Alison Weir

Former journalist Alison Weir is president of the Council for the National Interest and the founder and executive director of If Americans Knew, a non-profit that specializes in media

analysis as well as focuses on educating people about Palestine and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Her articles have been included in numerous anthologies, and she is a contributor to the Washington Report for Middle East Affairs, CounterPunch, The Link, and other publications, as well as a commentator on radio and television news programs.

Ms. Weir has given presentations on Capitol Hill, at the Asia Media Summit in Kuala Lumpur and Beijing; and at campuses and numerous other venues across the United States, including Harvard Law School, Yale, Stanford, Berkeley, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the Naval Postgraduate Institute, Georgetown, and MIT.

Ms. Weir has received national awards from the ADC, CAIR, and In 2004 was inducted into honorary membership of Phi Alpha Literary Society, founded in 1845 at Illinois College, the award citing her as a: “Courageous journalist-lecturer on behalf of human rights. The first woman to receive an honorary membership in Phi Alpha history.” She has traveled to Gaza and the West Bank many times, including during the height of the Al Aqsa Intifada.