Daniel Machover: what Wikipedia removed
Daniel Machover is a British lawyer known for pursuing war crimes litigation against Israeli officials. Through 2010 the opening said the United Nations Goldstone Report “accused Israel of war crimes against the civilian population of Gaza, during its 2008-9 assault on the Gaza Strip,” and that Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni “would be personally guilty of war crimes” if the charge were upheld by a British court. Today the opening says only that he is “head of civil litigation for Hickman & Rose Solicitors” and co-founder of Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights; war crime appears 0 times in the opening now and survives once in the body. A reader today learns his job title and the group he co-founded, and not that his notability rests on pursuing war crimes accusations against Israeli officials, including a sitting foreign minister.
The word “war crime” appeared 4 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 1. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| war crime | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- The detail that his father, Professor Moshé Machover, was one of the founders of a named group is gone from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 350830753):
Daniel Machover is the head of civil litigation for Hickman & Rose Solicitors in London and was the co-founder of Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights in 1988. His father, Professor Moshé Machover , was one of the founders of the Israeli anarchist socialist group Matzpen . According to an interview in The Independent , “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”. . Machover’s work with prisoners alleging brutality at Wormwood Scrubs Prison in London led to an official Prison Service report, which found that “mor…
2025 (revision 1274231768):
British lawyer 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. ^ Making a case for the underdog , The Independent . Retrieved 2 November 1999
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