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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.

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas addresses an Arab League emergency meeting in Cairo, Feb. 1, 2020. Source: Screenshot.
Senior Contributing Editor
The Israeli left vs. Palestinian and Arab-world pragmatists
Hearts that bleed for the enemies of Western democracy who subjugate their own people and terrorize everybody else are attached to heads in need of psychiatric examination.
Feb. 11, 2020
Ruthie Blum
Representatives from the Israeli emergency medical services’ organization Magen David Adom pack boxes of protective gear, responding to a request by Chabad to help communities in China amid the coronavirus outbreak, February 2020. Credit: Courtesy.
Senior Contributing Editor
Corona and the Chinese ambassador’s Holocaust chutzpah
Dai Yuming was being a true loyal Communist diplomat, spewing strategic propaganda with a purpose, part of which is to deflect from some inconvenient truths.
Feb. 4, 2020
Ruthie Blum
U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence participate in an expanded bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, Jan. 27, 2020. Photo by D. Myles Cullen/White House.
Senior Contributing Editor
Netanyahu pulls the rug out from under his rivals
Hours before the ceremony in Washington with U.S. President Donald Trump to present the Mideast peace plan, including a map of the borders of the proposed demilitarized Palestinian state, the Israeli premier announced that he was withdrawing his request for immunity.
Jan. 28, 2020
Ruthie Blum
Fatah threatens the burning of Jewish towns as part of continued terrorism against Israelis and as an effort, along with the proposition of murder, to stop the Fifth World Holocaust Forum and other commemorative memorials from taking place during the week of Jan. 19, 2020. Source: Palestinian Media Watch.
Senior Contributing Editor
Holocaust remembrance, Palestinian irrelevance
Bemoaning all the apparent attention on the Jews prior to the Fifth World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, a columnist for the official Palestinian Authority daily newspaper “Al-Hayat Al-Jadida” proposed murder as a solution to stop the proceedings.
Jan. 21, 2020
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Jewish Home Party chairman Rabbi Rafi Peretz attends a conference in Ramat Gan of the Jewish Home Party to approve the party's upcoming union with Otzma Yehudit Party towards the upcoming general elections, Jan. 13, 2020. Photo by Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Israel’s education minister gets taught a lesson
Rafi Peretz should spend more time on Israel’s academic record and school curricula, and less time poking around in the business of family choices.
Jan. 14, 2020
Ruthie Blum
Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai attends a protest outside Cinemateque in Tel Aviv, on October 27, 2018. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90
Senior Contributing Editor
Tel Aviv’s mayor should be drowning in tears
An unfathomable tragedy struck a young couple, and what followed were statements of self-defense and partisan squabbling, instead of proper sorrow for two families.
Jan. 7, 2020
Ruthie Blum
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in London on Sept. 5, 2019. Photo by Chaim Tzach/GPO.
Senior Contributing Editor
Happy Hanukkah from Trump and Johnson
Two world leaders convey much more than conventionally sappy, Hallmark card-like messages to Jews celebrating the Festival of Lights.
Dec. 24, 2019
Ruthie Blum
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo holds a joint press availability with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the State Department in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 10, 2019. Credit: U.S. State Department Photo by Ron Przysucha/Public Domain.
Senior Contributing Editor
Pompeo brings down the House
The U.S. Secretary of State turns the tables on the false correlation between the existence of settlements and the lack of peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
Dec. 17, 2019
Ruthie Blum
The Grand Bazaar in Tehran as strikes and protests against Iran's economic situation have taken hold since 2018, when the United States enforced new sanctions after leaving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Credit: Omid Vahabzadeh via Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributing Editor
The ayatollahs’ anxiety is showing
Faced with internecine strife and external pressure from the United States and Israel, Iranian honchos appear to be growing agitated.
Dec. 10, 2019
Ruthie Blum
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (right) before the grave of Atef Bseiso, the mastermind behind the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, as published in the British press.
Senior Contributing Editor
‘Why do they hate us?’
Europeans, specifically those in the United Kingdom as they approach elections, “are reluctant to accept and admit that, despite all the Holocaust education and commemoration that’s taking place—and all the solemn declarations about having thoroughly learned the lessons of the past—anti-Semitism has returned in such strength.”
Dec. 3, 2019
Ruthie Blum
Supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demonstrate outside his residence following the announcement by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit on indictment charges, November 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Netanyahu indictments are shifting few Israeli voters
The only move has been among some of his supporters who fear having the greatest and longest-serving leader in Israel’s history end his career on a low note.
Nov. 26, 2019
Ruthie Blum
U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo participate in a press conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Feb. 28, 2019. Credit: State Department Photo by Ron Przysucha.
Senior Contributing Editor
Trump makes pro-Israel history again
Every action that his administration has taken stems from the understanding that the so-called “Israeli-Palestinian peace process” has failed repeatedly—not only as a result of being based on a false premise, but of following the same old paradigm.
Nov. 19, 2019
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