Moshé Machover

Moshé Machover was born in 1936 in Tel-Aviv, Palestine. As a student, he joined the Israeli Communist Party, from which he was expelled in 1962 together with a small group of party dissidents who challenged the ICP’s lack of internal democracy and its subservience to the Soviet Union. In the same year they founded the Socialist Organisation In Israel, better known by the name of its journal, Matzpen, an independent radical left group. Moshé Machover is a mathematician. He taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the university of Bristol, and at King’s College, London; he is emeritus professor at London University, and has been living in London since late 1968. Apart from academic books and papers on mathematical logic and social choice (the mathematical theory of collective decision-making), he has written extensively on socialist theory, particularly as applied to Israel, the Middle East and the Israeli–Palestinian colonial conflict. A collection of his essays, Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and Resolution was published in 2012. Many of his more recent articles were published and are archived in Weekly Worker.