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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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The Strawman Of Antisemitism: Banning Protests Against Israel Down Under
Thursday, 19 December 2024, 2:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Ever the opportunist, Netanyahu saw a chance to see unsubstantiated links between the bombing in Melbourne, Australian foreign policy and antisemitism. The conclusion was childishly simple: “Anti-Israel sentiment is antisemitism.” More >>
Feeding Chaos: Israel Cripples Syria’s Defence
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 2:54 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Israeli troops have militarised the demilitarised zone inside Syria created in the aftermath of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, including Mount Hermon, a site overlooking Damascus. More >>
Last Acts: Time For Biden To Pardon Assange
Tuesday, 17 December 2024, 3:10 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Assange campaign has now shifted its focus to obtaining a pardon for the publisher, with a goal of persuading up to 30,000 people to write to US President Joe Biden to do just that. More >>
Foiling Rupert Murdoch: Project Harmony Misfires
Monday, 16 December 2024, 8:39 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Media vultures in search of carrion see this ruling as remarkable – probably more so than it is. More >>
Finding The Unmentionable: Amnesty International, Israel And Genocide
Saturday, 14 December 2024, 2:46 pm | Binoy Kampmark
No amount of pedantry and disagreement can arrest the sense that Israel’s lethal conduct, whatever threshold it may reach in international law, is directed at destroying not merely Palestinian life but any worthwhile sense of a viable sovereignty. More >>
Ding Dong, Australia’s Misinformation-Disinformation Bill Is Dead
Wednesday, 11 December 2024, 3:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Facing certain defeat, the Albanese government revealed its position a few days later. “Based on public statements and engagements with senators, it is clear that there is no pathway to legislate this proposal through the Senate,” conceded Communications ... More >>
The Sectarian Risk: Turkey’s Syrian Mission
Sunday, 8 December 2024, 7:39 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Turkey's intervention in Syria’s conflict was motivated by 2 main goals: the containment, if not elimination, of Kurdish militants in northern Syria, & creating conditions of stability or “safe zones” that would enable a return of Syrian refugees when ... More >>
FIFA’s Cooked Findings: Saudi Arabia’s World Cup Bid
Saturday, 7 December 2024, 2:49 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Not all has been smooth on the matter of endorsing FIFA’s decision, at least at the level of various football organisations whose approval is also sought. But even there, Saudi sporting strategy has been in evidence to ensure a lack of dissent. More >>
The Syrian Civil War: New Phases, Old Lies
Tuesday, 3 December 2024, 4:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
For one, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has a series of goals. It purports to be an indigenous movement keen on eliminating the Assad regime, establishing Islamic rule and expelling all Iranian militias from Syrian soil. More >>
Gallic Stubbornness: France, Netanyahu And The ICC Arrest Warrants
Saturday, 30 November 2024, 6:09 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The French approach waters down the effect of the warrants by effectively rejecting ICC jurisdiction over Israel’s officials & commanders, despite the court’s own finding that it had jurisdiction by virtue of Israel’s operations on Palestinian ... More >>
Ironic Dependency: Russian Uranium And The US Energy Market
Wednesday, 27 November 2024, 2:23 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Russia provides some 27% of enrichment service purchases for US utilities. The Russian state-owned company Rosatom is alone responsible for arranging imports of low-enriched uranium into the US market at some 3 million SWU (Separative Work Units) annually. More >>
Arrest Warrants From The Hague: The ICC, Netanyahu And Gallant
Tuesday, 26 November 2024, 2:15 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The arrest warrants, issued in accordance with the law of international armed conflict, remain the most telling aspect of the determinations. Despite being classified as “secret”, the Chamber deemed it important to release some degree of detail on ... More >>
Fencing The Ocean: Australia’s Social Media Safety Bill
Saturday, 23 November 2024, 7:36 pm | Binoy Kampmark
These laws constitute yet another effort to concentrate power and responsibilities best held by the citizenry in the hands of a bureaucratic-political class governed by paranoia and procedure. More >>
Trump, AUKUS And Australia’s Dim Servitors
Friday, 22 November 2024, 6:51 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Australia’s government has abandoned all pretence of resistance, measure or judgment, outrageously willing to underwrite the US imperium in any of its needs in countering China, raiding the treasury of taxpayer funds to the tune of a figure that will, ... More >>
Thank You For Emitting: The Hypocrisies Of COP29
Tuesday, 19 November 2024, 1:40 pm | Binoy Kampmark
COP29 was always going to be memorable, for no other reason than the hosting country, Azerbaijan, is a petrostate indifferent to the issue of emissions and scornful of ecological preachers. It has seen its natural gas supply grow by 128% between 2000 ... More >>
Natural Resources And Palestinian Sovereignty: Israel’s Further Isolation
Sunday, 17 November 2024, 9:40 pm | Binoy Kampmark
While disease, hunger and death continue to stalk the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank remains under the thick thumb of occupation, deliberations in foreign fora continue to take place about how to address this hideous state of affairs. More >>
Blinken Atrocious In A Dangerous World
Friday, 15 November 2024, 1:34 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The Biden administration, through the good offices of Blinken, continues to insist on the vitality of the US imperium. But US hegemony long left unchallenged is, most certainly, at an end. More >>
They Were There First: Election Denialism, The Democratic Way
Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 1:07 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Instead of vanishing as aberrant over the Biden years, Trumpism has come home to roost in winning, not only the Electoral College but the majority vote by convincing margins. More >>
The Remembrance Day Amnesia Racket
Tuesday, 12 November 2024, 1:47 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The statement here is not “lest we forget” but “what should be remembered?” Corpses are only memorable if they are useful. The fallen serve as bricks and masonry for the next slaughter, engineered by war criminals, the negligent and the incompetent. More >>
The Musings Of Shigeru Ishiba: Visions Of An Asian NATO
Monday, 11 November 2024, 1:16 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Kritenbrink’s analysis hardly gets away from the suspicion that the “latticework” theory of US security in the Indo-Pacific is but a form of NATO in embryo. More >>
