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Jessica Buxbaum

Jessica Buxbaum

Jessica Buxbaum is a Jerusalem-based journalist covering Palestine and Israel. Her work has been featured in Middle East Eye, The National and Gulf News. Follow her on Twitter: @jess_buxbaum

In-depth: Decades after Kach's founding and Rabbi Meir Kahane's death, the radical Jewish supremacist movement may be even more influential today than during its inception.

07 June, 2022

In-depth: As Palestinians around the world mark 74 years since the Nakba, residents in Masafer Yatta are fighting to stop one of the largest Israeli displacements in decades.

16 May, 2022

In-depth: This Ramadan, as Palestinians gather to break their fasts and celebrate the holy month, Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate has become the centre of Israeli violence against Palestinians once again.

07 April, 2022

In-depth: In Sheikh Jarrah, where Palestinians resist forced evictions, one man is at the centre of the tensions. The New Arab takes a deeper look at Itamar Ben-Gvir, the far-right politician adding fuel to the fire.

24 February, 2022

In-depth: For decades, the Jewish National Fund has used environmental initiatives as a front to seize Palestinian land. Now, Palestinian Bedouins in the Negev are fighting back against Israel’s green colonialism.

01 February, 2022

In-depth: In the heart of Jerusalem's Old City, Armenians are preparing to celebrate Christmas. But this year, faced with a spike in attacks against the community and rising coronavirus cases, the streets of the Armenian Quarter are quiet.

17 January, 2022

In-depth: For some Palestinian students, the new semester is being spent inside a jail cell instead of in a classroom, as Israel cracks down on higher education institutions in the West Bank.

26 October, 2021

In-depth: Naftali Bennett, the man set to end Netanyahu's reign, is a religious nationalist, multi-millionaire ex-tech executive who made his name in politics by staunchly advocating Israeli settlements and the annexation of the West Bank.

09 June, 2021

In-depth: Garin Torani, a religious nationalist movement, is seeking to strengthen the Jewish presence in Israel's mixed cities, with Palestinians fearing the worst.

03 June, 2021

In-depth: As violence rocks Israel and Palestine, Muslim and Christian Palestinians stand together in solidarity.

14 May, 2021