By Bella Wallersteiner Defacing a portrait of a former Prime Minister, as pro-Palestine activists did last week, is an attack on democracy itself, argues Bella Wallersteiner When a protestor drenched a portrait of former Prime Minister Lord Balfour in red paint and slashed it to pieces she didn’t just attack a work of art, she assaulted democracy itself. This act of vandalism took place at Trinity College, Cambridge and was recorded on video and posted on social media by Palestine Action. Such wanton destruction of historical artefacts is not justifiable under any circumstances. It displays a …