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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.

Israel Experiments on Palestinians With Ai-Powered Gun at Checkpoints

Israel’s technological advancements have digitized its occupation of Palestine and turned the occupied territories into a testing ground for surveillance, spyware, and arms technologies.

October 5th, 2022
Jessica Buxbaum
October 5th, 2022
By Jessica Buxbaum
Smart Shooter Feature image

The Israeli military installed an automatic weapon at a heavily-trafficked checkpoint in the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil in September. While it was initially reported that the weapon will fire a wide range of projectiles, the army now states the device is only capable of firing sponge-tipped bullets. Reiterating the remote-controlled gun

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Marvel Heads Revealed to be Closely Connected to Israeli Intelligence

With Marvel’s U.S. military propaganda in full swing, it seems the studio is now turning its focus to Israeli nationalism.

September 23rd, 2022
Jessica Buxbaum
September 23rd, 2022
By Jessica Buxbaum
Cheering on Apartheid: How Marvel Works to Whitewash Israel's Image

Earlier this month, activists and comic book fans alike were in uproar over Marvel Studios’ announcement that Israeli actress Shira Haas will play Zionist superhero Sabra in the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Captain America: New World Order. Many Palestine advocates accused Marvel’s decision to add Sabra to the MCU as exalting

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“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

August 10th, 2022
Jessica Buxbaum
August 10th, 2022
By Jessica Buxbaum
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.

August 4th, 2022
Jessica Buxbaum
August 4th, 2022
By Jessica Buxbaum
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.

August 2nd, 2022
Jessica Buxbaum
August 2nd, 2022
By Jessica Buxbaum

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.

July 22nd, 2022
Jessica Buxbaum
July 22nd, 2022
By Jessica Buxbaum
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

July 14th, 2022
Jessica Buxbaum
July 14th, 2022
By Jessica Buxbaum
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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