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2024-11-04 Britain
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Palestinian terror enthusiasts destroyed another piece of art
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Palestine Action destroys a Balfour painting.
| We had a report back in March of this lot destroying the portrait of Lord Balfour hanging in the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College. It looks like this the same event, though they did have another protest yesterday. |
Pro-Palestinians stage protest over Balfour declaration
November 3 2024
[Varsity] Demonstrators burned a copy of the declaration which which announced British support for a homeland ‘for the Jewish people’
Pro-Paleostinian protesters burnt a copy of the Balfour declaration yesterday evening (02/11) — a document which announced British support for a homeland "for the Jewish people".
The protest, which took place outside Trinity College, was organised by Cambridge for Paleostine.
Demonstrators condemned Lord Balfour, the former British Prime Minister and Trinity alumnus, who signed the declaration on 2 November 1917.
One protester told Trinity to "taste the fire you inflict upon the Paleostinian people" as the declaration burned. "Cambridge is the belly of the beast" and "is complicit in the genocide in Paleostine," protesters said.
They called on Cambridge to divest from Israeli weapons manufacturing, and said they "will not forgive and forget for this imperialist university".
The Balfour declaration announced the support of the British government for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Paleostine, which was then an Ottoman region with a minority Jewish population.
It was signed 107 years ago yesterday (02/11), prompting what protesters called "107 years of genocide".
Last night's protest was not the first in Cambridge to target Lord Balfour. In March, a pro-Paleostinian activist slashed a painting of the former Prime Minister held at Trinity College. Paleostine Action, who organised the protest in March, said Lord Balfour "gave away the Paleostinians’ homeland — a land that wasn’t his to give away".
Yesterday evening protesters celebrated the "brave activist" involved in slashing the artwork, who "painted his portrait with the blood that remains on his hands today".
Yesterday, pro-Paleostinian activist students also sprayed the University Institute for Manufacturing with red paint, over their links to companies with ties to Israel.
Paleostine Action, the group responsible, targeted the front of the building, after stating that the Institute was a "centre of complicity". They said Cambridge had painted "blood on the institution’s walls for blood on the institution’s hands".
Varsity is the independent newspaper for the University of Cambridge
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