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Binoy Kampmark

Binoy Kampmark currently lectures at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge.

Israel/ Palestine
A Cruel Truce:  Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

A Cruel Truce: Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

Binoy Kampmark

Israel razed over 2,500 buildings in the Strip since the ceasefire with Hamas commenced on 10 October, 2025.

Israel Lobby
Confirmed: Epstein-Dershowitz Campaign against Mearsheimer-Walt’s ‘The Israel Lobby’

Confirmed: Epstein-Dershowitz Campaign against Mearsheimer-Walt’s ‘The Israel Lobby’

Binoy Kampmark

Epstein proceeded to play a role in the campaign against Walt and Mearsheimer. His pro-Israel credentials were impeccable

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian Subordination: Donald Trump’s Gaza “Peace” Plan

Palestinian Subordination: Donald Trump’s Gaza “Peace” Plan

Binoy Kampmark

  by Dr Binoy Kampmark ( Middle East Monitor ) – He had moments of discomfort and embarrassment – pressed into calling the Qatari prime minister by his host to apologise for striking Doha and made to pay lip service to the prospect of a Palestinian state – but Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu had many reasons […]

Israel/ Palestine
Microsoft cuts Israeli Military off from its Azure Cloud over Mass Surveillance of Civilians

Microsoft cuts Israeli Military off from its Azure Cloud over Mass Surveillance of Civilians

Binoy Kampmark

By Binoy Kampmark ( Middle East Monitor) – On 6 August, The Guardian reported that “multiple individuals have asserted that the IDF [Israeli Defence Forces] is using Azure for the storage of files of phone calls obtained through broad or mass surveillance of civilians in Gaza and the West Bank.”  The tale began in 2021, when […]

Israel/ Palestine
Clear Conclusions: A UN Commission finds Israel Responsible for Genocide in Gaza

Clear Conclusions: A UN Commission finds Israel Responsible for Genocide in Gaza

Binoy Kampmark

( Middle East Monitor ) – Yet another blistering addition to the ghoulish accounts of cruelty regarding the ongoing actions of Israel in Gaza made its appearance on September 16.  It came in the form of a report by the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, a lashing publication […]

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