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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.

Peter Beinart
Senior Contributing Editor
Peter Beinart’s assault on the Abraham Accords
It takes a special kind of vicious creativity to concoct a universe in which peace, if forged by or with Israel, is evil.
Oct. 27, 2020
Ruthie Blum
Ayman Odeh
Senior Contributing Editor
Arab-Israeli politicians against peace
The Joint List—the third-largest faction in the Knesset—is more hostile to Zionists than the sheikhs of Abu Dhabi and Manama.
Oct. 20, 2020
Ruthie Blum
Gal Gadot. Credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr.
Senior Contributing Editor
Gal Gadot’s rude ‘wokening’
What Israel’s “Wonder Woman” ought to have learned by now is that the animosity she’s experiencing cannot be countered through appeasement.
Oct. 13, 2020
Ruthie Blum
Ariel University in Samaria. Source: LinkedIn.
Senior Contributing Editor
The ‘chemistry’ of anti-Israel propaganda
This is not the first time that Ariel University has been targeted by left-wing academics who toe the Palestinian line.
Oct. 6, 2020
Ruthie Blum
Judge Amy Coney Barrett delivers remarks after U.S. President Donald Trump announced her as his nominee for Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Rose Garden at the White House on Sept. 26, 2020. Credit: White House/Andrea Hanks.
Senior Contributing Editor
Amy Coney Barrett, Jewish liberals and the US Constitution
For Jews who worship at the altar of abortion and gun control, RBG was practically a religious figure, and filling her seat with a Catholic who rejects judicial activism is blasphemous.
Sep. 29, 2020
Ruthie Blum
Israeli Police at a temporary checkpoint in Jerusalem during the second nationwide coronavirus lockdown, Sept. 22, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Days of awe (and loopholes)
With fear of the virus at an all-time low, Israelis have been acting as though the only thing they have to worry about is coming up with convincing lies about why they’re not at home.
Sep. 22, 2020
Ruthie Blum
Protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official residence in Jerusalem on Sept. 12, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Hell hath no fury like peaceniks upstaged
Though it’s hard to keep track of their disparate gripes, their response to the Abraham Accords makes it easy to spot their hypocrisy.
Sep. 15, 2020
Ruthie Blum
Israelis, wearing face masks for fear of the coronavirus, shop for grocery at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on August 20, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90
Senior Contributing Editor
Viral apathy in Israel
Gone is the refrain: “We’re all in this together.” In its place is: “Why are only some sectors allowed the privilege of congregating in close quarters?”
Sep. 8, 2020
Ruthie Blum
Israelis take part in a demonstration in Tel Aviv to support of the 16-year-old victim of a gang rape in Eilat, Aug. 23, 2020. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Gang rape at the Red Sea Hotel
While there is national consensus in Israel about the evils of sexual abuse, there is little agreement on the root causes of the problem.
Aug. 25, 2020
Ruthie Blum
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the phone with U.S. President Donald Trump and UAE Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Aug. 13, 2020. Credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO.
Senior Contributing Editor
Netanyahu’s bold move
The Israeli right is wrong to see the prime minister’s deal with the UAE as a capitulation to foreign pressure. He is creating optimal conditions for the Jewish state’s road ahead.
Aug. 18, 2020
Ruthie Blum
The Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem on May 4, 2020. Photo by Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL.
Senior Contributing Editor
Israel’s High Court hits a new low
That left-wing activists consider the demolition of terrorists’ homes a cruel form of “collective punishment” is par for the course. But judges are not supposed to base their rulings on political bias.
Aug. 11, 2020
Ruthie Blum
An Israeli protester in Israel against the economic and political policies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Source: Facebook via Moshik Kovarsky.
Senior Contributing Editor
Look who’s calling whom ‘unXeptable’
With all their verbiage, the one question that the protesters are not able to answer is how Netanyahu is harming Israeli democracy. That’s because he isn’t.
Aug. 4, 2020
Ruthie Blum
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