Mrkawfee

Yes that's my point. They were a terror group and then weren't when the US decided. In the same way that Sudan was a state sponsor of terror until the US decided otherwise.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-55300252

In both cases recognising the occupation of Palestine made them not terrorists.

Also if committing massacres made the PLO a terror group then surely Israel and it's military wing should be a state sponsor of terror many times over since October 7th but instead it receives billions in funding and weapons from the US and UK

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_massacre

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuseirat_refugee_camp_massacre

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/04/1148876

As I said it is a form of political repression.

Also reception isn't anywhere near as formal as Year 1. It's pretty much an extension of the nursery experience which many children will have given the need for both parents to work.

Hamas being designated a terrorist group arose because of US and Israeli pressure to de-legitimise any entity that represents Palestinians in the same way that the PLO was regarded as a terror group pre Oslo.

It is political repression and nothing more.

Many of these same countries branded Nelson Mandela and the ANC as a terror group.

The government is breaking the law by permitting the sale of these weapons.

It's literally a breach of the law to be supplying weapons to a country engaging in human rights violations, war crimes and a possible genocide. That's why Lammy has buried the legal opinion which the Tories also sat on.

The government is the law breaker. The people going to prison are the ones upholding international law.

Only a handful of countries consider Hamas a terror group. Funnily enough these are the same countries that are complicit in Israel's genocide in Gaza.

This is a "leopards ate my face" law. It's fine until you get caught up in it however unlikely that appears now.

He says he was arrested under section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000 which makes it illegal to stay anything even remotely non critical about a "proscribed organisation" like Hamas. It is extraordinarily repressive.

To clarify this is part of what section 12 says:

Proscription makes it a criminal offence to: express an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed organisation, reckless as to whether a person to whom the expression is directed will be encouraged to support a proscribed organisation.

A high ranking civil servant and subject matters expert on war crimes resigned recently over the governments complicity in war crimes. They know what they're doing is illegal. They just don't give a shit.

Silly lawyers. Don't they know that Israel is above the law?

You mean not guilty surely?

Is this like how Epstein committed suicide in prison?