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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.

Protests in Khuzestan, July 24, 2021. Source: Twitter via Alireza Jafarzadeh.
Senior Contributing Editor
How do you say déjà vu in Farsi?
Sadly, nothing has changed since the days when Joe Biden was vice president. If anything, the Democrats’ willful blindness about Iran has increased.
Jul. 27, 2021
Ruthie Blum
UNRWA Food Distribution
Senior Contributing Editor
Biden’s reward to UNRWA for bad behavior
Every syllable of the “Framework for Cooperation” between the United States and the U.N agency is a lie, but journalists were bowled over by the inclusion of “anti-Semitism” in the document’s list of false denunciations.
Jul. 20, 2021
Ruthie Blum
Jonathan Greenblatt
Senior Contributing Editor
The ADL chief’s disingenuous epiphany about left-wing anti-Semitism
Lest one was tempted by Jonathan Greenblatt’s recent op-ed to give him credit for doing his job, he made sure to let his leanings come out in the conclusion.
Jul. 13, 2021
Ruthie Blum
American, Israeli Flags
Senior Contributing Editor
Of stars, stripes and red flags
Though the radicals’ sullying of patriotic icons is disconcerting, most Americans and Israelis celebrate their countries’ independence with fanfare.
Jul. 6, 2021
Ruthie Blum
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in the Knesset, on June 21, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Lapid, don’t count on courting Democrats
Israel’s new foreign minister ought to be rethinking the kind of American bipartisanship that’s even attainable, let alone desirable.
Jun. 29, 2021
Ruthie Blum
A room in the Blue Salon at the Palais Coburg Hotel in Vienna, the site of past and present nuclear negotiations, July 4, 2015. Credit: U.S. State Department.
Senior Contributing Editor
Washington doublethink and the Iran deal
The Biden administration ought to take home the gold in the George Orwell Olympics for considering Ebrahim Raisi’s election an opportunity for a swift return to the JCPOA.
Jun. 22, 2021
Ruthie Blum
Israelis celebrate the swearing-in of the new government at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, June 13, 2021. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Comic relief from a serious Israeli drama
The left’s euphoria at having former nemesis Naftali Bennett head the new government would be hilarious if the country’s challenges weren’t so monumental.
Jun. 15, 2021
Ruthie Blum
Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman visits at the 8th International UVID Conference at the Avenue Convention Center in Airport City, Nov. 7, 2019. Photo by Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Why the Shin Bet chief isn’t so hush-hush anymore
Israel’s Internal Security Agency head, Nadav Argaman, seems to have his sights set on his next career move.
Jun. 8, 2021
Ruthie Blum
Rutgers University in New Jersey
Senior Contributing Editor
Anti-Semitism at Rutgers isn’t all academic
Robbing Jew-hatred of its particularity is the aim of Students for Justice in Palestine. But university administrators can be colluders through cowardice.
Jun. 1, 2021
Ruthie Blum
An anti-Israel protest in Times Square, New York City, May 11, 2021. Credit: Andrew Ratto/Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributing Editor
Heading to New York with trepidation and a Star of David
The very idea that Jews are being beaten to a pulp in Midtown Manhattan is as inconceivable as the acts are criminal.
May. 25, 2021
Ruthie Blum
A Palestinian rioter raises his hands in a "V" for "victory" near the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Photo by Sliman Khader/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
The Palestinian leaders’ Al-Aqsa hoax strikes again
Distorting the reality of the Temple Mount as a tool for spurring death and destruction comes naturally to the honchos in Ramallah and Gaza.
May. 11, 2021
Ruthie Blum
Israelis light candles at Habima Square in Tel Aviv for the 45 people killed in a crushing crowd at Mount Meron during Lag B'Omer celebrations, May 1, 2021. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Mount Meron and Israel’s paradoxical nature
Though the Jewish state exhibits unity after most mass tragedies, the public’s response to the Lag B’Omer catastrophe is particularly noteworthy.
May. 4, 2021
Ruthie Blum
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