Posted on 03/08/2024 3:08:14 PM PST by lowbridge
In a video that has since gone viral online, a protester spray-painted and slashed a portrait of Lord Balfour at Trinity College, University of Cambridge in England.
Lord Balfour was the architect of the Balfour Declaration and was a prominent advocate for a Jewish home in Palestine.
In a letter from Nov. 2 1917, Lord Balfour told Lord Rothschild that the British government looked favorably upon "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."
Balfour, who was Foreign Secretary at the time, also served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905.
An activist group called "Palestine Action" posted a video of the vandalism on Instagram and spoke directly to the historic significance of the Balfour Declaration in creating a Jewish state. "Written in 1917, Balfour’s declaration began the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by promising the land away — which the British never had the right to do," a caption for the video of the destruction of Lord Balfour's portrait reads.
"After the Declaration, until 1948, the British burnt down indigenous villages to prepare the way; with this came arbitrary killings, arrests, torture and sexual violence including rape," the caption continues. "The British paved the way for the Nakba and trained the Zionist militia to ethnically cleanse over 750,000 Palestinians, destroy over 500 villages and massacre many families."
The caption claimed that the "genocide" in Palestine is "rooted and supported by British complicity."
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pour encourager les autres
I don’t ever remember reading that this was true. Sounds revisionist.
It is what they do.
Nah, dog, the raping and pillaging is a palestinian specialty.
“protest”
It’s taken for granted these days that destruction of property is simply a way of expressing your opinion. Unless, of course, you have the wrong opinion.
Find a tree and rope.
It actually might be too late as it is.
RE:In a video that has since gone viral online, a protester spray-painted and slashed a portrait
So slack-jawed Leftists can see that and try to imitate it.
Like the idiots who sat down on freeway entrances and bridges to stop traffic in support of Hamas and the PLO. First one then five or six more a couple of days later.
Bringing down statues or defacing the Mona Lisa isn’t a clever and uplifting advanced political statement. It’s more like the 2001: A Space Odyssey movie scenes of hairy apes.
And make it quick.
Bttt
bkmk
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