Binoy Kampmark

Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne. Email: bkampmark@gmail.com

Rogue States and Thought Crimes: Israel Strikes Iran

The Morality of Small Means: Sanctioning Israel’s Ministers

Catching Israel Out: Gaza and the Madleen “Selfie” Protest

Bad Old Habits: Israel Backs Palestinian Militias in Gaza

Off to War We Go: Starmer’s Strategic Defence Review

Thieves in the Kitchen: The Stealing of Recipes

Roads to War: The EU’s Security Action for Europe Fund

Squabbling Siblings: India, Pakistan and Operation Sindoor

Celluloid Exploitation: Immigrants and Reality Television

Al-Sharaa, Trump and Sanctions

Trump, Planes and the Arabian Gulf Tour

Fantasy and Exploitation: The US-Ukraine Minerals Deal

White Smoke and Speculation: The Election of Pope Leo XIV

Expulsion and Occupation: Israel’s Proposed Gaza Plan

Refashioned History: Liberal Catastrophes and Labor Triumphs

The ICJ, Israel and the Gaza Blockade

Yale, Ben-Gvir and Banning Palestinian Groups

Euphemistic Practices:  The IDF, Killing Aid Workers and Self-Investigation

Dotty and Cretinous: Reviewing AUKUS

De Facto Occupation: Israel’s Security Zone Strategy

Flexible and Sly: Indonesian Defense Policy, Russia and Australian Anxiety

Perfume, Power and Emmanuel Macron

Junk Science and Bad Policing: The Homicide Prediction Project

Killing Paramedics: Israel’s War on Palestinian Health

Holding Meta Accountable in Africa

For the Love of Landmines: European States Exit the Ottawa Convention

Secrecy and Virtue Signalling: Another View of Signalgate

Netanyahu’s War on Israeli Institutions

Kirsty Coventry, Rebranding and the IOC

The Trauma Will Be Instagrammed: Wombat Handlings Down Under

The Script of Anxiety: Poland’s Nuclear Weapons Fascination

Militarising Europe: The EU Defence Spending Bug

Sporting Contradictions: Athletes, the Olympics and Climate Change

Aggrieved Speculation: The Trump Illness Hypothesis

More Guns, Less Butter: Starmer’s Defence Spending Splash

Europe’s Ukrainian Predicament

Zelensky: Victim of Colosseum Politics

Ho Hum at Sea: Anti-China Hysteria Down Under

Israel’s Annexation Drive: The West Bank and Expelling Palestinian Refugees

The Comical, Frightening Aussie Spy Chief, Mike Burgess

Cowardice and Cancellation: Creative Australia and the Venice Biennale

Second Endings: Terminating Neighbors (Again)

Feeling Very Fine: Picasso the Printmaker at the British Museum

Far From Benign: The US Aid Industrial Complex

Cutting the Ghost Budget: Elon Musk Versus the Pentagon

A Thief’s Mentality: Trump, Real Estate and Dreams of Ethnic Cleansing

Why Fly in Europe?  The Dark Triumph of the Ryanair Effect

Trump, Tariffs and Russia: A Very Muddled Policy

Funeral Atmospherics at the British Library

Frankfurt Airport: A Special Kind of Loathing