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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/arts/design/balfour-declaration-portrait-slashed.html
Pro-Palestinian Activists Damage Portrait of Balfour at University of Cambridge
(New York Times) Marc Tracy - A pro-Palestinian group slashed and spray-painted a century-old portrait of British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour at the University of Cambridge on Friday. The British official's Balfour Declaration pledged support in 1917 for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people," which helped pave the way to Israel's founding three decades later.