(AP) — Pro-Palestinian activists said Saturday they have vandalized one of U.S. President Donald Trump’s golf resorts in Scotland in response to his proposal to empty the Gaza Strip of its Palestinian population.
Activists targeted Trump’s Turnberry golf course and hotel in southwest Scotland overnight, painting “Gaza Is Not For Sale” in giant letters on the lawn and using red spray paint on the club house’s exterior wall.
The group Palestine Action said it “rejects Dhttps://youtu.be/ieuq0IAmPz8?si=_nW_ojq_6Kg0W2k0onald Trump’s treatment of Gaza as though it were his property to dispose of as he likes.”
“To make that clear, we have shown him that his own property is not safe from acts of resistance,” it said in a statement.
Police Scotland said it received a report of damage to the golf course in the early hours of Saturday, and that inquiries are ongoing.
Trump Turnberry called the activism a “childish, criminal act” and said it will ensure it does not affect its business.
Turnberry is one of 10 courses on the rotation to host the British Open, the oldest of the four major championships in men’s golf.
However, it hasn’t staged the event since Trump bought the course in 2014 and renovated several holes.
In November, Martin Slumbers, who at that time was the chief executive of British Open organizer the R&A, said there were no immediate plans for the event to return to Turnberry.
