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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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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
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 >>
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 >>
Digging Deeper On Community Radio: Triple R And Indispensable Airwaves
Thursday, 21 August 2025, 1:56 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The trio of radio hosts on the program Breakfasters have already grown callouses of experience, managing multiple tasks as they go through the music listings and guests with placid ease. More >>
Cancelling The Ethnic Cleansers: Australia Revokes Simcha Rothman’s Visa
Wednesday, 20 August 2025, 7:48 am | Binoy Kampmark
Rothman is a member of Mafdal-Religious Zionism, a party led by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich that has made its position on Palestinians unmistakably clear. More >>
Warmongering Astrologers: Sky News And The War Cabinet
Tuesday, 19 August 2025, 11:50 am | Binoy Kampmark
The commentators are intended to lend an air of respectability to something that either has not happened, or something they have little idea about. More >>
Lethal Nonsense: Antisemitism, Codes Of Conduct, And The Bendigo Writers Festival
Sunday, 17 August 2025, 4:25 am | Binoy Kampmark
Free speech and academic freedoms have come to be seen increasingly dangerous, necessitating the culling and silencing of ideas. More >>
A Shield Of Lies: Netanyahu’s Battle Against The World
Thursday, 14 August 2025, 7:24 am | Binoy Kampmark
The stage for the next slaughter is set, namely, the dismantling of “the two remaining Hamas strongholds in Gaza City and the Central Camps. Contrary to false claims, this is the best way to end the war, and the best way to end it speedily.” More >>
Slaying And Censoring The Journalists: The Murder Of Anas Al-Sharif
Tuesday, 12 August 2025, 12:28 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Particularly troubling in this killing is that the IDF seemed to be laying the groundwork for justified assassination last month, when army spokesman Avichai Adraee reshared a video on social media making the accusation that al-Sharif was a member of Hamas’s ... More >>
Occupation And Slaughter: Netanyahu And Taking Over Gaza
Saturday, 9 August 2025, 1:45 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Türk's aspiration misunderstands the currency of hate and vengeance currently traded in Netanyahu’s cabinet and swathes of the Israeli populace. This is not a matter of side by side, but above and below, living in a state of permanent conflict, suppression ... More >>
When Hubris Met Nemesis: The Titan Submersible Investigation Report
Thursday, 7 August 2025, 2:24 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The 335-page report centred on the implosion of OceanGate’s Titan submersible that took place on June 18, 2023 as it descended towards the remains of the Titanic. More >>
Foiling The Anti-Protest Sceptics: The Pro-Palestinian Sydney Harbour Bridge March
Tuesday, 5 August 2025, 2:05 pm | Binoy Kampmark
In a modest way, the protest most probably encouraged Canberra’s approval of an additional A$20 million in humanitarian aid to Gaza. But the hardened sceptics suspicious of lawful assembly remain, none more so than Minns himself. More >>
Misusing The Children: The UK Online Safety Act, Privacy And Censorship
Sunday, 3 August 2025, 2:49 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Information superhighways have become potholes fought over by tribes and regulatory zealots inoculated against debate. Many members of the public seem to want censorship as a form of stand-in parenting. More >>
