Pro-Palestine protesters slash portray at University of Cambridge | News | EUROtoday

Pro-Palestine protesters slashed a historic portray on the University of Cambridge on Friday, 8 March.

Footage reveals Palestine Action spray-painting a 1914 piece depicting Lord Arthur Balfour, who was answerable for the Balfour Declaration of 1917 which acknowledged that the British authorities supported “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”.

“Britain’s support for the continued colonisation of Palestine hasn’t wavered since 1917,” Palestine Action stated in a press release.

A Trinity College spokesperson instructed The Independent: “Trinity College regrets the damage caused to a portrait of Arthur James Balfour during public opening hours. The police have been informed.”