Palestine Action activists destroyed a 1914 painting of Arthur James Balfour, the colonial administrator and signatory of the Balfour Declaration.
Palestine Action stated, "An activist slashed the homage and sprayed the artwork with red paint, symbolising the bloodshed of the Palestinian people since the Balfour Declaration was issued in 1917. "
"Arthur Balfour, then UK Foreign secretary, issued a declaration which promised to build āa national home for the Jewish peopleā in Palestine, where the majority of the indigenous population were not Jewish. He gave away the Palestinians homeland ā a land that wasnāt his to give away."
"After the Declaration, until 1948, the British burnt down indigenous villages to prepare the way; with this came arbitrary killings, arrests, torture, sexual violence including rape against women and men, the use of human shields and the introduction of home demolitions as collective punishment to repress Palestinian resistance."
"The British were initiating the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, fulfilling the Zionist aim to build their āhomeā over the top of what were Palestinian communities, towns, villages, farms and ancestral land, rich in heritage, culture and ancient archeological history."
"In the past 154 days of genocide in Gaza, Israel has killed over 30,000 Palestinians, injured over 72,000 and displaced over 1.9million ā 80% of the Gaza population."
"Britainās support for the continued colonisation of Palestine hasnāt wavered since 1917.
"Elbit Systems, Israelās largest arms supplier, who use captive Palestinians in Gaza as a human laboratory to develop their weapons, use Britain as a manufacturing outpost. The Israeli weapons maker build weaponry in factories across the country and work closely with the British government.
"Palestine Action vows to continue their direct campaign until Elbit is shut down and British complicity with the colonisation of Palestine ends. "