DAP's Bilut assemblyperson Chow Yu Hui is opposing the party's decision to join a protest at the US embassy tomorrow on grounds that this was "double standards".

"We shouldn't protest the US banning the entry of (citizens from) seven Muslim countries while we, in Malaysia, still agree with banning the entry of Israeli athletes.

"This is double standards," he told Malaysiakini today.

Earlier, Chow had voiced his opinions on this through his Facebook page. It is understood that he was referring to a statement by Perak DAP distancing itself from a party grassroots leader's remark condemning Malaysia's entry ban against two Israeli windsurfers in 2015.

The Israelis were supposed to compete in the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) championship in Langkawi.

The protest, which was first mooted by Harapan chief secretary Saifuddin Abdullah, is against US president Donald Trump's travel ban on seven Muslim countries.

Meanwhile, DAP Youth political education director Chiong Yoke Kong said that while he does not disagree with the protest, it should not have been called so early.

"Before the public clearly understand Trump's order, we still got room to debate on it, not call for protest immediately," he said.

'Malaysia, too, a nation built by migrants'

When asked to weigh in on the matter, DAP's Pasir Pinji assemblyperson Howard Lee said what was planned for tomorrow was not a protest, but the handing of a protest letter to the US embassy.

"We want peace-loving and also human rights-loving Malaysians to witness that regardless of political backgrounds, leanings and organisations, Malaysia is in solidarity with all who will suffer as a result of this inhumane ban," Lee said, when contacted by Malaysiakini.

He said there will alsoways be disagreements in politics but what was important was the Harapan showed solidarity with bona fide travelers and refugees who are affected by the travel ban.

He dismissed suggestions that Harapan's opposition to the travel ban was "double standards".

"Why is it okay to be in solidarity with the 'umbrella revolution' (in Hong Kong) and not in solidarity with a blanket ban by a crazy president?

"I feel that there's nothing wrong with what we are doing and the only wrong I can find from doing this is not doing it," he said.

He said most Malaysians were also descendents of migrants, so the "Muslim ban" should be an issue close to their hearts too.

Last Friday, Trump ordered a temporary travel ban on seven Muslim majority countries - Iraq, Syria, Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia.

A federal US judge has since granted a stay on the ban, following a lawsuit filed by the rights watchdog American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of two Iraqis detained at New York's JFK airport.