Jessica Buxbaum

Journalist

Jessica Buxbaum is a Jerusalem-based journalist covering Palestine and the Israeli occupation.

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Feature Story In Push from Settlers, Israel Begins Renovating Courtyard Next to al-Aqsa

Israel wants to transform a historic Muslim site into a Jewish space.

Blog Post East Jerusalem Left Unprotected amid War

The recent war with Iran exposed the city’s disregard for Palestinian residents’ lives in yet another way.

Feature Story Israel Spends Millions to Guard Settlers in East Jerusalem

How privatizing “security” ensures that only one population is secured

Feature Story Israel Plans New 30-Acre Settlement to Grab the Northern Edge of Sheikh Jarrah, Completing Its Encirclement

Sheikh Jarrah is being besieged.

Feature Story Israel Aiming to Supplant Umm Haroun Area of Sheikh Jarrah with Settler Skyscrapers

The Umm Haroun neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah is threatened.

Feature Story Israel Moves al-Walaja Checkpoint, Severing Villagers from Their Lands and Historic Spring

A pristine Palestinian agricultural village is being asphyxiated by Israel.

Interview Israel Relaunches Land Registration in West Bank to Strip Palestinians of Property

A bureaucracy designed to serve as a grand land theft

Interview Jerusalem Expert Explains Israel’s Apartheid Road Expansion

A new segregated highway will annex part of the occupied West Bank and sever Palestinian access to this area.

Blog Post Israel Increasing Efforts to Expel Jerusalem’s Palestinian Villages

Small peripheral villages, left in limbo for decades, now face all-out expulsion.