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Right wing authoritarianism isn’t subtle.


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Pro-Palestinian protesters a part of a group called “𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧,” vandalized a historic painting of Arthur James Balfour at Trinity College Cambridge in England.

Arthur Balfour wrote the Balfour Declaration of 1917 when he was serving as the British Foreign Minister. The letter expressed Britain's support for a Jewish Homeland in what is now Israel.

Direct link(should work for a bit): https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1766117900644151296/vid/avc1/720x1280/pQDXaeuPY2vYbJdX.mp4?tag=14

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

...Arthur Balfour died in 1930 and was painted in 1914 (7 years after the oldest living person was born). It's hanging in Trinity College, not the National Gallery. It's really not a culturally significant piece of art.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago

The painting is actually more recent than I thought, but destroying it is still scummy.