Jessica Buxbaum

Jessica Buxbaum is a Jerusalem-based journalist for MintPress News covering Palestine, Israel, and Syria. Her work has been featured in Middle East Eye, The New Arab and Gulf News.

Sierra Club Workers Challenge Leadership’s Greenwashing ‘Apartheid Tours’

Sierra Club workers are taking a stand for environmental justice and solidarity with Palestinians in the face of the Sierra Club’s controversial apartheid tours to Israel.

Jessica Buxbaum
By Jessica Buxbaum
Israel Sierra Club Feature photo

In June, members of the Sierra Club unit of the Progressive Workers Union (PWU) passed a resolution pledging solidarity with the Palestinian people as the environmental organization pushes forward with its planned trips to Israel. The workers’ resolution puts its words into action by ensuring union funds aren’t investing in Israel’s settler

Read Full Article

With Drone Strike, the Occupied West Bank Could Turn Into War-Ravaged Gaza

The Israeli military recently conducted its first aerial drone strike in nearly 20 years, marking an alarming shift in state violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Jessica Buxbaum
By Jessica Buxbaum
With Drone Strike, the Occupied West Bank Could Turn Into War-Ravaged Gaza Feature photo

Last week, the Israeli military killed three Palestinians in its first aerial drone strike in the occupied West Bank in nearly 20 years — marking a grave escalation in state violence against the territory. Using an Elbit Systems Hermes 450 drone, the military struck a vehicle in Jenin carrying Palestinians suspected of fatally shooting four

Read Full Article

Israeli Occupation: How Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and Dell Enable Surveillance and Control in Palestine

Multinational tech giants Microsoft, IBM, Cisco Systems, and Dell Technologies are complicit in Israel’s human rights violations, enabling surveillance, data collection, and control over Palestinians in the occupied territories.

Jessica Buxbaum
By Jessica Buxbaum
Big Tech Israel Feature photo

In September, Israel installed an AI-powered gun at a military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. Now, that same technology has been deployed at the entrance of the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem. Across occupied East Jerusalem, you can find surveillance cameras strategically placed on street corners. And throughout the West Bank,

Read Full Article

Exporting Occupation: Israeli Business is Booming in Morocco-Occupied Western Sahara

“Before the normalization happened, the Israelis would collaborate with the Moroccans, but also wouldn’t feel comfortable going beyond this covert intelligence or military or ad hoc cooperation, but with normalization, this has now reached a whole new level that is unprecedented.” — Riccardo Fabiani, International Crisis Group

Jessica Buxbaum
By Jessica Buxbaum

On December 22, 2020, Israel and Morocco officially normalized relations after former President Donald Trump’s administration declared occupied Western Sahara as Moroccan. In the years following, Israeli companies have boosted their business involvement in Western Sahara, suggesting the pair’s cooperation is fueling each other’s land theft. In

Read Full Article

Israel’s Latest Hasbara Scheme Enlists High School Students as Trolls Against Palestine

The Israeli government is training high school students as part of its propaganda efforts to combat criticism of its policies and delegitimize the BDS movement.

Jessica Buxbaum
By Jessica Buxbaum
Israel Trolls Against Palestine Feature photo

In April, Israel's Foreign Affairs Ministry launched a program training high school students to boost the country's image online. However, as global awareness grows of Israel's human rights violations, the government is turning teenagers into its own personal troll army to combat the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)

Read Full Article

As UK Inks Trade Deal with Israel, Rishi Sunak’s Connections to Apartheid State Come Under Scrutiny

As Israel is slammed over human rights abuses, some are decrying the UK’s Rishi Sunak for deepening military ties with the apartheid state. Jessica Buxbaum reveals just how deep those ties go.

Jessica Buxbaum
By Jessica Buxbaum

In March, the United Kingdom and Israel signed an agreement strengthening ties in trade, technology, and the military. Known as the 2030 Roadmap for UK-Israeli Bilateral Relations, the British government lauded the deal as boosting the economy, but activists say it makes the U.K. complicit in apartheid while ignoring the realities on the

Read Full Article

Roger Waters V. the Machine: Inside the Pink Floyd Frontman’s Battle For Free Speech in Germany

After being blacklisted as “anti-Semitic,” Roger Waters has embarked upon a legal battle against German authorities over his support for BDS, criticism of the Israeli government and support for the Palestinian people.

Jessica Buxbaum
By Jessica Buxbaum
Roger Waters Germany Feature photo

Roger Waters is facing pushback from Germany. City authorities have canceled his upcoming concert over claims the Pink Floyd frontman is anti-Semitic. Yet activists say his experience is not an isolated incident when it comes to support for Palestine. In February, Frankfurt’s City Council canceled Waters’s concert scheduled for May 28, stating

Read Full Article