Two schools in Brussels are refusing to participate in the Stolpersteine (Stumbling Stones) ceremony commemorating Belgian Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust, implying that Israel’s war in Gaza was the reason.

The schools issued a statement that “the schools do not want to impose a discussion about the Holocaust on children given the current situation in the Middle East.”

The Stolpersteine project includes bronze plaques with the names of victims of the Nazis embedded in the sidewalks close to where they lived.