Police are investigating reports of a burglary at a university in which two busts of the first president of Israel were taken.
Footage circulating online showed two masked people smashing a glass display case in the University of Manchester’s chemistry building and removing two busts of Chaim Weizmann, who had been a lecturer there in the early 1900s.
The Palestine Action Group said it had “abducted” the busts to mark Balfour Declaration of 2 November, 1917, in which British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour supported establishing a “national home for Jewish people”.
Greater Manchester Police said it had “received a report of a burglary at a university building on Oxford Road, Manchester… shortly before midnight last night”.
