From the Liveblog of
Friday, March 8, 2024
Radical pro-Palestinian activist vandalizes portrait of Arthur Balfour at Cambridge University
A radical pro-Palestinian activist has been filmed spray-painting and slashing a historic 1914 portrait of Lord Arthur Balfour at Cambridge University in the UK.
As foreign secretary in 1917, Balfour signed the eponymous Balfour Declaration that backed establishing a “national home for the Jewish people” in what was to become Mandatory Palestine. The move was seen as giving the Zionist movement official recognition and backing on the part of a major power, and has long been lamented by Palestinians.
In 2022, two women were arrested for squirting ketchup over a statute of Balfour in Parliament in London.
פעילה פרו-פלסטינית תועדה משחיתה באוניברסיטת קיימברידג' ציור היסטורי מ-1914 של הלורד בלפור@Yoav__Zehavi pic.twitter.com/64TdQNPTBp
— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) March 8, 2024
