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.”

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Or people who can’t see any causal pathway between slashing the painting and lives being saved.

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      8 months ago

      It’s a form of protest. Protest against against Britains continued support for genocide and in this case even the root cause of the current situation. It’s great symbolism and nothing of value was lost.

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        8 months ago

        Yeah some of us don’t see “protest” as a way of saving lives. How does that work, in your opinion?

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          8 months ago

          It doesn’t. What are you doing instead that is saving those lives then?