Wed 30-April-2025

Dr Binoy Kampmark

Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He currently lectures at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University.

Finding the unmentionable: Amnesty International, Israel and Genocide

It was bound to happen. With continuing operations in Gaza and increasingly violent acts against Palestinians in the occupied territories, human rights organizations are making progressively severe assessments of Israel’s warring cause.

Crippling UNRWA: The Knesset’s Collective Punishment of Palestinians

The man has a cheek. Having lectured Iranians and Lebanese about what (and who) is good for them in terms of rulers and rule (we already know what he thinks of the Palestinians), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been keeping busy on further depriving access and assistance to those in Gaza and the West Bank.

Apologists for rape: The Sde Teiman protests

In 2007, writer Tal Nitsan isolated instances where Israeli male combatants systematically used sexual violence against Palestinian women in the war of 1948.

Palestine’s case for full UN membership

“I find it rather difficult to make it clear to my children why we are not eligible, for from one point of view it isn’t quite clear to me,” wrote an anonymous individual in “The Jew and the Club” published in The Atlantic, October 1924.

Israel has attacked free speech by closing Al Jazeera’s Jerusalem bureau

“Politics,” claimed the harsh, albeit successful, 19th century German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, “is the art of the possible, the attainable – the art of the next best.”

Death by Algorithm: Israel’s AI War in Gaza

Remorseless killing at the initiation of artificial intelligence has been the subject of nail-biting concern for various members of the computer-digital cosmos.

It’s all about me: Netanyahu rejects Palestinian statehood

Israel has been given enormous license to control the security narrative in the Middle East for decades.