Alison Weir is an American writer-speaker-analyst on Israel-Palestine. She is executive director of If Americans Knew who speaks and writes about Israel-Palestine, with particular focus on US media coverage of this issue. [citation needed] In February 2001 Weir resigned her position as editor of the Sausalito, California community newspaper, and traveled to the West Bank and Gaza as a freelance reporter. She found a situation largely the reverse of what was being reported by the American media. [citation needed]