Posted on 03/08/2024 12:30:12 PM PST by Beowulf9
The painting depicts Arthur Balfour, author of the 1917 declaration that established Britain’s aim to create a Jewish state in Palestine.
Members of the activist group Palestine Action spray-painted and slashed a portrait of British former Prime Minister Arthur James Balfour on view at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. The protest action was documented in a video posted to Instagram today, March 8, by the organizing group along with other pro-Palestine accounts.
In the video, a brown-haired individual wearing a dark blue puffer jacket sprays what appears to be red aerosol paint on the work, a 1914 painting by Anglo-Hungarian artist Philip de László, before proceeding to tear into its canvas with some type of blade or boxcutter.
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This incident portrays, in microcosm, what islam is doing to western culture as a whole: destruction of our traditions and values. Islam is great at tearing down civilizations. In fact, this is islam’s only accomplishment historically.
Yep. The West, in its infinite stupidity, invites the very cancer in that it spent previous centuries at bay to avoid this very conclusion. Nobody studies history anymore. It took Spain 700 years to kick out that filth, and now their invited in, given welfare from cradle to grave, and elected into positions of power. Talk about committing societal suicide....coming to the USA very soon.
I agree. The situation is also rather dire in once Great Britain. Their society is being eviscerated by the burgeoning muslim infestation.
Where is Yoko Ono? Give Peace a chance? No? Don’t say that to Islam?
Part of the problem is that once the problem (Muslim aggression) reveals itself, it is too late.
Balfour was an old man well past his policy making years. He signed the “Balfour declaration” as he was in cabinet officially as foreign secretary, but in truth was somthing of a figurehead. This was all intra-party political arrangements due to the need for a WWI coalition government.
All these decisions were most likely made by the small group that constituted the War Cabinet.
I don’t care about Balfour. I care about the art.
Up to a point, but Balfour’s own part was a lot more significant than you suggest. It was the editor of the Manchester Guardian, C P Scott, who had been running a long press campaign arguing for a Jewish state, who was the vital link in introducing Chaim Weizmann to Balfour, as he was a friend of both. Balfour thereafter took a strong personal interest, and made vital (indeed passionate) speeches in support of Weizmann at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. It was the Balfour/Weizmann double act in Paris which persuaded the allies to accept the principle, and thereafter to give Britain the provisional Palestinian ‘mandate’ (despite a tussle with France, who wanted the whole Levant including Syria).
I am corrected, thanks. I was just thinking of the wartime “declaration”.
If only it were a photo of an inverted crucifix in p!ss. Great art like that should be sacred.
/sarc, in case you need to be told.
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