Because Saudi Arabia got caught lying about the brutal murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi last year, defense attorneys say a Virginia man convicted in 2005 of supporting al-Qaida terrorism should go free.

Ahmed Abu Ali's 2005 conviction on nine terrorism-related charges – including a plot to assassinate then-President George W. Bush – hinged on confessions he gave to Saudi interrogators who arrested him while he was attending a Saudi university. Saudi Arabia's secret police, the Mabahith, questioned him. That is the same agency responsible for killing and dismembering Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Turkey a year ago.

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This article originally was published Oct. 1 by the Daily Wire.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used his United Nations General Assembly speech last week to blast Israel as the cause of "injustice" in the Middle East and vow that his country "will continue to stand by the oppressed people of Palestine as she has always done." But a new report by Israel's Meir Amit Intelligence and Information Center, as well as new sanctions announced by the U.S. Treasury Department, make it clear that Erdogan is in no position to cast aspersions.

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This article also was published Sept. 19 by the American Thinker.

A wide-ranging set of comments by Linda Sarsour – the newly designated official surrogate for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders – reveals the full extent of the Orwellian world in which she lives. Her views are even more shocking than what we already know about her pathological fabrication of history, her abject anti-Semitism, her fanatical hatred of the Jewish state, and her growing leadership role in the Democratic Party.

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Note: This article has been updated to include the Women's March's statement.

Zahra Billoo's tenure as a board member for the national Women's March lasted three days.

The board voted her off Wednesday night, she wrote. The Women's March issued a statement Thursday saying it "found some of her public statements incompatible with the values and mission of the organization."

Billoo disagreed, describing herself as the victim of "an Islamophobic smear campaign," she wrote, "led by the usual antagonists, who have long targeted me, my colleagues, and anyone else who dares speak out in support of Palestinian human rights and the right to self-determination."

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Bernie Sanders has made an odd calculation in his quest for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. He all-but-ceded support from Jewish Democrats during the weekend by announcing anti-Semitic activist Linda Sarsour again will serve as a campaign surrogate.

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