Alison Weir - Apartheid We Can't Afford: Palestine, Israel and the Humanitarian Nightmare

Program at Michigan State University on October 15, 2009: "Apartheid We Can't Afford: Palestine, Israel and the Humanitarian Nightmare" Alison Weir, Executive Director, www.IfAmericansKnew.org

Alison Weir of IfAmericansKnew.org Shares Documentary Trailer

Alison Weir shared a documentary movie trailer as a preview for the organization's work-in-progress.


Alison Weir puts the Palestine occupation in context.


Alison Weir recounts what she found in the West Bank as a freelance reporter.


Alison Weir recounts what she found in Gaza as a freelance reporter


Alison Weir Reads Her Letter to America


Q&A Alison Weir responds to "defamatory" email message circulated around the campus leading up to her visit to Michigan State.


Q&A Alison Weir answers the question "What can Americans Do?"


Q&A Alison Weir answers a question about how her ethnic background affects her effectiveness with the issue.


Q&A Alison Weir talks about the children who die in the Palestine-Israel conflict.


Q&A Alison Weir talks about the media bias in news coverage about occupied Palestine.


Q&A Alison Weir talks about the rising awareness of the Palestine occupation.


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Alison Weir's Lecture at the University of Michigan (4 Parts)

Alison Weir from ifAmericansknew.org Part 1:

"Alison Weir is a journalist and founder of the Web site ifAmericansknew.org. In this lecture at the University of Michigan, Flint she gives a first hand account of life for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank under the illegal occupation of the Israeli government and explains what Americans can do to stop the genocide of a people that goes on in American's names because it is paid for with American tax dollars."

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University of Michigan, Flint Interview with Alison Weir (4 Parts)

University of Michigan, Flint Interview with Alison Weir, founder of ifAmericansknew.org PART ONE:

"Alison Weir is an independent freelance journalist and founder of ifAmericansknew.org. She has traveled to Gaza and the West Bank and has come back with first hand knowledge about the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

In this interview she discusses the power complexity of AIPAC, Zionism, the death of Palestinan and Israeli children caught in the middle of the conflict, the treatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, Israeli checkpoints, the situation in Gaza and the West Bank and what Americans need to know to stop the violence that occurs at the tune of $7 million per day of American taxpayers dollars."

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Viva Palestina Alison Weir speaks to Hesham Tillawi from Alexandria

Viva Palestina Alison Weir speaks to Hesham Tillawi from Alexandria:

"Alison Weir of www.ifamericansknew.org on her way to gaza with the Viva Palestina aid convoy to gaza spoke to Hesham Tillawi of Current Issues TV. www.currentissues.tv"



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Israel-Palestine: Beyond the Headlines

Israel-Palestine: Beyond the Headlines:

"Alison Weir, American freelance journalist and founder of If Americans Knew, will present a public lecture, 'Israel-Palestine: Beyond the Headlines,' at 4:30 pm in Schmitt Lecture Hall. A reception will follow in the Hovorka Atrium. The event is sponsored by the Hallinan Project for Peace and Social Justice."



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Off The Charts

Like most Americans, Alison Weir, the editor of a small-town newspaper in California, knew very little about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, other than what she had gleaned from the evening news or newspaper headlines. As a journalist, her attention was on issues much closer to home. Neither a muslim nor a jew, she nevertheless became more curious about the topic of the Palestinian uprising. And as she researched it, she became increasingly suspicious that the American media were not telling us the whole story. Months later, she traveled to the occupied territories as an independent journalist to find out for herself what the U.S. media seemed to be omitting. Three months after returning from Palestine, Alison Weir quit her job and founded If Americans Knew, an organization dedicated to quantifying the ways in which the American media was misinforming the public about the conflict. Ms. Weir explains her group's methodology, analyzes the data, and reports on the key findings. Producers: Paul Chek and John Odam (2006)

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