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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.

An unspecified prison cell in 2011. Credit: Bob Jagendorf/Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributing Editor
A Turkish hostage crisis in the making?
Natalie and Mordy Oknin would already be on a plane back to Israel if Erdoğan were to give the go-ahead. He rules Turkey’s roost, and all attempts to gloss over that fact are counterproductive.
Nov. 16, 2021
Ruthie Blum
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz sucks on a lollipop while talking to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid during a plenum session and a vote on the state budget at the Knesset in Jerusalem, Nov. 3, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Eating Knesset candy and drinking the Kool-Aid
The whole lollipop-licking plenum looked as puerile as it’s been sounding, with childish verbiage and decibel levels not even fit for a playground.
Nov. 9, 2021
Ruthie Blum
Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas and party members at their headquarters in Tamra on election night, March 23, 2021. Photo by Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Hamas widows, orphans and ties to the Israeli coalition
A report on the transfer of Ra’am Party money to a “charity” in Gaza is being underplayed by a government bent on passing the state budget and staying intact.
Nov. 2, 2021
Ruthie Blum
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz at a meeting of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in Jerusalem on Oct. 19, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
The bigger picture behind the narrow Gantz-NGO controversy
The brouhaha surrounding the Israeli defense minister’s designation of six “humanitarian” NGOs as terrorist organizations highlights two greater issues.
Oct. 26, 2021
Ruthie Blum
The Nobel Peace Prize laureates for 1994 in Oslo, Norway. From left: Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) chairman Yasser Arafat, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Credit: Israeli GPO.
Senior Contributing Editor
Rabin, Peres, #MeToo and the battle among sacred cows
If anyone was still wondering whether sexual assault trumps Palestinian statehood or the other way around, this week provided a pretty clear answer.
Oct. 19, 2021
Ruthie Blum
Comedian Dave Chappelle in the “The Closer,” 2021. Credit: Netflix.
Senior Contributing Editor
Cancel culture is no laughing matter
Comedian Dave Chappelle may have crossed a line with recent anti-Semitic jokes, but his rejection of “woke” totalitarianism is a breath of fresh air.
Oct. 12, 2021
Ruthie Blum
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas (left) with Israeli Health Minister and Meretz head Nitzan Horowitz at the Muqata in Ramallah, Oct. 3, 2021. Source: Twitter.
Senior Contributing Editor
Meretz’s pilgrimage to Ramallah
It seems that only the left in Israel and elsewhere still buys the “two-state solution” baloney.
Oct. 5, 2021
Ruthie Blum
Palestinians in the village of Kafr Qaddoum, west of Nablus, riot on behalf of the terrorists who escaped from Israel's Gilboa Prison, Sept. 10, 2021. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
They’re terrorists, not ‘security prisoners’
The media’s distortion of language in relation to Israel and the Palestinians is especially disconcerting—and par for the course—on the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
Sep. 14, 2021
Ruthie Blum
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett holds a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on Aug. 18, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Bennett can’t have it both ways with Biden
Remaining true to Israeli interests and “bridging gaps” with the Democratic Party is a contradiction in terms.
Aug. 24, 2021
Ruthie Blum
Jewish youngsters in Poland to participate in the annual March of the Living gaze into the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site, April 16, 2015. Credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
A rift of Poland’s making
Enacting anti-Semitic laws is not the way to keep the Jewish state in Warsaw’s corner.
Aug. 17, 2021
Ruthie Blum
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (center) and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (left) during a Cabinet meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem on Aug. 8, 2021. Photo by Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL.
Senior Contributing Editor
Iranian aggression and Israel’s fragile coalition
The Islamic Republic and its proxies within and surrounding the Jewish state are paying attention to Bennett’s deeds, not his admonitions. So far, the former have outweighed the latter by miles.
Aug. 10, 2021
Ruthie Blum
"Haaretz" political correspondent Chaim Levinson. Source: Facebook.
Senior Contributing Editor
American immigrants who leave Israel don’t deserve disdain
It’s the height of arrogance to assert knowledge of what goes on in other people’s souls. But with that, Chaim Levinson has opened a window into his own, revealing a bowlful of sour grapes.
Aug. 3, 2021
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