Campaign Against Antisemitism
We have reported Franck Magennis and Daniël Michaël Grütters to @barstandards. Mr Magennis and Mr Grütters are barristers who are working for Hamas on its desperate bid to get the group deproscribed in the UK. Upon reviewing the application for deproscription, it is evident that Mr Magennis and Mr Grütters knowingly or recklessly presented, on behalf of Hamas, a false and misleading description of the 7th October 2023 massacre. The Hamas false version of events denies that Hamas carried out a deliberate massacre of civilians in Israel, despite the mountain of evidence to the contrary — this deeply offensive assertion evokes Holocaust denial, in that it denies the veracity of a barbaric, deliberate mass-murder of Jews which is the subject of comprehensive, incontrovertible evidence. It is accordingly a particularly reprehensible assertion for a barrister to make, even on instructions, knowing it to be untrue. Rather than being incidental to the application, the Hamas false version of the events is central to the application. Mr Magennis and Mr Grütters have knowingly prepared and presented a submission to the Secretary of State containing at its core a set of egregious falsehoods, which we charge breaches the requirement that all barristers “must act with honesty, and with integrity”. The BSB must now open an investigation into Mr Magennis and Mr Grütters.
