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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.

The Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem a few days before Yom Hazikaron, April 11, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Israel’s Memorial Day is about war, not peace
This year’s Defense Ministry memento to bereaved families makes a mockery of the current situation and all the blood spilled by the Jewish state’s enemies throughout the decades.
May. 3, 2022
Ruthie Blum
Palestinians wave Hamas flags outside the Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem during the last Friday of Ramadan, April 29, 2022. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Ramadan goes out with a bang
The residents of Ramallah and Gaza, with encouragement from Iran and its proxies, are gearing up for Eid al-Fitr by preparing sweets to distribute whenever a Jew is gunned down or stabbed to death.
May. 1, 2022
Ruthie Blum
Warsaw Ghetto Square at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 21, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
The here and now of Holocaust remembrance
Embracing the bogus comparison between Hitler’s “final solution” and other conflicts is as ill-fated as believing that a repeat performance is inevitable.
Apr. 26, 2022
Ruthie Blum
Palestinians fly Hamas flags after Ramadan prayers at the Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, April 22, 2022. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Where the ‘dual loyalty’ accusation actually applies
Israel as a beacon in a sea of barbarism isn’t a Jewish issue, which is why the “dual loyalty” canard is a complete lie. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of those Arab citizens of Israel who side with their country’s mortal enemies.
Apr. 24, 2022
Ruthie Blum
Jewish worshipers reciting the Priestly Blessing at the Western Wall in Jerusalem during Passover, April 18, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Obfuscating the particularity of Passover
What this Jewish holiday is not, or at least shouldn’t be, is an opportunity to bemoan the lack of freedom experienced—or imagined—by all human beings everywhere.
Apr. 19, 2022
Ruthie Blum
Palestinian and Arab-Israeli rioters hurl rocks at Israeli security forces during Ramadan prayers at the Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, April 15, 2022. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
How the US perpetuates Palestinian violence
Instead of directing its denunciations where they belong, the Biden administration is buying and selling the anti-Semitic deception that Israel is spurring Muslim rage by attempting to change the status quo on the Temple Mount.
Apr. 17, 2022
Ruthie Blum
Israelis light memorial candles at the site of the June 7, 2022 terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Fear terrorism, not the Israelis defending against it
Contrary to the aspersions cast by external or internal ill-wishers, Israelis are far from trigger-happy.
Apr. 12, 2022
Ruthie Blum
Police and rescue workers at the scene of a terrorist shooting spree at the Ilka pub in Tel Aviv, April 7, 2022. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Crossing a line in coverage of the Tel Aviv carnage
One correspondent went as far as to tail soldiers on a door-to-door search for the terrorist, with a camera rolling on their faces and weapons.
Apr. 10, 2022
Ruthie Blum
Palestinian rioters clash with Israel Police officers at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, April 3, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
A Ramadan intifada?
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid’s tour of the Damascus Gate was no more of a “provocation” than Ariel Sharon’s 2000 visit to the Temple Mount.
Apr. 5, 2022
Ruthie Blum
The funeral of Laura Yitzhak, who was murdered in a terrorist attack in Beersheva on March 22, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Jihad by any other name
There it was: an admission that the “nakba” is and always has been at the root of the conflict, which is why statehood alongside Israel is not the remedy that the Palestinian Authority is seeking.
Apr. 3, 2022
Ruthie Blum
Thousands gather at Tel Aviv's Habima Square to watch Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy deliver a Zoom address to the Knesset, March 20, 2022. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Zelensky’s unfortunate Knesset address
The Ukrainian leader being hailed as a heroic David fending off an evil Goliath not only chastised the Jewish state; he totally distorted Holocaust history in the process.
Mar. 22, 2022
Ruthie Blum
Amnesty International USA executive director Paul O'Brien addresses the Women’s National Democratic Club, Washington, D.C., on March 9, 2022. Source: Twitter.
Senior Contributing Editor
A free lunch for Amnesty’s anti-Semitism
Even the “anti-Israel is the new pro-Israel” camp knows that Netanyahu didn’t drive a “wedge” between Republicans and Democrats.
Mar. 15, 2022
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