COMMENT | The atrocities committed by Israel against the helpless population in Gaza have attracted a slew of global sympathies all over the world. Malaysia is not an exception. Hence, the Education Ministry in Malaysia had recommended schools in Malaysia to commemorate Palestine Solidarity Week.

In holding programmes during Palestine Solidarity Week, there was a school in Malaysia which decided to go the extra mile by allowing school children to hold toy guns, with their faces covered using a black and white shawl synonymous with the Palestinian struggle.

Such showmanship by those school children had solicited comments from many parties including from a minister in the Madani government. The minister then posted, on his social media, inter alia, these words - “schools are not the place for conflict, extremist ideologies, and violence”.