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Over in the UK, at Trinity College in Cambridge, a pro-palestinian activist destroyed a painting of Lord Arthur Balfour, who made the declaration that helped lead to founding Israel's modern statehood:

A radical pro-Palestinian activist defaced a historic British painting depicting Lord Arthur James Balfour at Cambridge University over his ties to the formal establishment of the Jewish state of Israel.

Police have launched an investigation after an activist from the militant ‘Palestine Action’ activist group destroyed a 1914 portrait of Lord Balfour at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge on Friday. The activist slashed the painting with a knife and threw red paint on it.

A spokeswoman for the Cambridgeshire Police told the BBC: “This afternoon we received an online report of criminal damage today to a painting at Trinity College, Cambridge.

“Officers are attending the scene to secure evidence and progress the investigation. No arrests have been made at this stage.”

A spokeswoman for Trinity College added: “Trinity College regrets the damage caused to a portrait of Arthur James Balfour during public opening hours. The police have been informed. Support is available for any member of the college community affected.”

And all the while, people clearly just stood around and did nothing. That no arrests have been made speaks volumes, and will continue to do so if nothing's been done by the end of the month.

The Government’s independent adviser on political violence and disruption, Lord Walney, said earlier this month that there has been an “unholy alliance” formed between the far left in the UK and Islamic extremists while urging parliamentarians not to cave to pressure from radical forces.

Responding to the destruction of the portrait of Lord Balfour on Friday, Walney said: “This is outrageous. We must not tolerate protestors thinking they can get away with senseless damage because they think the importance of the cause gives them the moral high ground to cause mayhem. A number of recent judicial rulings have been troubling in this regard.”

As Robert Spencer recently made clear, however, this has become a chilling norm in the UK, which now kowtows to Islamic violence and less arrests of criminals made, if at all. "Protected class" status is offensive because it's only made things worse.

Update: also troubling is the news that Joe Biden's going to send troops to Gaza to supposedly deliver aid packages to Gazan Muslims, but not to rescue hostages from Hamas. Plenty can go wrong from this.

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