MIDDLE EAST CRISIS

The British activist accused of being a key Hamas ally

Majed Al-Zeer, who has campaigned for Palestine in parliament, is named in a German interior ministry document
Majed Al-Zeer is the sole director of the Palestinian Return Centre
Majed Al-Zeer is the sole director of the Palestinian Return Centre
KHALES AL-HARIRI/REUTERS

A British man has been accused by the German authorities of being Hamas’s key liaison in Europe with numerous alleged links to the terrorist organisation.

Majed Al-Zeer, 61, a prominent Palestinian activist who has appeared in parliament at events with Jeremy Corbyn and several other British MPs, is alleged to have contacts at the highest levels of the Hamas leadership.

A file from the German interior ministry, first reported by Der Spiegel, a German news magazine, names Al-Zeer as the “person responsible for Hamas” in Germany and across Europe.

In 2015 Al-Zeer was photographed alongside Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’s political bureau in Qatar, and in 2008 with Khaled Mashal, who led Hamas from 1992 to 2017.

Al-Zeer, who moved from London to