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Binoy Kampmark
Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne.
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Rogue States And Thought Crimes: Israel Strikes Iran
Saturday, 14 June 2025, 3:33 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The broader Israeli logic here is less the coherence of the nuclear threat than one of settling scores and crippling a rival it has long accused of directing operations against its interests, if not directly than through its proxy militias. More >>
AUKUS: A Very Antipodean Stupidity
Saturday, 14 June 2025, 2:41 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Washington’s interests come first, and Australia’s own idiotically misplaced interests are barely visible in the White House situation room. More >>
The Morality Of Small Means: Sanctioning Israel’s Ministers
Friday, 13 June 2025, 1:51 pm | Binoy Kampmark
One point is certainly true: the selective moves against the dastardly two leaves the murderous apparatus intact, and the IDF war machine undiminished. Most of all, it will do nothing to halt the construction of a single settlement or save a single ... More >>
Catching Israel Out: Gaza And The Madleen “Selfie” Protest
Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 7:30 am | Binoy Kampmark
As the formalities are being chewed over, the broader designation of the effort by the Madleen and her crew as those of a “selfie yacht” offer the pool’s reflection to Israeli authorities. More >>
Bad Old Habits: Israel Backs Palestinian Militias In Gaza
Saturday, 7 June 2025, 3:17 pm | Binoy Kampmark
With Hamas now the target and sworn enemy, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu feels that the same, failed experiment adopted at stages since the 1970s can be replicated: backing and encouraging yet another group of Palestinians to undermine any sovereign ... More >>
The Inevitable Souring: Elon Musk Falls Out With Donald Trump
Friday, 6 June 2025, 12:47 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Trump’s response to Musk’s latest gobbet of accusation proved almost melancholic. “I don’t mind Elon turning against me, but he should have done so months ago.” He went on to praise “one of the Greatest Bills ever presented to Congress.” More >>
Off To War We Go: Starmer’s Strategic Defence Review
Tuesday, 3 June 2025, 12:36 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Despite a mammoth majority and a dramatically diminished Tory opposition, the Prime Minister acts like a man permanently besieged, his Labour Party seemingly less popular than Typhoid Mary. His inability to be unequivocal to questions of whether he will ... More >>
Thieves In The Kitchen: The Stealing Of Recipes
Monday, 2 June 2025, 3:23 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Iconoclastic Jonathan Meades rightly notes that the pathology of originality arises from the emergence of the cult chef, the God creator in the kitchen. More >>
Humanitarian Camouflage: The Debut Of The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
Saturday, 31 May 2025, 8:05 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In both practice and spirit, this seedy, cynical enterprise violates the four essential principles of humanitarian action: humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence. More >>
Roads To War: The EU’s Security Action For Europe Fund
Thursday, 29 May 2025, 2:59 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The broader militarisation agenda is confirmed by linking SAFE with broader transatlantic engagement and “complementarity with NATO.” More >>
Squabbling Siblings: India, Pakistan And Operation Sindoor
Wednesday, 28 May 2025, 7:53 am | Binoy Kampmark
The only ones to be notably ignored in this display of subcontinental machismo were the Kashmiris themselves, who face, in both the Pakistan and Indian administered zones, oppressive anti-terrorism laws, discriminatory practices and suppression of ... More >>
The Killing Of Israeli Embassy Staffers: Netanyahu’s Antisemitism Canard
Sunday, 25 May 2025, 2:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Fanaticism diminishes the horizon, leaving human beings bare, and hollow, and naked. And that baring is currently underway with remorseless intensity in Gaza. More >>
The Ethnic Cleansing Of Gaza: Israel’s Operation Gideon’s Chariots
Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 2:47 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The extent of the horror has now reached the point where it is being acknowledged in the capitals of Israel’s close allies. A joint statement from the UK, France and Canada affirmed opposition to “the expansion of Israel’s military operations ... More >>
Celluloid Exploitation: Immigrants And Reality Television
Tuesday, 20 May 2025, 12:37 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Why not act out the entire migrant experience with reality television individuals with particularly xenophobic views? More >>
Rehabilitation And Confidence Tricks: al-Sharaa, Trump And Sanctions
Sunday, 18 May 2025, 4:29 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Things have come full circle. The Assad dynasts, who kept a watchful eye on fundamentalist Islamists, are gone. The Islamists, with their various backers, Turkey and Saudi Arabia being most prominent, are now nominally in charge. More >>
Trump, Planes And The Arabian Gulf Tour
Friday, 16 May 2025, 12:50 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In a shameless effort to outdo Riyadh, the Qatari royal family threw in a luxury 747 plane worth $400 million for the US Department of Defense, intended for Trump’s use as a temporary substitute Air Force One. More >>
Commemorating Mummy: Reflections On Mother’s Day
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 2:00 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The day itself denigrates the mother in false respect and guilts the family for ignorance to that fact. It sanctifies a family relation for reasons of commercial worth. More >>
White Smoke And Speculation: The Election Of Pope Leo XIV
Sunday, 11 May 2025, 3:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
A mischievous remark was once made by an Australian commentator on Church matters that you would have better chances picking a winner at the Melbourne Cup horse race than the next pontiff. More >>
Bratty Royal: Prince Harry And Bespoke Security Protection
Friday, 9 May 2025, 1:07 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The latest tremor of narcissistic display on the Duke’s part involved an interview with the BBC which could be billed as confession and advertisement: “I confess; I advertise”, with an afterthought of “Please Forgive Me Daddy” while funding ... More >>
Expulsion And Occupation: Israel’s Proposed Gaza Plan
Thursday, 8 May 2025, 7:17 am | Binoy Kampmark
Within the Israeli cabinet, ethnocentric and religious fires burn with bright fanaticism. The Israeli Finance Finister Bezalel Smotrich remains a figure who ignores floral subtlety in favour of the blood-stained sledgehammer. More >>
