Palestine Action activists destroy portrait of Lord Balfour at Cambridge

Activists from Palestine Action spray-painted red and slashed with a box cutter a 1914 portrait of Lord Arthur Balfour by Philip Alexius de László at Trinity College, Cambridge. Balfour, UK Prime Minister from 1902 to 1905, issued the 1917 Balfour Declaration supporting a Jewish homeland in Palestine, which activists say initiated ethnic cleansing. The declaration, a letter to Lord Rothschild, is held at the British Library. Palestine Action's Instagram post states the declaration led to the Nakba, with British forces destroying over 500 villages and displacing 750,000 Palestinians, and that today Elbit Systems uses Britain as a manufacturing base for weapons tested on Palestinians.