Palestine Action Activist Destroys Historic Painting of Lord Balfour

Published on March 8, 2024

A member of the radical activist group Palestine Action (PA) has destroyed a painting of Lord Balfour at the University of Cambridge by slashing and spray painting it. On Friday, PA, which is pursuing a vandalism-led strategy to shut down an Israeli arms manufacturer in the UK, spray painted and slashed a 1914 painting by Philip Alexius de László of Lord Arthur James Balfour inside Trinity College. Lord Balfour was a prominent British statesman who served as UK prime minister from 1902 to 1905. In 1917, as the British foreign secretary, Lord Balfour issued the Balfour Declaration, a historic document that expressed British support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine....

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