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.

“Under a Virtual Siege” – Activists Demand PayPal Offer its Services to Palestinians

“You’ve got this two-pronged effort to both isolate the Palestinians and to normalize and weave the settlers into the international communities, a community of nations. And the problem is that organizations or companies like PayPal, … unwittingly, are absolutely party to that.” — Lara Friedman

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Paypal Palestine Feature photo

In June, actor Mark Ruffalo joined the campaign calling on online payments platform PayPal to offer its services to Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. "Paypal [sic] operates in Israel's illegal settlements—but is refusing to provide service to Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank, in direct violation of UN guidelines," the

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Israeli Company and UN Human Rights Violator Energix Under Scrutiny for Environmental Violations in US

In 2020, the UN designated Israeli company Energix as a violator of human rights, today the company is rapidly expanding into the United States.

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Energix Feature photo

Israeli renewable energy firm and UN-designated human rights violator, Energix is under scrutiny from government agencies and activists alike for environmental violations stemming from its solar panel projects in Virginia. The company has been fined over $90,000 by ten counties and two state agencies for causing environmental damage and has faced

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Top Recruits Refuse to Work for Google or Amazon Over Involvement in Israeli War Crimes

While just over a year old, Google and Amazon have not addressed the Workers Against Nimbus and #NoTechForApartheid campaigns publicly, but the activist network has had success in cutting the corporations’ power —  even if only slightly.

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As Google and Amazon employees fight back against the tech giants’ Israeli military contract, college graduates have also joined the resistance. Amid Israel’s assault on Gaza and occupied East Jerusalem in May 2021, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google signed a $1.22 billion contract to provide cloud technology to Israel’s public sector and its

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Crowdfunding Colonialism: Who Is Bankrolling Israel’s Latest Excursion Into the West Bank?

Jessica Buxbaum investigates the network of government-backed organizations and political movements crowd-funding Israel’s latest land grab in Palestine.

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Israeli settlers Feature photo

OCCUPIED WEST BANK — On Wednesday, thousands of Israeli settlers from the Nachala settler group — along with Israeli lawmakers — flocked to the occupied West Bank and established seven illegal outposts in a land grab operation propelled by a massive fundraising campaign. By Thursday evening, Israeli forces evacuated the day-old outposts and

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Unilever ‘Succumbs to Bullying’ Over Ben & Jerry’s Settlement Boycott

“This isn’t about BDS, but rather Israel’s attempts to shape the public narrative into believing the settlements and Israel are indistinguishable.” – Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace

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Ben & Jerry’s Feature photo

OCCUPIED WEST BANK — Last week, U.S. ice cream manufacturer Ben & Jerry’s sued parent company Unilever to stop the sale of its product in the illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Following Israel’s assault on Gaza and occupied East Jerusalem in May of last year, Ben & Jerry’s announced last year it would stop selling

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As Anti-BDS Bills Become the Norm, ACLU Takes Free Speech Fight to the Supreme Court

If certain pro-Israel and pro-fossil fuel advocates get their way, a fundamental right to free speech and protest will be removed from Americans.

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Little Rock, Arkansas — In June, a federal appeals court upheld an Arkansas law barring state contractors from boycotting Israel, sparking concerns over First Amendment rights in the United States. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a decision made last year by a panel of three judges who found that mandating a pledge to not boycott

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How AIPAC Is Leading Efforts to Dismantle the UN Inquiry on Palestine

As a UN probe finds that the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestine is the root cause of decades-long conflict in the region, AIPAC, the Israeli lobby powerhouse, is actively attempting to extinguish it.

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Israel UN Feature photo

This month, the United Nations’ Commission of Inquiry (COI) on the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel found that the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestine is the root cause of the decades-long conflict in the region. But as the probe gets underway, the Israel lobby’s flagship organization, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee

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