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.

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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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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Meet UEA PAC, the New Wall-Street Backed SuperPac Funding Pro-Israel Black Democrats

Presenting itself as empowering the Black community, a new political action committee (PAC) with corporate and pro-Israel ties hopes to spend millions to defeat progressives.

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ATLANTA — Presenting itself as empowering the Black community, a new political action committee (PAC) with corporate and pro-Israel ties hopes to spend millions to defeat progressives. In announcing its launch late last month, the Urban Empowerment Action (UEA) PAC endorsed five Black Democrats with Israel-lobby-friendly positions: Georgia Rep.

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A Name-Change Gets Kahane Chai Off US Terror List as US Charitable Donations Keep Flowing

The US removed Kahane Chai from its list of terrorist organizations, but as Jessica Buxbaum reveals, the Jewish terror group still receives funding from US charities

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WASHINGTON — Last month, the United States decided to remove the Israeli extremist group Kahane Chai from its list of “foreign terror organizations.” The State Department justified its decision by claiming the organization is inactive, but experts suggest the group’s ideology is resurging. Kahane Chai is an extension of the Israeli political

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As More Students, Faculty Back BDS, American Universities Maintain Apartheid Ties

Despite growing calls from student activists for their schools to support the BDS movement, American universities continue to collaborate with Israel.

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TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — This month, City University of New York’s (CUNY) law school faculty unanimously passed a resolution endorsing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement, joining a chorus of American universities advocating for Palestinian rights. Harvard University’s Crimson newspaper endorsed the movement earlier this year, with 50 of

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Censoring Palestine: Swarms of Israeli Bots Are Crippling Pro-Palestinian Twitter Accounts

Digital-rights experts say acquiring huge amounts of fake followers trigger Twitter’s algorithm and can lead to the tech giant suspending your account, effectively censoring users by forcing them to make their accounts private. 

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OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM — On April 29, Inès Abdel Razek woke up to 80 new Twitter followers. “These accounts were following the exact same people that were tweeting about Palestine, but from France or Francophone accounts that work on Palestine,” Razek said of her new followers. The advocacy director of Rābet, the Palestine Institute for

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Eyeing Midterms, AIPAC Throws Its Weight – and Money – Around Washington

Flush with cash, AIPAC appears to be a heavyweight in this year’s midterm elections as it goes after progressives and floods its preferred candidates with millions. 

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WASHINGTON — Last week, Rep. Shontel Brown defeated Nina Turner in an Ohio Democratic primary race for the second time in nine months. Turner had been endorsed by progressive Squad member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and is a vocal critic of Israel. Her loss is largely seen as a win for the Israel lobby and specifically the American Israel Public

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