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COLUMNIST: BINOY KAMPMARK

Denial as a Way of Life: Netanyahu on Egyptian Warnings about October 7

Denial as a Way of Life: Netanyahu on Egyptian Warnings about October 7

6 hours ago | Feature Article

Things are looking bleaker by the day for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, most notably for his standing as a ...

Sep 29, 2026 | Feature Article

Five men, initially detained on suspicion of committing offences under the Explosives Act, then arrested on suspicion of ...

Sep 25, 2026 | Feature Article

This month has seen the United Nations issue two reports alleging the commission of war crimes and crimes against humani ...

Sep 24, 2026 | Feature Article

It rsquo;s become the disease of affluence: How do wealthy countries limit, restrict or totally bar migrants (whether th ...

Sep 22, 2026 | Feature Article

Australia rsquo;s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has made digital safety, especially regarding children, a mooring of h ...

Sep 20, 2026 | Feature Article

Ale house readings, spiritual zest, and the inevitable crapulous effect: a pub, the public house, the inn, the tavern, t ...

Sep 17, 2026 | Feature Article

It rsquo;s bleak. ldquo;They are racing straight toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. r ...

Sep 15, 2026 | Feature Article

It has been a source of wonder how celebrity paedophile, flesh presser, sex trafficker and financier Jeffrey Epstein man ...

Sep 14, 2026 | Feature Article

Whatever awaits him this coming November, few politicians could claim to have the endurance, bloody mindedness and sense ...

Sep 10, 2026 | Feature Article

International responses to Israel rsquo;s policies in the occupied West Bank, notably regarding redrawing the ethnic com ...

Sep 9, 2026 | Feature Article

In the unpardonable ecosystem of graft, favours and corruption that is defence contracting, defence conferencing and all ...

Sep 8, 2026 | Feature Article

There is much in the nature of a map. The very drawing of a line signifies an assertion, an acceptance, or even a repudi ...

Sep 5, 2026 | Feature Article

Let rsquo;s be done with the pretence of decency and soggy references to just resolution in the face of extreme circumst ...

Sep 3, 2026 | Feature Article

In September 2025, nine countries launched the

Sep 1, 2026 | Feature Article

When the Trump administration abducted the Venezuelan President Nicol aacute;s Maduro and his wife on January 3, an open ...

Aug 31, 2026 | Feature Article

Another bleak warning, another round of Cassandra calls about humanity rsquo;s immaculate sense of destructive self. Thi ...

Aug 30, 2026 | Feature Article

Restricting access to social media platforms to children of a certain age has become something of a spreading mania. Thi ...

Binoy Kampmark
Binoy Kampmark

Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He currently lectures at RMIT University. Email: [email protected]. More He is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, teaching within the Bachelor of Social Science (Legal and Dispute Studies) program.

Binoy’s research and teaching interests lie in the intersections of law, international relations and history. Much of his research and teaching involves the examination of conflict, diplomacy, and the various crises confronting international society including refugees, terrorism, ‘rogue’ states and undocumented citizens.

Binoy has written extensively in both refereed journals and more popular media on his research interest topics of the institution of war, diplomacy, international relations, 20th century history and law.

The quality of his research has been acknowledged in awards made by the US-based International Association for the Study of Forced Migration and Limina, journal of the History Department of the University of Western Australia.

Media expertise
Binoy is available for media interviews and comments as an expert on international and national security, terrorism, the war on terror and politics.

He has been interviewed for National Public Radio in the United States, Radio National in Australia, and radio stations in South Africa. He is also a regular contributor to online publications including The Conversation, Eureka Street, CounterPunch (US) and Scoop (NZ).

Binoy was also commissioned by the UK History Channel in December 2007 to January 2008 to write package descriptions for the American Civil War, and in March 2006 to write a package on World War II: The War in the West, 1943-1945.