COMMENT | I’ve spent a lot of time telling young, wide-eyed journalism students that there’s no such thing as a stupid question.

I usually say it with a straight face, sitting on a desk in a classroom, trying to look cool like Robin Williams in “Dead Poets Society”, trying to look like I’ve seen it all.

But after watching the clip of Rex Tan at the George Galloway forum recently, I might have to take back that statement. Just a little bit. Like, maybe five percent.

Honestly, it was very much a facepalm moment. Tan, a young journalist formerly with Free Malaysia Today (he has resigned), stood up to ask the fiery Brit a question.

It was about Gaza, but instead, he ended up making a distasteful comparison about Malay-Chinese relations and the history of Malaya with the treatment of Palestinians by Israel. It was distasteful, even though what he said isn’t as extreme.

Galloway, who obviously...