of siding with the Zionist oppressor against the oppressed people of Palestine”. The group claimed that proscription was contrary to the “duties of the British state” to
