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Palestine Action destroys a Balfour painting.
November 3 2024 [Varsity] Demonstrators burned a copy of the declaration which which announced British support for a homeland ‘for the Jewish people’ Pro-Paleostinian protesters burnt a copy of the Balfour declaration yesterday evening (02/11) — a document which announced British support for a homeland "for the Jewish people". The protest, which took place outside Trinity College, was organised by Cambridge for Paleostine. Demonstrators condemned Lord Balfour, the former British Prime Minister and Trinity alumnus, who signed the declaration on 2 November 1917. One protester told Trinity to "taste the fire you inflict upon the Paleostinian people" as the declaration burned. "Cambridge is the belly of the beast" and "is complicit in the genocide in Paleostine," protesters said. They called on Cambridge to divest from Israeli weapons manufacturing, and said they "will not forgive and forget for this imperialist university". The Balfour declaration announced the support of the British government for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Paleostine, which was then an Ottoman region with a minority Jewish population. It was signed 107 years ago yesterday (02/11), prompting what protesters called "107 years of genocide". Last night's protest was not the first in Cambridge to target Lord Balfour. In March, a pro-Paleostinian activist slashed a painting of the former Prime Minister held at Trinity College. Paleostine Action, who organised the protest in March, said Lord Balfour "gave away the Paleostinians’ homeland — a land that wasn’t his to give away". Yesterday evening protesters celebrated the "brave activist" involved in slashing the artwork, who "painted his portrait with the blood that remains on his hands today". Yesterday, pro-Paleostinian activist students also sprayed the University Institute for Manufacturing with red paint, over their links to companies with ties to Israel. Paleostine Action, the group responsible, targeted the front of the building, after stating that the Institute was a "centre of complicity". They said Cambridge had painted "blood on the institution’s walls for blood on the institution’s hands". Varsity is the independent newspaper for the University of Cambridge Related: Palestine Action: 2024-10-09 Anti-Israel activists vandalize UK offices of Germany’s Allianz with red paint for insuring Elbit Palestine Action: 2024-10-04 Australia charges woman for flying Hezbollah flag at anti-Israel protest Palestine Action: 2024-08-09 Anti-Israel Radicals Vandalize AIPAC Headquarters in Washington Related: Balfour 11/03/2024 Thousands at London anti-Israel march; Manchester activists steal bust of Chaim Weizmann Balfour 10/09/2024 Anti-Israel activists vandalize UK offices of Germany’s Allianz with red paint for insuring Elbit Balfour 08/09/2024 Anti-Israel Radicals Vandalize AIPAC Headquarters in Washington Related: Trinity College: 2024-03-10 UK pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activist spray-paints, slashes historic portrait of Balfour Trinity College: 2023-03-29 Russia in geocultural conflict with the collective West Trinity College: 2022-11-28 Is there any way to isolate them altogether? Related: Paleostine Action: 2024-11-03 Thousands at London anti-Israel march; Manchester activists steal bust of Chaim Weizmann Paleostine Action: 2024-10-09 Anti-Israel activists vandalize UK offices of Germany’s Allianz with red paint for insuring Elbit Paleostine Action: 2024-08-09 Anti-Israel Radicals Vandalize AIPAC Headquarters in Washington | |
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