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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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[–] [email protected] 76 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Based. Take those genocidal maniacs off the wall.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Or leave it: I think it's improved this way: a terrible man, a mediocre painting, in context with the ongoing genocide he put into motion. It invites the viewer to wonder what kind of legacy the rich folk who paid for these paintings have.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Hope they put it in the Genocide museum, not on the wall of a university as some hero

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

I would say its new torn status would make it a perfect fit for said museum

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

They can go into the same pile as all those Confederate statues and flags.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I don't know much about Balfour. Was he a genocidal maniac?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (2 children)

He was the one who promised the Zionist movement their own state in Palestine (which at the time was in the hands of the Ottomans).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

On top of that he was a racist and antisemite.

Also don't forget how the Brits promised to the Arabs, just a bit earlier, how they would support the funding of independent states if the Arabs were to rebel against the Ottomans.

I think a statue should be erected to him, but a tarred and feathered one.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

He specifically created the problems we are dealing with in the Middle East. He figured that you could displace a group of people and let the heat stay away from Europe. Basically modern Israel was created as a terrorism target so that western powers didn’t have to deal with it. Also notable that he was a territorial governor is the area as part of the former British empire.