A painting of Lord Balfour housed at the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College was slashed by protest group Palestine Action.

The painting of Lord Balfour was made in 1914 by Philip Alexius de László inside Trinity College. The Palestine Action group specifically targeted the Lord Balfour painting, describing his declaration as the beginning of “ethnic cleansing of Palestine by promising the land away—which the British never had the right to do.”

  • driving_crooner
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    9 months ago

    If this attracts negative attention, Imagine the one commiting genocide could attract.

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        9 months ago

        Sure, but also other repercussions like an old man asking you to maybe genocide a bit less, and we can’t have that.

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          9 months ago

          All the while that old man will stress that we must support you fully, and that he’ll never stop supporting you.

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            9 months ago

            But hey, he called you an asshole and said you need a come to Jesus moment. So that makes him cool right?

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      9 months ago

      Corporate media decides whether the attention is negative or positive.

      For myself, I don’t approve of vandalism but I fully understand their rage