Tal Zalmanovich

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Postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the ERC funded project APARTHEID-STOPS that studies the transnational circulation of anti-apartheid expressive culture., Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Nelson Mandela garnered much support from the UK during apartheid in opposition of the then government’s stance. Kim Ludbrook/EPA

August 2, 2018

Tal Zalmanovich, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

From the early 1980s, local governments in the UK began renaming streets, housing estates and community centres after Mandela as an act of protest.

Anti-apartheid cleric Trevor Huddleston, centre, with South African liberation struggle icons Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela in 1991. EPA/Stringer

May 29, 2018

Tal Zalmanovich, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Bishop Huddleston’s criticism of Enoch Powell’s incendiary “Rivers of blood” speech was both a history lesson and a call to action against racism.