Pro Palestinian supporters destroy painting of Lord Balfour

GrannyGravy13

Ilovecheese

Why have you put "supporters " as plural when it was one person only?

When I first saw this story online they were saying supporters news stories change/evolve as more facts become available.

I am glad you have cleared that up, thank you. I think it shows how the press try to influence public opinion, they are trying to paint all the people who support Palestine as vandals. Which, of course, they are not.

Nothing new there …

Glorianny you are trying to defend the indefensible and failing…

GrannyGravy13

I am amazed that posters are happy to condone vandalism just because it is in the name of a cause thy support, with the added

There is a long history of women damaging art as a protest

and

it can be restored

It is an illegal act with the intention to destruct an artwork, no ifs or buts.

So was the damaging of the Rokeby Venus, arguably a much more important painting, in a far less important cause.

It may be illegal.
But there is such a thing as moral justice and in this case that prevails over legal justice. It is immoral to sit by and watch a people being destroyed.

They are no different to the stop oil protestors

Thismight make new generations take a fresh look
What? By damaging property in an educational institution? I don't care who protests, nor about their cause, that's their business, but there's a time, a place and a manner.

Definitely an illegal act

👏👏👏 It is indefensible.

I am amazed that posters are happy to condone vandalism just because it is in the name of a cause thy support, with the added

There is a long history of women damaging art as a protest

and

it can be restored

It is an illegal act with the intention to destruct an artwork, no ifs or buts.

Remember the old advert ,A picture paints a thousand words? Does THIS picture of a man who made massive mistakes and DIDN'T rectify them,worth tens of thousands of lives including babies,young children and innocent people who just want a decent life.I ask again WHY aren't we bringing the government of Israel to book ?

If you approved of me I would be devastated Paddyann.

maddyone Ukraine has been at war for over two years and has had huge support from the west.Palestinians have been treated abominably for 7 decades by Israel .UN resolutions have been ignored time after time,currently almost 3000 palestinians are being held in Israeli jails ...most without charge many of them children.Where in INTERNATIONAL law is this treatment of innocent people, trying to go about their lives under the worst of circumstances ,not just ALLOWED but accepted ? I despair of many of the people on this site who are of an age where they SHOULD have learned the facts .ISRAEL is the agressor Palestinians have been victims for certainly all of my life yet we haven't stopped selling or giving them weapons and sanctions haven't been brought against them.WHY?

maddyone

I find the approval of the destruction of a displayed painting, hung up for visitors to view, very, very strange. There are other ways to protest, although I’m heartily sick of seeing the almost weekly marches in London (and elsewhere) and frankly I think they should be stopped. When we’ve reached the stage of Palestinian flags draped over lampposts down the streets of London, it’s gone too far. Destroying a painting has gone too far.
When I see weekly marches in support of the Ukrainians, I’ll reconsider.

maddyone we are providing Ukranians with weapons and support, we have taken in those who had to leave the country. Nothing has been done to support the Palestinians that's why people are acting.

Okay damaged. Still no excuse!

I find the approval of the destruction of a displayed painting, hung up for visitors to view, very, very strange. There are other ways to protest, although I’m heartily sick of seeing the almost weekly marches in London (and elsewhere) and frankly I think they should be stopped. When we’ve reached the stage of Palestinian flags draped over lampposts down the streets of London, it’s gone too far. Destroying a painting has gone too far.
When I see weekly marches in support of the Ukrainians, I’ll reconsider.

It isn't "destroyed" it is damaged. There is a long history of women damaging art as a protest. The Rokeby Venus was slashed many times by a suffragette. It's been repaired and the damage scarcely shows womensarttours.com/slashing-venus-suffragettes-and-vandalism/

Paintings can be restored. The thousands of Palestinians killed and injured, and those who have lived through this nightmare can never be repaired.
I know where my sympathies lie.

Good luck to them with Palestinian rules. They are not lenient on what they think of as sinners. I wouldn’t want to be homosexual, an adulterer, a trans gender person or even consider such a sin as abortion where they come from.

It got them noticed but in a very negative way. It risks painting pro Palestinian protesters as vandalous idiots.

It will do the very opposite, watched a video yesterday, people taking Palastinian flags off lampposts and other public places
saying ‘we have not been occupied’ . Saw a video of a man with the usual scarves on claiming’this is no longer a Christian Country’

paddyann54

It got them noticed! In a world that has sat on its hands for decades ,surely the lives lost are more important than a painting of a man who publicly acknowledged he had made mistakes in his "declaration" of a Jewish homeland.Mistakes that cost Palestinians dear.
I have no interest in this old boy except for this mess that he left behind.This might make new generations take a fresh look at the mess politicians leave in their wake ,hopefully someone can find a solution...even all these decades later and in this way he might have been useful after all...or not!

I completely agree with you about the mistakes made, and I really hope it does get the new generations looking afresh at how this conflict had arisen but I don't really think that actions like this will further the cause unfortunately.. I say this as a member of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign

It got them noticed! In a world that has sat on its hands for decades ,surely the lives lost are more important than a painting of a man who publicly acknowledged he had made mistakes in his "declaration" of a Jewish homeland.Mistakes that cost Palestinians dear.
I have no interest in this old boy except for this mess that he left behind.This might make new generations take a fresh look at the mess politicians leave in their wake ,hopefully someone can find a solution...even all these decades later and in this way he might have been useful after all...or not!

Ilovecheese

Why have you put "supporters " as plural when it was one person only?

When I first saw this story online they were saying supporters news stories change/evolve as more facts become available.

How can anyone be so deluded to think this furthers the Palestinian cause.. beyond me

Why have you put "supporters " as plural when it was one person only?

ronib

Completely pointless senseless gesture politics. So entitled too.

Agreed.