#balfours

[zanephillips]

ERIC BALFOUR Lie with Me (2005)

[agentfascinateur]

A reminder about Palestine:

Firstly, the existence of the country of Palestine was never in question. And secondly, as per the UK's own words in the oft-referred to "foundational" "Balfour Declaration":

"NOTHING SHALL BE DONE WHICH MAY PREJUDICE THE CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS RIGHTS OF EXISTING NON-JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN PALESTINE."

Plain as day.

[gayzing-away]

Eric Balfour behind the scenes of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

[forsapphics]

Abbi Jacobson & Jodi Balfour's Wedding (June 5, 2024)

photographed by Lucia Bell-Epstein (x)

[the-evil-clergyman]

Illustration from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Ronald Balfour (1920)

[theonlyadawong]

Much Ado About Nothing

Royal Shakespeare Company, 2022

Dir. Roy Alexander Weise

Photos by Ikin Yum

[wastrident]

Well ... you ain't gonna last much longer out here if you don't know how to hunt. Come on. I'll show you.

Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018)

[flexscene]

Joey Van Damme aka Shawn Balfour Jimmy Z’s BBJAM #35

[random-brushstrokes]

William Balfour Ker - From The Depths (1906)

[sinfulgeminii]

Eric Balfour for Flaunt magazine

[probablyasocialecologist]

When culture exists only to assuage the pride of the powerful and secure their legacy, when the work of Palestinian children can be taken down on request by Zionist lawyers, when poets do not live to see another day and neither do their children, what is art? What power does it actually have when over 30,000 people have been killed with impunity by a settler state? Not even the power of a custard pie dropped on someones head. In this context, art does not mean anything. It is useless.

And so, Palestine Action have taken up the only cultural expression worth having anymore - destruction. 

[zanephillips]

Eric Balfour as Duke Crocker Haven 1.11 "The Trial of Audrey Parker"

[taviamoth]

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 “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, where the majority of the indigenous population were not Jewish. He gave away the Palestinians homeland — a land that wasn’t 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 ‘home’ 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 — 80% of the Gaza population."

"Britain’s support for the continued colonisation of Palestine hasn’t wavered since 1917.

"Elbit Systems, Israel’s 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. "

[i-am-aprl]

BREAKING: Palestine Action spray and slash a historic painting of ‘Lord’ Balfour in Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

Written in 1917, Balfour’s declaration began the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by promising the land away — which the British never had the right to do.

After the Declaration, until 1948, the British burnt down indigenous villages to prepare the way; with this came arbitrary killings, arrests, torture and sexual violence including rape.

The British paved the way for the Nakba and trained the Zionist militia to ethnically cleanse over 750,000 Palestinians, destroy over 500 villages and massacre many families.

The Nakba never stopped and the genocide today is rooted and supported by British complicity.

Now, Elbit Systems, Israel’s biggest weapons manufacturer use Britain as a manufacturing outpost to build arms which are “battle-tested” on Palestinians.

[jinxproof]

Emma Balfour, 1993 | © Corinne Day

[arthursfuckinghat]

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