A member of Palestine Action, an anti-Israel group, slashed and sprayed paint on a portrait of Arthur James Balfour at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge.

A pro-Palestinian protester destroys a painting of Lord Balfour at the University of Cambridge.

As foreign secretary in the Lloyd George ministry, he issued the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which supported a “home for the Jewish people”.pic.twitter.com/eaxzymJTfx

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As foreign secretary, Lord Balfour backed the formation of an Israeli state in the Balfour Declaration of 1917:

Dear Lord Rothschild,

I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.

“His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”

I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.

Yours,
Arthur James Balfour

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