Binoy Kampmark

Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne.

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Clear Conclusions: A UN Commission Finds Israel Responsible For Genocide In Gaza

Thursday, 18 September 2025, 12:14 pm | Binoy Kampmark

This report finds itself in the adhesive if gruesome company of such publications as Amnesty International’s December 2024 effort, You Feel Like You are Subhuman to the August 2025 conclusions of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. More >>

Suspending Courses, Washing Delicates And Baking: A University Justifies Harming Staff And Students

Wednesday, 17 September 2025, 12:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark

Should courage ever be mustered by cowed academics and the atomised student body, the cosmos of the vice-chancellor and those complicit in sustaining it can finally be terminated with little sorrow and much relish. More >>

After Five Decades, It Comes To This: The PNG-Australia Pukpuk Treaty

Tuesday, 16 September 2025, 12:02 pm | Binoy Kampmark

With each utterance on sovereignty from Canberra, officials in Port Moresby would do well to consider the implications of the pact. PNG may have existed as a nominally independent state for fifty years, but that independence is set to come to an end. More >>

Kicking Downwards: Australia Excludes The Pacific Island Press Corps

Tuesday, 16 September 2025, 7:33 am | Binoy Kampmark

Australia, long known as Washington’s regional deputy sheriff, looks down on its Pacific Island neighbours as basket cases for charity, potential enclaves for terrorism, and vulnerable to the temptation of rival powers. More >>

Superfluous Appointments: Albania’s Sunny AI Minister

Saturday, 13 September 2025, 2:15 pm | Binoy Kampmark

Rather than focusing on solutions that would presumably draw on people, insight and experience, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama thinks that appointing the world’s first AI minister is the way to go. Less messy, less problematic. Fewer people to ... More >>

Buying Time: Israel’s Rogue Attack On Qatar

Thursday, 11 September 2025, 1:40 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The Israeli PM’s list of legal woes is further reason time is being bought. Israel’s strikes across the Middle East this year have been efforts to keep war in the spotlight, peace suspended, and Netanyahu out of jail. More >>

Destroying Gaza City

Tuesday, 9 September 2025, 2:18 pm | Binoy Kampmark

In such exercises, distinguishing between civilians and combatants no longer takes place. Targets, and culpability, are conflated, as they have been from the outset. The next hellish stage is being set. More >>

Blunting Justice: Trump And The International Criminal Court

Friday, 5 September 2025, 1:03 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The International Criminal Court bash fest is getting ever more frenetic in Washington and among the law shredding members of the Netanyahu cabinet in Israel. Last month, the Trump administration smacked sanctions on judicial members Kimberly Prost of ... More >>

Nuclear Snobbery And Atomic Anniversaries

Wednesday, 3 September 2025, 1:34 pm | Binoy Kampmark

The nuclear club, to admit members, requires stupendously good references (is the candidate clubbable or not?), powerful patrons and shed loads of hypocrisy. Short of that, the country must acquire nuclear weapons clandestinely, a point Israel knows ... More >>

Refugee Dunghills: Australia Makes Another Nauru Deal

Monday, 1 September 2025, 1:18 pm | Binoy Kampmark

Australia's barbaric policies towards refugees and asylum seekers arriving by sea created the Pacific Gulag - offshore refugee centres where desperate human beings were treated like hunks of undifferentiated meat to be “processed”. More >>

Refugee Dunghills: Australia Makes Another Nauru Deal

Monday, 1 September 2025, 1:17 pm | Binoy Kampmark

Let Them In: Opening Gaza To The Foreign Press Corps

Sunday, 31 August 2025, 3:49 pm | Binoy Kampmark

Only the friendliest of the friendly need apply for access to Gaza, and the call by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier in August that the military bring in more foreign journalists is heavily contingent on control. More >>

Think Tanker Demands For AUKUS: What Australia Should Do With US Submarines

Tuesday, 26 August 2025, 12:18 pm | Binoy Kampmark

In terms of examples, President Trump’s wonky Golden Dome anti-missile shield is touted as an “opportunity for Pillar II in integrated air defense.” (It would be better described as sheer science fiction, underwritten by space capitalism.) More >>

Albion Stupidities: Palestine Action And Anti-Terrorism Laws

Sunday, 24 August 2025, 3:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark

Recent enforcement of the Terrorism Act has led to over 500 arrests of peaceful protesters, including a notable incident involving a retired head teacher, raising concerns about the disproportionate application of the law and its impact on civil liberties in ... More >>

Making It Official: Famine Strikes Gaza City

Saturday, 23 August 2025, 1:46 pm | Binoy Kampmark

Be it willed ignorance or sinister motivation, Israel’s official response sidesteps the fundamental problem: the issue was always whether food would be allowed to reach a hungry Palestinian civilian population through unabridged humanitarian channels. More >>