Palestine Action vows to continue its ‘direct action’
A portrait of Lord Arthur James Balfour at Trinity College at Cambridge was destroyed Friday by pro-Palestinian activists.
In a video posted on social media by Palestine Action, a young woman in a blue puffy jacket is seen spraying red spray paint on the painting then slashing the canvas with a sharp tool.
“Written in 1917, Balfour’s declaration began the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by promising the land away — which the British never had the right to do,” the group posted along with the video.Lord Balfour is the namesake for the Balfour Declaration, a public statement issued by the British government in November 1917 during World War I which promised the Palestine region would be opened to Jewish settlement.At the time, Jews were already moving from Europe to the Palestine region, which was governed by the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire ended […]
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