A pro-Palestinian protester vandalizes a painting depicting Lord Balfour at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge in England/screenshot, screenshot
A pro-Palestinian protester vandalized a 110-year-old painting of Lord Balfour that stands at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge in England.
The protest organization "Palestine Action" shared a photo of an activist spraying the painting and cutting it.
Lord Arthur James Balfour was the British Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister at the beginning of the 20th century.
He is also known as the father of the "Balfour Declaration" from 1917, the document signed by him and essentially a declaration that Britain would support the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel.
The declaration was a huge political achievement of the Zionist movement, in that a power like Great Britain agreed to extend its patronage to the Zionist movement and assist it in realizing its main goal.
Pro-Palestinian activists have confirmed that Palestine Action destroyed the painting by Philip Alexios inside Trinity College, University of Cambridge, of Lord Arthur James Balfour, saying that the painting was cut and sprayed with red paint "symbolizing the bloodshed of the Palestinian people since The Balfour Declaration in 1917. Arthur Balfour, Britain's foreign minister, issued a declaration that promised to build a 'national home for the Jewish people' in Palestine, where the majority of the population was not Jewish. He divided the homeland of the Palestinians - a land he could not hand over."
No arrests have been reported at this time.
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