Lawyers: ‘Wide Ramifications’ of UK Asylum for Palestinian Citizen of Israel

A Palestinian citizen of Israel is to be granted asylum by the Home Office on the basis that he has a “well-founded fear of persecution if returned to Israel,” could have wide ramifications, according to lawyers. In a statement this week, Franck Magennis, of the Garden Court Chambers Immigration Team, said that the decision came less than 24 hours before a tribunal hearing at which the Home Office was to defend its original decision to refuse the claim. Mr. Magennis, who represented “Hasan,” believed the Home Office’s decision to grant asylum to a Palestinian from Israel would have “widespread ramifications” in Britain and elsewhere....