“Therefore, I feel that the objective we wanted to achieve has already been achieved. There is no need to give an extra stab.”

– DAP secretary-general Anthony Loke

COMMENT | The very fact that Umno Youth chief Dr Akmal Saleh wants to “fight DAP habis-habisan” (to the death) and the prime minister says nothing in defence of Madani’s most important component should tell us everything we need to know about the danger of the DAP to the Malay uber alles crowd.

Right now, a journalist is being investigated for sedition for using the Palestinian issue to frame mainstream far-right ethnocentric policies of this country.

However, when PAS claimed that the Penang-led government's “systemic seizures” of Malay land and “… equating land ownership issues in Penang with the situation in Palestine and Israel”, the state did not react to what PAS claimed.

DAP MP Syahredzan Johan said at the time, “It is very surprising that PAS undermines the legitimacy of the Palestinian people’s struggle to fit their narrow political narrative”. Is it any wonder that the PAS youth chief wants to team up with Akmal? Both understand that they are Teflon when it comes to inciting racial and religious issues.

The reality is that the DAP has...