Perhaps contemporary 'cancel culture' officially began in 1989, when Khomeini issued his fatwa against Salman Rushdie for having 'defamed' Islam in The Satanic Verses. Rushdie was ushered into hiding and the Islamist assault on... 
On Aug. 2, Iran imposed fake sanctions on a former White House Security Council member. The week before that, the Iranian navy dramatically attacked a fake U.S. aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf. In April, the leader of the... 
A wedding photographer was flying a drone in Beirut on Tuesday. As the drone maneuvered over the head of the bride and then circled next to her dress, a massive explosion kilometers away caused a burst of air that sent dust... 
Within hours of the explosion that tore apart Beirut, killing a hundred and injuring 4,000, Israel was prepared to support its victimized neighbor in its time of need. Lebanon and Israel are not just neighbors; the countries... 
The economy is in a tailspin, COVID-19 has taken away remittances the country needs, and Beirut is effectively defaulting on bonds, the study notes. 
"Ending capitalism, that is the ultimate solution," preached Rabab Abdulhadi, the radical, Israel-hating San Francisco State University associate professor of ethnic studies. Throughout the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and... 
Turkey's Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, once declared his political mission as "raising devout (Muslim) generations." Research in recent years has shown that Turkish youths have defied Erdoğan's most ambitious social... 
Hezbollah is caught between the desire to deter Israel and the urgent need to avoid war.
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