The protest group Palestine Action has slashed a painting of Lord Balfour housed at the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College.
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.”
If art of the dude responsible for the genocide makes you lose sympathy for the victims, then maybe it’s time to stop pretending you care at all and just embrace the genocide.
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.
Sure. But I still think the destruction of art is destruction of history, regardless of how someone feels about it. If you don't like it in public, then it's better to take it down and store it somewhere else for preservation purposes if nothing else.