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OPINION - Why is Trinity College Cambridge so silent about one of its portraits being destroyed by Palestine Action?

On March 8, an unnamed woman, part of a group called Action, , Cambridge. ( studied there from 1866-69: this must be the connection). She cut it seven times with a knife and sprayed red paint over Balfour’s face. All this was filmed for some gruesome archive. The ’s crime, of course, is that it pictured the man who authored the of 1917, which included the line: “His Majesty’s government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a

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