Daniel Machover is the head of civil litigation for Hickman & Rose Solicitors in London, UK and was the co-founder of Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights in 1988.
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Early life

According to an interview in ''

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'', "Close observations of his parents' treatment at the hands of the Israeli authorities – including the strip-searching of his mother – heightened Machover's awareness of the potential for those in uniform to abuse their powers". His father, Professor

Moshé Machover Moshé Machover ( he, משה מחובר; born 1936) is a mathematician, philosopher, and socialist activist, noted for his writings against Zionism. Born to a Jewish family in Tel Aviv, then part of the British Mandate of Palestine, Machover move ...

, was one of the founders of the Israeli socialist group

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, and Daniel refers to his parents as "anti-Zionist Israelis".

Career

Machover's work with prisoners alleging brutality at

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in London led to an official Prison Service report, which found that "more than 160 prison officers were involved in inflicting and covering up a regime of torture which saw savage beatings, death threats and sexual assault inflicted on inmates". Machover represents the

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR, ar, المركز الفلسطيني لحقوق الإنسان) is a Palestinian people, Palestinian human rights organization based in Gaza City. It was founded in 1995 by Raji Sourani, who is its d ...

, a Gaza-based

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, which, according to Anne Herzberg, legal adviser to

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, is "leading the

lawfare Lawfare is the use of legal systems and institutions to damage or delegitimize an opponent, or to deter individual's usage of their legal rights.''Unrestricted Warfare''p. 55 The term may refer to the use of legal systems and principles against ...

strategy." He was involved in obtaining a warrant on behalf of Palestinians to arrest Israeli General

Doron Almog Doron Almog (born 1951 as Doron Avrotzky) is a former major general in the Israel Defense Forces reserves. In 2016, he received the Israel Prize for his lifetime of achievement.

on a visit to London for alleged war crimes, but was never acted upon by British police. Machover was also involved in obtaining a warrant from a British court to arrest

Tzipi Livni Tziporah Malka "Tzipi" Livni ( he, ציפי (ציפורה) מלכה לבני, ; born 8 July 1958) is an Israeli politician, diplomat, and lawyer. A former member of the Knesset and leader in the center-left political camp, Livni is a former fore ...

, the foreign minister of Israel, when she visited London. This action failed as Livni received a warning that she would be arrested if she entered Britain.
Tzipi Livni Gaza Arrest Machover is Chair of the Trustees of the charity Inquest (charity), Inquest, which works in the field of deaths in custody and detention in England and Wales.

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Hickman & Rose Solicitors biography

Early life

Career

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