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2024-03-10 Britain
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UK pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activist spray-paints, slashes historic portrait of Balfour
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[IsraelTimes] Palestine Action calls its vandalism at Cambridge U. a protest against 1917 declaration that help pave way for Israel, saying it marked start of ‘ethnic cleansing in Palestine’
A pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel UK protest group on Friday said one of its activists had "ruined" a portrait on display of Arthur Balfour, the British politician whose declaration helped lead to Israel’s creation.
Police confirmed officers had received an online report of criminal damage to a painting at the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College, in eastern England.
Paleostine Action, which describes itself as a direct-action network of groups and individuals, said it was responsible for damaging the 1914 painting of the statesman.
It posted video footage online of the activist spraying the artwork with red paint from a canister and then slashing the surface of the framed painting multiple times.
Charge ‘em for the insured value of the thing plus the cost to restore it plus the cost for security to protect it going forward. If they don’t have the money, charge their parents and whichever rich Progressives are funding the group. The group said the targeted artwork was a portrait of Balfour — the UK’s foreign secretary in the early 20th century — by Hungarian-born artist Philip de Laszlo.
"Paleostine Action spray and slash a historic painting of Lord Balfour in Trinity College, University of Cambridge," it wrote on X, alongside the 11-second video of the vandalism.
The post accused Balfour of beginning "the ethnic cleansing of Paleostine by promising the land away — which the British never had the right to do."
The Balfour Declaration was a 67-word letter in 1917 from Britannia’s then-foreign secretary to Lionel Rothschild, a prominent British Zionist, supporting the creation of a Jewish homeland in Paleostine.
The document is credited with eventually helping to spur the creation of Israel in 1948 under a United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
plan to partition British Mandate Paleostine between the Jews and the Arabs. The plan was accepted by the Jews and rejected by the Arabs, with several Arab nations invading the nascent Israel. Tens of thousands of Paleostinians were displaced in the subsequent war.
Trinity College said it "regrets the damage caused to a portrait of Arthur James Balfour during public opening hours."
"The police have been informed," it added, noting "support" was being made available to any member of the college community impacted.
Cambridgeshire Police said officers were "attending the scene to secure evidence and progress the investigation," a statement added, noting that no arrests had been made.
Paleostine Action has been involved in large-scale pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel protests in London over recent months, in response to the ongoing Israel-Hamas
 ...always the voice of sweet reason...
war.
The demonstrations have been heavily criticized by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s ruling Conservatives, and others, for being intimidating to Jewish people and encouraging antisemitism.
Members of Paleostine Action sprayed a building in central London on a march route with red paint during at least one protest in October.
They have also staged other "direct action" stunts at the sites of UK companies that the group claims are complicit in providing finance and military parts to Israel. 
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