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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.

Christopher Wray
Senior Contributing Editor
The FBI contributes to antisemitism while claiming to combat it
Shame on the U.S. Justice Department for abetting Israel’s enemies abroad and Jew-haters at home.
Nov. 20, 2022
Ruthie Blum
Credit: howtostartablogonline.net via Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributing Editor
Judgment day for Israel’s legal system
The pathetic punishment meted out to a Bedouin who sodomized a little girl in her Negev home helps explain the advent of the country’s new “full, full, right-wing” government.
Nov. 15, 2022
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Likud Party chairman MK Benjamin Netanyahu, after coalition talks at a Jerusalem hotel, Nov. 6, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Let’s replace the term ‘national unity’ with ‘majority rule’
Whereas the sole glue for Yair Lapid’s coalition was anti-Bibi animosity, Benjamin Netanyahu’s espouses a set of values and objectives shared by a higher percentage of the population.
Nov. 13, 2022
Ruthie Blum
Religious Zionism Party head Bezalel Smotrich speaks at the Knesset ceremony marking the 27th anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Nov. 6, 2022. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Remembering Rabin, assassinating his rivals’ character
Because of the brouhaha surrounding Bezalel Smotrich’s speech at the memorial for Israel’s slain prime minister, another address received a lot less attention than it deserved: the one delivered by Merav Michaeli.
Nov. 8, 2022
Ruthie Blum
Then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend a dinner at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, March 9, 2010. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Bibi’s victory, Biden administration blues
The Israeli public, which just chose to replace its ruling caretaker coalition with a right-wing one, is hoping for a congressional “red wave.” In such an event, the U.S. president’s belated felicitations to Netanyahu will contain a subtext that makes the White House wince.
Nov. 6, 2022
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Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Ram Ben Barak leads meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 10, 2022. Photo by Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
The hypocrisy of the Israeli left’s calling dibs on democracy
Let this sink in: According to the chairman of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, if the public grants a majority to Netanyahu, Israel will morph into a combination of Nazi Germany and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Oct. 30, 2022
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Israeli Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli arrives at the weekly Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, Sept. 18, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussil/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
The danger of another Israeli electoral deadlock
An inability of either the Likud-led camp or the “anybody but Bibi” bloc will enable the incumbent government ministers to stay put for the foreseeable future. One of these is radical-leftist Merav Michaeli.
Oct. 25, 2022
Ruthie Blum
Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria clash with Israeli security forces during a protest at the Huwara checkpoint, south of Nablus, Oct. 4, 2022. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
The ‘settler violence’ narrative and Knesset elections
When an Israeli commits a criminal act, he or she is arrested and prosecuted. The opposite is the case in the P.A., where those who kill Jews are hailed as heroes.
Oct. 23, 2022
Ruthie Blum
President Donald Trump speaks at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, May 23, 2017. Credit: U.S. Embassy.
Senior Contributing Editor
Donald Trump’s justified critique of American Jews
The response to the former U.S. president’s Truth Social post has been nothing short of a hysterical—purposeful—misreading of his words, which were neither threatening nor anti-Semitic.
Oct. 18, 2022
Ruthie Blum
Former prime minister Ehud Barak speaks at the Haaretz Democracy Conference in Jaffa, Nov. 9, 2021. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Ehud Barak’s outlandish accusations
Rewriting history isn’t the former Israeli prime minister’s only specialty. Projection is another. But his latest assertions about Benjamin Netanyahu’s camp were more like slander and libel than mere hypocrisy.
Oct. 16, 2022
Ruthie Blum
Meretz Party leader Zehava Gal-On, at a meeting with members of the LGBT community in Tel Aviv, Sept. 4, 2022. Credit: Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Israel’s far-left is no better than the anti-Zionist Arab parties
The Likud campaign should shine more of the negative spotlight on Meretz, whose pro-Palestinian chairwoman defended misogyny against Sara Netanyahu—on the grounds that the opposition leader’s wife “brought it on herself.”
Oct. 11, 2022
Ruthie Blum
Interim Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid delivers a speech at a ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem for Israel Defense Forces soldiers who fell in the Yom Kippur War, Oct. 6, 2022. Credit: Prime Minister's Office.
Senior Contributing Editor
Yair Lapid’s holiday bloopers
Just as worrisome as his ignorance of rudimentary Judaism is the fact that Israel’s interim prime minister isn’t even capable of pulling off the rabbinic pretense. One can hardly wait to hear what cringe-worthy pearls he’s prepared for Sukkot.
Oct. 9, 2022
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