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Alison Weir Posts

Attempting to un-censor my letter to the editor, College of Charleston’s campus newspaper, “CisternYard”

Awhile ago the pro-Israel editor of the College of Charleston’s online campus newspaper published two articles containing offensive accusations against me — one even before I spoke on campus and one afterward. The newspaper has now finally posted my response – but it isn’t listed in any of the website’s…

How Israel partisans use the press to block facts from reaching Americans

Below is my latest article on U.S. media coverage of Israel-Palestine: American media distortion on Palestine Middle East Media Monitor London, Wednesday, 01 May 2013    “exposing and overcoming pro-Israel power over information in the US about Israel-Palestine may, I believe, be the most important activity that those seeking justice…

The role of the Israel lobby in the growth of “Christian Zionism”

While some individuals, both Jewish and Christian, have talked about a Jewish “return” to Palestine throughout past centuries, today’s version of Christian Zionism was largely invented in the 19th century; adherents of political Zionism, a movement to create a Jewish state, were a major factor in how and why it…

Jack Lew: An Israeli-tilting fox to guard the Treasury hen house?

Israel partisan Jacob “Jack” Lew, Obama’s nominee for Treasury Secretary, received big bucks from banking interests in a  job arranged by former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin…  A Jan. 9th news story in Israel’s Ha’aretz newspaper, Obama to nominate Jack Lew, an Orthodox Jew, as next U.S. Treasury Secretary, reports that…

Richard Curtiss

I’ve just posted some messages on Facebook about Richard Curtiss’s recent death, and If Americans Knew sent out an announcement, but I’d like to write a little more about his importance. A former career Foreign Service Officer, Curtiss helped to found an extremely important publication, The Washington Report on Middle…

More on the Gilad Atzmon controversy – and why it matters…

I’d rather be researching and writing articles on Palestine-Israel; analyzing media coverage ; placing advertisements and billboards around the country; creating fact-sheets, cards, booklets and other materials on the topic; updating the websites (e.g. here and here and here) we’ve created to get the facts out; creating new initiatives; and…

Setting the record straight, again

Since some Israel partisans continue to disseminate falsehoods about what I’ve written – taken from claims made originally by the extremely pro-Israel advocacy organization, the Anti-Defamation (sic) League – I am reposting my response to the ADL: I’ve discovered that the Anti-Defamation League, whose devotion to Israel-right-or-wrong many people feel…

Jane Harman being considered to head CIA despite connection to Israel-AIPAC spy scandal

It’s astounding to see reports by CNN, Politico, and others that former California Democratic Congresswoman Jane Harman is being considered as a possible new head of the CIA, given the fact that she was implicated in an Israeli spy scandal in 2005. Despite apparently strong evidence against Harman, the expected…