Pro-Palestine protesters have defaced a painting of Lord Balfour at Trinity College Cambridge, yesterday, Friday.

Protest group Palestine Action shared images of an activist spraying it with red paint and slashing it.

The Conservative politician Balfour gave his name to the Balfour Declaration - a public statement issued by the British government on the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, leading the way for the founding of Israel in 1948.

The declaration, made in 1917, was contained within a letter from Balfour to Lord Rothschild, a British Jewish leader.

A statement from the activists said: “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.