https://www.jessicabuxbaum.com/portfolio daily 0.75 2023-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1609151754662-3C14BVIW88GP7X84NOU7/80506643_10220761469009278_3736444143895838720_o.jpg Portfolio - Features A collection of feature stories covering activism, social justice, technology and business in Palestine, the U.S. and the U.K. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1609153424260-DZXKJ0S3OWOY3LZ9FKAV/DSC_1600.jpg Portfolio - Dispatches My main area of reporting is dispatches from Palestine for American and British media. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1609152146887-MHSH8L1ENFFHH1SY62N3/mosque.jpg Portfolio - Investigations My investigative reporting examines leaders’ and institutions’ financial investments. https://www.jessicabuxbaum.com/about daily 1.0 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1608890955196-TXBBX0365VESXC30I99G/camera.jpg About - Jessica Buxbaum Jessica Buxbaum is a Jerusalem-based journalist and travel writer. She covers Palestine, Israel, the Syrian Golan, Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, and the wider Eastern Mediterranean. She primarily reports on Israeli state and settler violence, governmental policy, and Palestinian land rights and investigates the Israeli settler movement and its network of support. She co-founded and hosts The Control Zone podcast, an audio series exploring different military occupations around the world. She has also contributed to books on the Middle East and media discourse, including Suppressing Dissent: Shrinking Civic Space, Transnational Repression and Palestine–Israel, where she analyzed the growing influence of Kahanism in Israeli society and Lonely Planet’s Middle East and Egypt travel guides. Her work has been featured in a variety of international media outlets including Middle East Eye, New Lines Magazine, +972 Magazine, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, and Mondoweiss. She is a frequent contributor to The New Arab and Jerusalem Story. She grew up in Los Angeles but has lived in seven cities around the world including Paris, Seattle, Oakland, and Ramallah, and has traveled to more than 30 countries across four continents. She is fluent in English and conversational in Arabic and Hebrew. She earned her master’s degree in International Journalism from City St. Georges, University of London in 2019. She is available for commissions on feature, investigative, and straight news reporting in web, print, and audio mediums. For any inquiries, please contact jbuxbaum91@gmail.com. https://www.jessicabuxbaum.com/features daily 0.75 2021-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1713097107250-TI4U1GFQ7Q0XDYQK2D6Y/image-asset.jpeg Features 'Erase Gaza': How genocidal rhetoric became normalised in Israel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1713096869287-Q7KI2FHLB46CS5KV0OLK/image-asset.jpeg Features How Israeli soldiers are TikToking their war crimes in Gaza https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1713096733384-FATRO3294CVUS1JXYMK5/image-asset.jpeg Features Israel Bans Palestinian Youths Released in Israel-Hamas Swap Deal from Returning to School https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1670073256688-15VIJIXXHXTA5JUWQCDA/unsplash-image-5nYYbeWZWT0.jpg Features Making the desert bloom? How Israel is greenwashing its land theft in the Negev https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1678301014970-MX2TMOAODBMF47MUXMZ9/unsplash-image-cZtTvhpb2IU.jpg Features 'We've been locked down for 15 years': The Palestinian women fighting Israel's family reunification ban https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1609448324643-EORP9JC5HG9XIRM8NUDF/image-asset.jpeg Features Pro-Palestine students 'banned' from UK campus during Queen's visit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1609448527031-ZJ38RURD28YAQYLHTU2F/image-asset.jpeg Features Hasbara 101: How Israel forces students who want to study abroad to undergo 'propaganda' course https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1609448709311-GYEM6OWIX9CDU0PAUCMK/image-asset.jpeg Features California initiative moves away from policing mental health crises https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1609448853528-GJBXSWCBRV9PDDKGS918/image-asset.jpeg Features Should Small Businesses Shutter—or Soldier On? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1609449008231-ZFXL43LDXRYBG2I64XWL/image-asset.jpeg Features Startups Want To Make Electronic Voting Apps Mainstream. But Can We Trust Them? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1609609011867-ZLWFJRK0YI7C4XMH5ZXV/image-asset.jpeg Features Telemedicine Is on the Rise. Is That a Good Thing? https://www.jessicabuxbaum.com/dispatches daily 0.75 2021-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1759837593770-7TOTLY8Q6DQZ9GRSEETV/unsplash-image-lhEhrBdMgfg.jpg Dispatches Egypt’s Sinai Megaproject Is Erasing Bedouin Culture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/cccedfdd-df51-434f-996a-113a483b9f58/settler+grazing.jpeg Dispatches How Israel Is Funding Settler Violence To Overrun Palestinian Villages in the West Bank https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/25f7f580-f627-4ea5-a5f2-cad921745e87/DSC_5391.JPG Dispatches Under cover of war, Israel is demolishing home after home in Silwan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1701446142630-54Y7LVWZ5U08UUBOFL6R/image-asset.jpeg Dispatches Amid Gaza's