On the evening of March 8th a short report was published on the BBC News website’s ‘Cambridgeshire’ page under the headline “Lord Balfour: Pro-Palestinian protesters damage University of Cambridge painting”.
That report opens with a simplistic claim: [emphasis added]
“Police have launched an investigation after a painting of a politician, linked to the creation of Israel, was damaged.
Palestine Action said one if its activists had “ruined” a 1914 painting of Lord Balfour at Trinity College, part of the University of Cambridge.
A statement on the group’s website said the painting had been “slashed” and sprayed with red paint.”
Credited to the BBC’s Harriet Heywood and PA reporter Brian Farmer, the report tells readers that:
“Lord Balfour was foreign secretary in 1917 when a declaration was made pledging Britain’s support for the establishment “in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” and has been seen by some historians as a starting point for the Arab-Israeli conflict.”
That link directs readers to a 2017 article by Yolande Knell which does not quote any historians making that claim about the Balfour Declaration.
Heywood and Farmer later promote an additional quote from the less hyperbolic and inaccurate parts of the statement on the ‘Palestine Action’ website which, notably, references a BBC report by Tom Bateman published in 2022.
“Palestine Action said, in a statement: “Palestine Action ruined a 1914 painting by Philip Alexius de László inside Trinity College, University of Cambridge of Lord Arthur James Balfour – the colonial administrator and signatory of the Balfour Declaration.”
They added that “an activist slashed the homage and sprayed the artwork with red paint”.”
As we see, beyond the epithet “pro-Palestinian” in the headline, Heywood and Farmer do not provide their readers with any information about the organisation behind this clear act of mindless vandalism.
As regular readers will know, that editorial policy has been in place at the BBC for a long time, meaning that audiences are serially denied information which would help them understand the agenda and actions of that radical group which denies Israel’s right to exist.
Although that context is critical for comprehension of this and other agitprop perpetrated by ‘Palestine Action’, the BBC continues to fail to provide it to members of its funding public, thereby compromising their ability to understand events in their own country.
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A major problem is that the spreading of woke IDE philosophy is regarded by Islamists purely as an invitation to infiltrate every influential organisation that exists – including the IPC (aka BBC), the Civil Service, the police, the media, etc – simply because their applications cannot be turned down. Wakey, wakey UK – your days are numbered !!
One should look at their web site – an eye opener. Who is behind them?
https://www.palestineaction.org/