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Historic Portrait of Lord Balfour Slashed by Pro-Palestine Protestors (news.artnet.com)

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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.”

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[+] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world -29 points 8 months ago

The Balfour declaration was just a letter

The British did not 'give' the Jews anything.

Hating Jews since the beginning of time is fairly sick. Thinking this will improve anything and being historically ignorant is just plain stupid.

[-] bali@lemmy.zip 24 points 8 months ago

i think the person who did this not hating the jews since the beginning of time and maybe the person did not hate anyone at all. how about focus on the actual eventlike the ongoing genocide by the israelimilitary instead of playing the victim card

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee -5 points 8 months ago

how about focus on the actual eventlike the ongoing genocide by the israelimilitary instead of

some dead guy from a century earlier in time?

Why aren’t we discussing the Israeli military as the responsible party?

[-] tjsauce@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Because this dead guy is historically significant to the conflict, as his actions led to the present situation. Understanding history helps us shape the future.

[-] xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 8 months ago

It was "just a letter" written on behalf of the British state giving their full support for the creation of Israel in what was, at the time, British-occupied Ottoman land that the British had already promised to return to the Palestinian people.

So yes, the British literally give the land - which was not theirs in any legitimate form - to a group other than the native population.

They then provided (and continue to provide) financial, political and military support for decades, while Palestine was progressively colonised.

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