David Wolchover

March 30, 2026, 11:11 am

Did Israel just settle Lockerbie’s oldest score?

As the Iran conflict intensifies, fresh scrutiny is falling on the true architects of the Pan Am bombing, which killed 270 people aboard Flight 103 and 11 Lockerbie residents, and on Israel’s long-delayed reckoning with them

By David Wolchover

A view shows Jordan Valley near the West Bank city of Jericho in the Israeli-occupied West Bank June 27, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

February 10, 2026, 2:43 pm

The case for a three-state solution

Jordan, Israel and a reconstructed Gaza may offer a more realistic endgame than the failed two-state model

By David Wolchover

Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference announcing a planned annexation of the West Bank.

September 8, 2025, 10:59 am

OPINION: Annexing what’s already yours? The legal case against the charge

Legal expert outlines how Israel has held sovereignty over West Bank and Gaza since 1948 under international law

By David Wolchover

March 18, 2024, 1:06 pm

OPINION: Against all odds: an epic story of childhood resilience in wartime Poland

As she celebrates her 90th birthday, David Wolchover narrates his cousin’s extraordinary story of survival as a small child in Nazi-occupied Poland.

By David Wolchover

May 10, 2023, 10:07 am

OPINION: Were Dee killers executed rather than being brought to justice in court of law?

Extra-judicial vengeance would hardly be out of kilter with the prime minister's vexatious plan to stem judicial intervention, speculates criminal barrister David Wolchover

By David Wolchover

Lucy Dee, 48, was killed in the terror attack along with two of her daughters.

April 11, 2023, 11:07 am

OPINION: The obscene rationale of random retaliation

Barrister David Wolchover reflects on the horrific events of recent days in Israel and the warped logic driving the Islamic fundamentalism of terror organisations like Hamas.

By David Wolchover

Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with President Joe Biden from his office in Jerusalem, Nov. 7, 2022. (Office of Benjamin Netanyahu.)

December 21, 2022, 11:51 am

OPINION: Be careful what you wish for in Netanyahu’s trials

Barrister David Wolchover urges Israelis to remain cognisant of wider consequences in relentless legal fight against Israel's prime minister in waiting.

By David Wolchover

December 1, 2022, 2:49 pm

OPINION: Dropping of case against Jew-baiters was suspect

Author and barrister David Wolchover questions the competence of the Crown Prosecution Service after its failure to charge those accused of taking part in the now infamous 'hate convoy'.

By David Wolchover

May 4, 2022, 10:32 am

OPINION: Let’s once and for all bury the myth of Hitler’s Zeider

Sergei Lavrov is wrong; Hitler did not have “Jewish blood”.

By David Wolchover

Lord Janner. Photo credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

October 22, 2020, 3:00 pm

OPINION: Mock trial of Lord Janner smacks of sinister intent

Lawyer David Wolchover reflects on the ongoing Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA)

By David Wolchover

A view of eastern Amman from Jabal al-Qal'a

May 28, 2020, 3:22 pm

OPINION: Why the West Bank must again be part of Jordan

As Israel ponders annexation of the Jordan Valley, David Wolchover looks over some history and argues for the land to be handed back to its neighbour

By David Wolchover

A Palestinian boy looks behind a wall separating Jewish part and Palestinian part of the West Bank. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

May 18, 2020, 3:50 pm

OPINION: There can be a ‘two-state’ solution palatable to all

As Israel's new government is sworn in - with a pledge to annex the Jordan Valley in the West Bank - David Wolchover reflects on the difficulties of compromise

By David Wolchover

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya speaks at the Likud headquarters on elections night in Tel Aviv, on September 18, 2019. Photo by: JINIPIX

January 10, 2020, 11:05 am

OPINION: Israeli prosecutors are wrong to indict the PM

As Israel prepares to go to the polls for the third time in 12 months, David Wolchover says it was a bad move to charge the incumbent leader

By David Wolchover

December 21, 2018, 9:34 am

OPINION: US-Saudi alliance vital for hopes of regional stability

David Wolchover reflects on the regional impact of Donald Trump's policies towards Saudi Arabia

By David Wolchover

September 13, 2018, 2:03 pm

OPINION: Is Israel morally obliged to fix Palestinian folly?

David Wolchover reflects on the Jewish state's role and responsibility in solving the Palestinian's plight, given the debate over the conflict today

By David Wolchover

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