devastation, Israel wages another war in the West Bank https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1701446408717-3KSMUNJOR36X07ZKTJLV/image-asset.jpeg Dispatches Elderly Palestinians Are Expelled from Old City Home after Decades of Struggle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1610029379317-K44IIIBLVSUK2L1LVIZU/Sabbagh-on-rooftop_2.jpg Dispatches Israel's demographic battle for Jerusalem leaves Palestinians struggling to survive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/db4e3a0b-d26e-45bc-ac9e-a652be0a09c2/Protest-4.jpeg Dispatches Jaffa may become the next Sheikh Jarrah as Palestinians are pushed out https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/4de3d3d6-2605-4f1b-8c69-e9c0f9609a9b/woman.jpeg Dispatches Life in Israel's Firing Zone 918: A Palestinian community under constant threat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1609176731340-4KKDTCM81A5K4F05FE3E/cave+6.jpg Dispatches Displaced Palestinians find refuge in West Bank caves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/7e648c93-0944-4813-b8a5-ade506df1865/DSC_3808.jpeg Dispatches Jerusalem’s last agricultural village fights for survival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1759838324124-3K9L28B3NGD3H218U7PU/unsplash-image-WgeVavC179o.jpg Dispatches Israel Is Orchestrating an Economic Collapse in the West Bank https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1609236887421-U4DC02069LLJABFVIEC2/image-asset.jpeg Dispatches As life under Israeli occupation gets worse, more Palestinians turn to suicide https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1609609960554-OLHU6V99HMSF2DHI5YDJ/image-asset.jpeg Dispatches Gazans recycle bomb wreckage to rebuild their lives, but the rubble is toxic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1609236527717-Y9GP5FO673ATV1V66WWP/image-asset.jpeg Dispatches Under Guise of Green Energy, Israel Entrenches Itself in Syria’s Golan Heights https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1609176411760-OJ1QTBHQX29DL8AZ4A5K/omari+with+his+dresses.jpg Dispatches To fight garbage crisis, Palestinians turn trash into fashion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1609236691403-SW3D93DNATUHBQZFEKK6/mosque.jpg Dispatches How Israel is using the nation-state law to perpetuate racial segregation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1609237927418-BIKXUS7JO692FAAMFSNL/image-asset.jpeg Dispatches The Coronavirus Outbreak is Revealing the Appalling Conditions Faced by Palestinians in Israeli Prisons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1609237271515-WZZZGABWTXC1BFV76US5/DSC_0946.jpg Dispatches Blinded Palestinian Journalist Exposes Israel’s Increasing Violence Against Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1609176140075-6HGLXX881EVZAZ15KQMG/Hadar-VaHadas_2.jpg Dispatches Jerusalem municipality sparks controversy by renaming Damascus Gate steps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1609447736608-UM29XRPZ4VYV3MQBB90F/image-asset.jpeg Dispatches For Bedouin students, the coronavirus pandemic is a stark reminder of Israel's inequality https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1670072913446-TUUP9OOHENO0ZR537W9I/unsplash-image-tGtWKDdicn4.jpg Dispatches Israeli settlers are establishing farms to push Palestinians off their land https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1670073130223-X1499LXQN10YFT8EFFGZ/unsplash-image-YGf4ol3_3BE.jpg Dispatches How Lod Became a Battleground for Jewish Extremists https://www.jessicabuxbaum.com/investigations daily 0.75 2022-12-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1610029895056-153HIBNZNA4JVW7OJ6WV/image-asset.jpeg Investigations British universities invest £450m in companies complicit in Israeli crimes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1610029969209-CJ7QP31EBDU5A36KMHUR/image-asset.jpeg Investigations Congress Members Obtain COVID-19 Loans Through Small Business Program https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1670072280025-6X7CWXI9LQ6DE2U2ZCUX/unsplash-image-zFSo6bnZJTw.jpg Investigations How an Israel Lobby Group Infiltrated US Education https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1670072430821-KEDG3LCCGB5GGWWPCSCL/unsplash-image-SLrcEdEpbSA.jpg Investigations Marvel Heads Revealed to be Closely Connected to Israeli Intelligence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1678301275573-LWLIKLY2GSKI5W9TCHZP/unsplash-image-11kQ2vLtjE8.jpg Investigations Regavim: The Israeli Faux Environmental Org Converting US Donations into Palestinian Evictions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1678301382668-33OHR8GR07GI3F97WI8N/unsplash-image-9Z-2Ktg6CIM.jpg Investigations Censoring Palestine: Swarms of Israeli Bots are Crippling Pro-Palestinian Twitter Accounts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1687789359113-2VTQ1O56VIXDIP6N7WNF/image-asset.jpg Investigations Exporting Occupation: Israeli Business is Booming in Morocco-Occupied Western Sahara https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1701445965738-0TZVTZIRSG72XVDE51GM/image-asset.jpeg Investigations These are the Western Countries Aiding Israel's Genocide in Gaza https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe5b9287da47752f794bd16/1701446269254-3HO13A8DTACN14LIGC71/image-asset.jpeg Investigations The Sub Laban family: Israel's settler expansion in Jerusalem's Old City 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