Father-in-law of British terror chief working on Palestine Action case is patron of UK Lawyers for Israel

The father-in-law of the UK’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation has personal ties to Israel. Jonathan Hall is responsible for assessing whether groups like Palestine Action qualify as terrorist organisations. On Saturday, Hall wrote for the Observer, which defended the decision to proscribe Palestine Action.

This is despite leaked evidence which showed government intelligence revealing it had no grounds to proscribe Palestine Action.

Another example of how UK politics has been corrupted in the interests of a foreign state. The proscription of Palestine Action was a deeply partisan political act @josephpowell https://t.co/wLZ07EkCaK

— Chris Somes-Charlton 💙 (@SomesCharlton) August 25, 2025

‘Independence’ of Jonathan Hall

But Craig Murray, independent journalist and former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, recently revealed that Jonathan Hall’s father-in-law is Lord Dyson. He is a patron of UK Lawyers for Israel.

Jonathan Hall KC, the UK’s so-called “Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation”, was on the cttee that approved Palestine Action proscription.

His father in law is Patron of UK Lawyers for Israel.

Hall has visited Israeli “counter-terrorism” bodies, spends family holidays… pic.twitter.com/5HnQH6jQBG

— Craig Murray (@CraigMurrayOrg) August 24, 2025

Terrorism chief exposed for links to Israel

Jonathan Hall, the UK’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation—whose role includes assessing whether groups like Palestine Action qualify as terrorist organisations—has personal ties to Israel: his father-in-law, Lord Dyson, is… pic.twitter.com/QU8g82Cr7m

— MintPress News (@MintPressNews) August 27, 2025

This raises questions about the true ‘independence’ of the UK’s independent reviewer of terrorism Jonathan Hall.

Does @terrorwatchdog Jonathan Hall KC have clear family ties to Lawyers for Israel? That would make him very much NOT independent, wouldn’t it? https://t.co/CESRdO09KP

— RedSocks 🇵🇸 (@RedSock44420380) August 28, 2025

So called independent reviewer actually a lobbyist for #Israel

No more independent than @YvetteCooperMP @UKLabour deep in #Israeli pockets

Oppose proscription of PalAction

Support Action for #Palestine

🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 #FreePalestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 https://t.co/QZqOC6rhxx

— 🇺🇦Roger Heywood 🇵🇸 (@roger_heywood) August 25, 2025

Human rights group CAGE has described UK Lawyers for Israel as “Apartheid apologist”. Recently, they caused outrage when their CEO criticised medical experts for not agreeing that Israel’s food blockage was reducing Palestinian obesity.

UKLFI ?
UK Lawyers for Israel have said the ‘War in Gaza’
will help reduce obesity in Children from Palestine
UKLFI have attacked Amnesty Int. for exposing the truth
UKLFI have attacked ‘Medical Aid For Palestine’
UKLFI have attacked NHS hospital staff for showing Gaza support

— DrBroncanuus (@DrBroncanuus) August 27, 2025

The group also intimidated Worcester City Council to remove a pro-Palestine mural, which the artist created to honour Palestinian journalists.

They also pressured Chelsea and Westminster hospital into removing artwork created by children from Gaza, because it was “offensive”.

Did UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) approve the art? pic.twitter.com/hcMYxvdBA9

— BeSmart (@smartthumb) August 28, 2025

The Solicitors Regulation Authority received several complaints about UKLFI for alleged “vexatious and baseless” legal threats to silence support for Palestine.

Shocking but not surprising. UK Lawyers for Israel has its fingers in so many pies in an attempt to 🤐 all pro-Palestine support. It’s currently being investigated for its intimidatory legal threats in this regard https://t.co/PdOCu239cg

— Sue Lees (@sue_lees) August 24, 2025

A stitch up

Clearly, Jonathan Hall should have recused himself from any committee responsible for the fate of a pro-Palestine organisation.

You’d think all this might suggest a conflict of interest but if you said it out loud you’d probably be arrested https://t.co/m6rjdBbW8k

— Robbie G D2theI2theD2theF (@Gruntfutuck) August 24, 2025

No, nope, not a smidgeon of conflict of interest in that one.
The stitch up disgusts me…..
do they think we don’t notice? https://t.co/XNHT7bPHMj

— Up_Again ItWasAScam 💙 🍉💙🍉 (@up_again) August 24, 2025

Murray also revealed that Hall has spent holidays in Israel and visited its counter-terrorism units.

This guy, Jonathan Hall KC, was appointed by the Home Secretary in the UK as an “independent reviewer” of terrorism laws.

Except he vacations in “Israel”, visits Israeli “counterterrorism” units, and helped get Palestine Action banned.

Sounds like a Zionist to me. https://t.co/MiHff8o92d

— Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) August 24, 2025

The govt’s “independent” reviewer of terror legislation, who defends the proscription of Palestine Action as “novel but acceptable”, because they are “serious saboteurs who have given up on parliamentary democracy”, is a disgracefully compromised Zionist https://t.co/Z0Fxjpqkvu https://t.co/bP0VlsgIPS

— Andy Worthington (@GuantanamoAndy) August 24, 2025

The day will come when he is dragged before the Hague on Genocide charges. https://t.co/CltgD6DsBr

— John Adams (@JohnAdams921844) August 25, 2025

Ultimately, nothing about the Labour government’s proscription of Palestine Action has been above board from the start. From the UK government’s collusion with the Israeli embassy in the imprisonment of the Filton 18, to Lord Richard Dannatt’s lobbying, and Israel lobby groups’ (extremely) likely influence on the group’s ban, it has been awash with blatant agenda from the word go.

Now, Jonathan Hall’s links to UKLFI solidify what a total stitch-up it all is.

Feature image via the Canary