Why? The reason is simple: exponent of the Conservative Party, with the “Balfour” statement argued the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. The declaration, a letter written to the main representative of the Jewish community in England, Lord Rothschild, underlined Great Britain’s full support for the creation of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, which was under Ottoman rule at the time, respecting the rights of resident minorities. The Balfour Declaration was included in the Treaty of Sèvres, which established the end of hostilities with Turkey and assigned Palestine to the United Kingdom. In other words, the starting point for the State of Israel.
Activists destroyed a historic painting of ‘Lord’ Balfour in Trinity College, University of Cambridge. pic.twitter.com/Ldk3EGyAvt
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) March 8, 2024
The painting has been lost forever and the Cambridge action demonstrates the violence of certain avowedly anti-Zionist groups. In the claim posted on social media, the pro-Pal highlighted: “Written in 1917, the Balfour Declaration began the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by promising to cede the land to the Jewish people, without the British having the right to do so. After the declaration, and until 1948, the British always burned indigenous villages to clear the way, resulting in arrests, torture, sexual violence and murder. The British pioneered the Nakba and trained the Zionist militia to ethnically cleanse over 750,000 Palestinians, destroy over 500 villages and massacre many families.” And again: “The Nakba never stopped and the genocide today is rooted in and supported by British complicity. Now, Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms manufacturer, uses Britain as a manufacturing outpost to build weapons that are ‘field tested’ on Palestinians.”
Born to counter “British complicity in Israeli apartheid”, Palestine Action has decided to raise the bar by eliminating – or rather sanctioning, considering the nature of the actions – a work of art. The anti-Semitism that becomes cancel culture, in the wake of what was recorded in other major Western capitals. The events in Cambridge represent a wake-up call and the biggest mistake would be to underestimate the episode, comparing it to the classic useless actions of eco-vandals. High guard.
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