There’s another propaganda piece out to add to the list of dubious documentaries: US vs. Al-Arian. It tells the story of Sami Al-Arian, former University of South Florida professor and fundraiser for Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and it unapologetically tells the story from the Al-Arian family’s point of view. The case has a number of twists and turns, which can be read about here . Basically, most charitable version of events is that Al-Arian helped what was clearly a terrorist organization but did not himself plan or have knowledge of terrorist attacks. As The Washington Times observed after Al-Arian’s guilty plea last year:

Sami al-Arian used his perch in academia to help a brutal terrorist organization that is responsible for the murder of innocents, including U.S. citizens and is bent on the destruction of a U.S. ally. al-Arian was then brazen enough to lie about it and prey upon sympathizers. In our open society, where people are presumed innocent until proven guilty, he almost got away with it. We can at least be thankful that an ugly chapter in this terrorism case is now closed.

But according to US vs. Al-Arian, he’s a victim of the corrupt American justice system and the international Zionist conspiracy which — well, you know the rest.