Jessica Buxbaum
Jessica Buxbaum is a Jerusalem-based journalist and travel writer. She covers Palestine, Israel, the Syrian Golan, Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, and the wider Eastern Mediterranean. She primarily reports on Israeli state and settler violence, governmental policy, and Palestinian land rights and investigates the Israeli settler movement and its network of support. She has contributed to books on the Middle East and media discourse, including Suppressing Dissent: Shrinking Civic Space, Transnational Repression and Palestine–Israel, where she analyzed the growing influence of Kahanism in Israeli society and Lonely Planet’s Middle East and Egypt travel guides.
Her work has been featured in a variety of international media outlets including Middle East Eye, New Lines Magazine, +972 Magazine, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, and Mondoweiss. She is a frequent contributor to The New Arab and Jerusalem Story. She grew up in Los Angeles but has lived in seven cities around the world including Paris, Seattle, Oakland, and Ramallah, and has traveled to more than 30 countries across four continents. She is fluent in English and conversational in Arabic and Hebrew. She earned her master’s degree in International Journalism from City St. Georges, University of London in 2019.
She is available for commissions on feature, investigative, and straight news reporting in web, print, and audio mediums. For any inquiries, please contact jbuxbaum91@gmail.com.