A pro-Palestine mob has destroyed a historic painting of a top Conservative at Cambridge University. Palestine Action targeted the painting of Lord Balfour at Cambridge’s Trinity College this afternoon.
In footage posted online by the group, an activist can be seen spraying the painting with what appears to be red paint before slashing it a number of times.
Lord Balfour was a Conservative politician who gave his name to the Balfour Declaration which was issued by the British Government on the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
Trinity College, Cambridge has been approached for comment.
In a statement posted on its website, Palestine Action said it “ruined” the painting by Philip Alexius de László inside Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
It added: “An activist slashed the homage and sprayed the artwork with red paint, symbolising the bloodshed of the Palestinian people since the Balfour Declaration was issued in 1917.”
Palestine action accused Balfour of giving away the Palestinians homeland, adding that until 1948 the British “burnt down” indigenous villages to prepare the way for the state of Israel.
The statement continued: “With this came arbitrary killings, arrests, torture, sexual violence including rape against women and men, the use of human shields and the introduction of home demolitions as collective punishment to repress Palestinian resistance.
“The British were initiating the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, fulfilling the Zionist aim to build their ‘home’ over the top of what were Palestinian communities, towns, villages, farms and ancestral land.”
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