Alison Weir

Only the News That Fits: Truthout Censors Story Critical of Israel

An 18-month-old died in Palestine Friday. The cause of death was teargas inhalation from an Israeli invasion of his village two months ago.
It wasn’t a major invasion; just another of the routine ones that happen almost every day in the West Bank. U.S. media call these “incursions,” when they bother to mention them. Which is rarely.
The toddler’s name was Abdul-Rahman Mahmoud Barghouthi, a name that feels incongruously long for his short life.

The Forward Publishes Antisemitism Accusations Against Prominent Activist

Activist and writer, and founder of If Americans Knew, as well as President of the Council for the National Interest, Alison Weir. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
The website of the Forward newspaper recently published an opinion piece by political hitman Spencer Sunshine, in which he slammed the American Left and specific individuals for alleged antisemitism, including Alison Weir.

MSNBC, Martin Fletcher Disavow Image of Palestine Being Wiped Off the Map

The Israel lobby may pervade U.S. news media and dominate what it may say, but the real facts about Palestine are increasingly leaking out to Americans. And that is what most scares those who wish Israeli power over Palestinians, which is only possible through U.S. support, to continue.

 

Interview with the US Campaign to End Anti-Semitism

As many of you already know, Alison Weir (no relation, and she pronounces her name WEER while mine is pronounced WAH-YER) and her organization, If Americans Knew (IAK), have been expelled from the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (USCEIO). I decided to get to the bottom of this important development, so I got in touch with Rube Joshner at the USCEIO, who agreed to be interviewed on condition of anonymity.
Barb Weir: For our readers who may not know, could you please explain why the USCEIO expelled IAK and Alison Weir from your organization?

“The cause of Palestinian suffering and ethnic cleansing is not anti-Semitism, but rather Zionism”

Please be advised that the Free Palestine Movement resigns from the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, effective immediately.
We resign because of the disgraceful, disrespectful and unjust treatment of Alison Weir and her organization, If Americans Knew, in the procedures to expel her from the Campaign on the spurious grounds of insufficient avoidance of anti-Semitic persons and institutions.
We resign because it is clear that the decision had been made to expel IAK before the proceedings to do so had ever begun.

Dear “Jewish Voice for Peace”

Dear “Jewish Voice for Peace”I have decided not to work with you because my central tenet is that Talmudism is the root of racism and you have chosen to repeatedly associate yourself with people who advocate for the Talmud Bavli, Mishneh Torah, Shulchan Aruch and similar genocidal, anti-gentile rabbinic ideology.I am particularly sensitive to the long history of anti-goyim oppression which is at the root of the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. I must hold the line against the false assumption that Talmudism is not racism.— Michael Hoffman