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.”

    • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 months ago

      I should’ve worded myself better, I lose sympathy for the person doing the defacing, as in I don’t care about what they have to say and I could care less if they get in trouble for it.

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      8 months ago

      How the fuck is that “the dude responsible for the genocide”?

      Pretty sure that man is dead. Don’t you think maybe multiple people are responsible? Don’t you think those people are the ones carrying it out?

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        8 months ago

        Maybe you should read; pick up a history book instead of wading in here and pretending to know what you’re talking about.

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          No I get how history works.

          I just know that genocide is always blamed on historical factors while it’s happening, and then decades later people wonder “why didn’t we blame the people who were doing it?”

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            8 months ago

            Dude just stop. Nobody gives a fuck about your ignorant shit.