The speaker of the Kuwaiti parliament Marzouq Ghanim has called for Israel to be expelled from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), a world association of national parliaments. He criticised what he slammed as “double standards” in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Responding to a proposal by the IPU’s 12+ Group, which includes European countries, Canada, and Australia to expel Russia from the global parliamentary body over its attack on Ukraine, Ghanim said: “How can they ask for expelling the Russian delegation or any other delegation from the IPU for an invasion that took place d…