Historic Portrait of Lord Balfour Slashed by Pro-Palestine Protestors

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Historic Portrait of Lord Balfour Slashed by Pro-Palestine Protestors

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The protest group Palestine Action has slashed a painting of Lord Balfour housed at the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College.

Historic Portrait of Lord Balfour Slashed by Pro-Palestine Protestors

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.”