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Ruthie Blum

Ruthie Blum, a former adviser at the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is an award-winning columnist and a senior contributing editor at JNS. Co-host with Ambassador Mark Regev of the JNS-TV podcast “Israel Undiplomatic,” she writes on Israeli politics and U.S.-Israel relations. Originally from New York City, she moved to Israel in 1977. She is a regular guest on national and international media outlets, including Fox, Sky News, i24News, Scripps, ILTV, WION and Newsmax.

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech regarding the coronavirus outbreak, at the P.A. headquarters in Ramallah, May 5, 2020. Photo by Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Penalizing Palestinian lawfare
In response to the P.A.-spurred UNGA resolution calling on the International Court of Justice to render an opinion on Israeli “occupation, settlement and annexation,” the new administration in Jerusalem is launching a counter-offensive.
Jan. 8, 2023
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Now-former Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman and then-Foreign Minister Yair Lapid greet at a conference at the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, May 29, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
The false prophets of an impending Israeli apocalypse
Given their pernicious predictions about the end of democracy, Zionism and Judaism, the sore losers to Netanyahu’s new government will do even worse in the next election.
Jan. 3, 2023
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Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Likud MK Amichai Chikli at the Knesset in Jerusalem, Dec. 28, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Israel’s new diaspora minister hits the ground running
Amichai Chikli ordered an immediate halt to his predecessor’s multi-million-shekel contribution to a leftist NGO promoting a progressive agenda.
Jan. 1, 2023
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MK Yorai Lahav-Hertzanu at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 14, 2019. Hadas Parush/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Israeli ‘liberals’ aren’t doing the LGBTQ flag—or democracy—proud
The outrage over a proposed Religious Zionist Party amendment wasn’t spontaneous. It’s been cultivated over time to combust on command.
Dec. 27, 2022
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The New York Times building in New York City. Credit: Serge Attal/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
No, Gray Lady, the ‘bedrock’ of US-Israel relations isn’t a two-state solution
The predictable New York Times attack on the incoming Netanyahu government was an exercise in “legitimate” delegitimization.
Dec. 20, 2022
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Orthodox women on a tour of Moshav Dalton, near the northern Israeli city of Safed, July12, 2013. Photo by Yaakov Naumi/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
The Orthodox parties’ reasonable demand for religious freedom
Contrary to the claims of disingenuous fear-mongers, Religious Zionism and United Torah Judaism aim to enable gender segregation at events held and attended by those who wish to practice it.
Dec. 18, 2022
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Palestinian gunmen and mourners participate in the funeral procession of 16-year-old Jana Zakarneh, killed the previous night during an IDF raid in Jenin, Dec. 12, 2022. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
The making of a Palestinian martyr
The death of 16-year-old Jana Zakarneh is Ramallah’s latest excuse to enlist the international community in its effort to demonize Israel by accusing it of targeting children.
Dec. 13, 2022
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Israeli students and teachers wear protective face masks as they retun to school in Mevaseret Zion, May 17, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Israel’s coronavirus czar is rearing his head in time for Hanukkah
COVID-19 and its variants are likely here to stay, and we can live with that. It’s the officials with the power to dictate how we do so that we need to worry about.
Dec. 11, 2022
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Professor Alan Dershowitz speaks at a conference in Tel Aviv, Dec. 11, 2016. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Is Alan Dershowitz right to warn against the ‘override clause’?
Unlike Israel’s agenda-driven cynics, the world-renowned attorney has at least proven trustworthy where his views on the Jewish state are concerned, even if one disagrees with some of them.
Dec. 6, 2022
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Hady Amr speaks during the presentation of a report titled "Ending Gaza’s Perpetual Crisis: A New U.S. Approach,” at the Brookings Institution, Dec. 3, 2018. Source: Screenshot.
Senior Contributing Editor
No, Hady Amr is not ‘our friend’
The AJC shouldn’t be welcoming a U.S. appointee who assists forces bent on Israel’s destruction. But lauding him after expressing concern about the incoming government in Jerusalem is beyond inexcusable.
Dec. 4, 2022
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Israeli Transportation Minister and Labor Party leader Merav Michaeli opening a meeting of her faction at the Knesset in Jerusalem, Nov. 28, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
The false ‘Holon-Hebron’ parallel promoted by Israeli progressives and other sore losers
The “anyone but Bibi” crowd never lets the inconvenient truth that the spike in violence cannot be attributed to the incoming government disrupt its narrative. And Transportation Merav Michaeli is a queen bee of chutzpah on this score.
Nov. 29, 2022
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Gadi Taub at the Makor Rishon conference, Dec. 8, 2019. Source: Facebook.
Senior Contributing Editor
No, the ‘override clause’ won’t ‘crush’ Israeli democracy
Renowned pundit Gadi Taub makes a compelling case for the contentious aim of the incoming coalition to reduce the Supreme Court’s self-invested power to rule against laws enacted by the Knesset.
Nov. 22, 2022
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