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Is U.S. News Media Covering Up Casualties Inflicted by Israel?
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June 19, 2019

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Author Alison Weir remembers supporting Israel as a young person growing up in a military family.
“I was sympathetic to Israel,” she said. “I had seen (the movie) ‘Exodus’ with Paul Newman and was aware of the Nazi atrocities.”

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Alison Weir
At the time, Weir paid little attention to the country’s spiraling conflict with Palestinians. It’s a conflict that grew out of Israel’s founding as a nation and continues to this day. But she soon began to notice the coverage of the conflict by American media “was very one-sided.”

Founded Research Institute

It was a realization that would motivate her work as a researcher and writer. In 2001, she traveled to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where she said she found conditions that differed from what was being reported by U.S. media. The trip led to her founding a non-profit research institute focused on the Middle East conflict.
Her organization — If Americans Knew — was created “to provide information that is to a large degree missing from American press coverage of this critical region,” according to the institute’s website.
Weir recently delivered a keynote presentation to members and guests of the Fresno Center for Nonviolence. She described significant under-reporting by U.S. media outlets of Palestinian casualties at the hands of Israeli forces.

“After a while, I came to realize that this was the biggest cover-up I had ever seen.” – Alison Weir
Watch the video for insights on Weir’s findings. Further installments about Weir’s research will be published by GV Wire in the weeks ahead.
“Children were being shot, in many cases,” Weir told the group. “And yet, the news media — NPR, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle — was sort of obscuring that fact.”
“After a while, I came to realize that this was the biggest cover-up I had ever seen,” she said.
Weir is the author of “Against Our Better Judgement: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel.” The book was published in 2014.

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