Jessica Buxbaum
Jessica Buxbaum is a Jerusalem-based journalist covering Israel’s occupation of Palestine and the Syrian Golan Heights, and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Her work has been featured in Al Jazeera English and +972 Magazine and she is a frequent contributor to The New Arab and Jerusalem Story.
Latest from Jessica Buxbaum
How Israel Is Funding Settler Violence To Overrun Palestinian Villages in the West Bank
For decades, West Bank Palestinians have remained determined to stay on their land, even as Israel made the region nearly uninhabitable with movement restrictions, depletion of resources, home demolitions, land seizures and army raids. Now, waves of violent attacks perpetrated by settler militias are forcibly displacing entire Palestinian communities.
Egypt’s Sinai Megaproject Is Erasing Bedouin Culture
Egypt’s government is pushing ahead with a massive tourism project in the Sinai Peninsula’s St. Catherine region — a sacred, UNESCO-protected site. Local Bedouin communities and experts warn that the development is destroying heritage, muzzling dissent and displacing the Jebeleya tribe.