A Palestine protester has spray-painted and slashed a portrait of a former British Prime Minister hanging in a Cambridge college.
The Palestine Action activist targeted the painting of Lord Arthur Balfour at Trinity College, Cambridge, on Friday afternoon, and shared the footage on social media.Lord Balfour, who was a Conservative PM in the early twentieth century, is often credited with paving the way for the creation of the state of Israel.
Trinity said that they had let the police know about incident, which the government criticised in strong terms.Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden said he was "appalled by the moronic act of wanton vandalism"."Perpetrators should face the full force of the law," he added in a post on Twitter.Lord Walney, the government's adviser on political violence, said the incident was "outrageous".
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