Pro-Palestine activist destroys portrait of Lord Balfour in Cambridge - The Jewish Chronicle

A pro-Palestinian activist has videoed themselves destroying an historic work of art, depicting Lord Arthur Balfour in Trinity College Cambridge.

In a video posted to social media, an unnamed female activist can be seen spraying red paint onto the work before taking out a box cutter and slashing it and pulling apart the canvas.

The Palestine Action group claimed credit for the protest on social media, saying that the Balfour declaration ‘began the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.”

BREAKING: Palestine Action spray and slash a historic painting of Lord Balfour in Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

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. pic.twitter.com/CGmh8GadQG