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.

Legalized Apartheid: The Israeli Supreme Court Just Cemented Jewish Supremacy into Law

Only a few years old, the nation-state law has already proven it can serve as a legal tool for discrimination, racial segregation, and outright apartheid.

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Israeli aparthied Feature photo

JERUSALEM — In November of last year, an Israeli judge invoked the controversial Jewish Nation-State Basic Law when striking down a lawsuit against the city of Karmiel over funding transportation for two Palestinian students. In his ruling, the chief registrar of the Krayot Magistrate's Court, Yaniv Luzon, said that establishing an

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American Tax Dollars Financing Israeli Tourist Park Atop Historic Palestanin Neighborhood

At least 1,500 Palestinian residents in Silwan, Jerusalem are at risk of ethnic cleansing in favor of a Jewish tourist park to be established on the site of their historic neighborhood.

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Silwan, East Jerusalem Feature photo

OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM — Roughly 2.5 miles from Sheikh Jarrah -- the Palestinian neighborhood that grabbed the world’s attention in May -- lies Silwan. This neighborhood in Occupied East Jerusalem is perched atop the steep slopes just outside the Old City. Houses are tightly compacted and stacked on top of each other as they dip into the valley

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الكفاح لإنقاذ لفتا ، آخر قرية فلسطينية متبقية

لفتا ، المدينة الوحيدة التي لم تهدمها إسرائيل بعد النكبة ، تقف كرمز لحق الفلسطينيين في العودة ، لكن خطة "التنمية" للحكومة الإسرائيلية قد تغير ذلك قريبًا.

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LIfta Feature photo

LIFTA, JERUSALEM — Yacoub Odeh is 81 years old but he can still remember his childhood in the Palestinian village of Lifta as if it were yesterday. Children playing together in the gardens, swimming in the pools and laying in the grass. Today, Lifta remains as a frozen time capsule. While the residents were expelled during Israel’s 1948 ethnic

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متظاهرون فلسطينيون يروون تفاصيل مروعة عن التعذيب على أيدي الشرطة الإسرائيلية

قام الضباط بجرح المعتقلين وإرهابهم ، ومن تجرأ على رفع رأسه يتعرض لمزيد من الضرب على أيدي الضباط. وبحسب الإفادة الخطية ، كانت أرضية الغرفة مغطاة بالدماء جراء الضرب.

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Israeli police torture Feature photo

NAZARETH, ISRAEL — In May, the world watched Israel’s brutal occupation on full display: The forcible displacement of Sheikh Jarrah residents was underway; Israeli security forces attacked Muslim worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan; Israeli rocket fire rained down on Gaza; and Jewish extremists chanted “Death to Arabs!” in the

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If Bibi Was the Frying Pan, Is Bennett the Fire? What To Expect from Israel’s New PM

“It’s not like [Israel is] replacing Netanyahu with a person who believes in equality for all, who believes in freedom for all, who believes in human rights for all. They’re replacing Netanyahu with an ultra-nationalist who is going to put forward his ultra-nationalist agenda.” – Diana Buttu, former PLO spokesperson

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Naftali Bennett Feature photo

JERUSALEM -- After more than a decade, four elections, three corruption charges, and a tumultuous parliamentary vote, someone other than Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in as Israel’s prime minister this week. Naftali Bennett, the far-right nationalist who has replaced Netanyahu, heads the most politically diverse coalition in the nation’s history,

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Press Violations Explode to 180 in May Alone as Israel Cracks Down to Buff Its Image

“The more that Israel is exposed internationally for its human rights violations in Palestine, the more it becomes desperate in its attempt to crack down on journalists and the media in general.” — Dr. Ramzy Baroud

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Israel Press Freedom Feature photo

OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM — Despite wearing a press vest and holding a government press card, Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Givara Budeiri was violently assaulted and arrested by Israeli police on June 5. Budeiri was covering a demonstration in the Occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah when Israeli forces attacked and then

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Revealed: The American Money Entwined with Israel’s Jewish Terrorist Groups

The IRS states that terrorist activities are considered substantial means for disqualifying an organization’s tax-exempt status, yet money is still finding its way through a number of high-profile tax-exempt American charities to known terrorist groups inside Israel.

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Jewish terrorism Feature photo

JERUSALEM — As Israel rained rockets down on Gaza in mid-May, inside 1948-occupied Palestine (Historic Palestine and modern-day Israel), another kind of Israeli terror emerged. Jewish supremacists stormed cities with high Palestinian populations chanting “Death to Arabs!,” attacking scores of Palestinians and vandalizing their properties. The

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