Paul Kohler (Wimbledon)
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"The Lib Dems came out against Israel's actions in Gaza quite early, whereas we have seen many Labour politicians leave the party over their stance.
We were calling for an immediate ceasefire over six months ago as shown here:
https://www.libdems.org.uk/news/article/an-immediate-bilateral-ceasefire-in-israel-and-gaza
Whilst our Foreign Affairs spokesperson Layla Moran, who is of Palestinian heritage, has submitted bills to formally recognise Palestine in each parliamentary session since first entering Parliament as tweeted here:
https://x.com/LaylaMoran/status/1752368651477401809?s=20
As a legal academic and former Head of SOAS University of London School of Law, I have visited the West Bank and worked with Christian, Muslim and Jewish legal academics both there and at SOAS to promote the Two state solution and criticise illegal settlements in the West Bank.
At the same time, my party is committed to improving the UK's control of arms exports. We want to limit arms trade with countries who have poor human rights records. We would introduce a policy of presumption of denial for arms exports to governments listed as Human Rights Priority Countries in the FCDO's annual Human Rights and Democracy report.
A presumption of denial means that arms exports could cease to any country in breach of these conditions. Exports would only be permitted on a case by case basis where the Government judged it to be the case that there was no risk of such arms being used in human rights abuses."