West Bank: Purchase of Settlement Land and Property
Debate between Lord Polak and Lord Kennedy of Southwark
Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Lab Co-op)
My Lords, it is the turn of the Conservative Benches. Can they please make up their minds as to who will ask the question?
Lord Polak (Con)
I appreciate the noble Baroness, Lady Helic, giving way, because the debate has been one-sided. The noble Baroness, Lady Deech, was right: the double standards on show are staggering. Is it okay for a Brit to purchase property in occupied Northern Cyprus? What useful objective does the Minister consider that this proposal will achieve, other than propagating the deeply antisemitic notion that Judea and Samaria—an area, I remind the House, that remained under Israeli administration throughout the Oslo accords—should be ethnically cleansed of its Jews?