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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.

Israel Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Lieberman speaks during his party's election campaign conference in Tel Aviv, July 30, 2019. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Shameful comparisons in the name of politics
Referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the same breath as Kim Jong-un and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan goes beyond the pale.
Aug. 6, 2019
Ruthie Blum
UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl. Credit: U.N. TV/Multimedia.
Senior Contributing Editor
Schadenfreude and the UNRWA scandal
UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl collected money for business-class trips with his mistress, whom he fast-tracked into a role he invented for her so that she could accompany him around the world in style.
Jul. 30, 2019
Ruthie Blum
Saudi blogger Mahmoud Saud meets with Israeli Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter (left), then chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, July 22, 2019. Credit: Israeli Knesset.
Senior Contributing Editor
Spitting in the face of cooperation with Israel
Unlike Israel, which has a burgeoning understanding with many of its Arab neighbors based on a shared interest to prevent the Iranian regime from acquiring nuclear weapons, the Palestinians have been kissing up to Tehran.
Jul. 23, 2019
Ruthie Blum
Evan Cohen (left), Israel's new foreign press adviser, announced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on June 14, 2019. Source: Twitter.
Senior Contributing Editor
Evan Cohen: Netanyahu’s perfect pick for foreign press adviser
Even the prime minister’s enemies at home are fully aware that it takes weeks of bureaucracy to fill public-servant posts, so they had to limit their baseless accusations to the “suspicious timing” of the announcement.
Jul. 16, 2019
Ruthie Blum
Israel’s Ambassador to Brazil Yossi Shelley dining with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. The picture features a poorly doctored covering up (with black X marks) of the two men eating lobsters, which is forbidden under Jewish dietary law and sparked a minor controversy in Israel. Credit: Twitter.
Senior Contributing Editor
‘Lobstergate’ and non-kosher coercion
The positive side to this story is that the country had some comic relief from the genuine clawing controversies of the day. Less amusing is arousing the wrath of the country’s more extreme religious elements.
Jul. 9, 2019
Ruthie Blum
Former Israel Prime Minister Ehud Barak (left) and IDF Maj. Gen. (res.) Yair Golan attend a press conference announcing the establishment of a political party led by Barak in Tel Aviv on June 26, 2019. Credit: Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Ehud Barak, Yair Golan and Israel’s ‘New Left’
Only radical leftists in Israel and abroad believe that the IDF is ethically reckless, or that the Jewish state is not “very strict” when it comes to monitoring its own morality.
Jul. 2, 2019
Ruthie Blum
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributing Editor
Erdoğan’s loss is Israel’s gain
Istanbul, home to 20 percent of the Turkish population, has been emboldened by the mayoral victory of Ekrem Imamoğlu. It won’t take long for other areas of the country to follow suit.
Jun. 25, 2019
Ruthie Blum
A general view of the assembly hall in the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on June 12, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
The appalling political exploitation of a 7-year-old’s rape
With three months to go before the “do-over” Knesset elections, no issue is off-limits in the fray.
Jun. 18, 2019
Ruthie Blum
David Friedman
Senior Contributing Editor
An ill-deserved assault on Ambassador David Friedman
He said nothing controversial whatsoever about the West Bank, except in the eyes of those who consider any Israeli territorial or other claims illegitimate.
Jun. 11, 2019
Ruthie Blum
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses talk of a closed-door meeting hosted by the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations on May 28, 2019. Credit: Ron Przysucha/U.S. Department of State.
Senior Contributing Editor
Pompeo’s justified low expectations for the Mideast plan
On the very day that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was convening in New York with Jewish leaders, P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas was at a ceremony in Ramallah denouncing the Trump administration’s “deal of disgrace,” which he said “will go to hell.”
Jun. 4, 2019
Ruthie Blum
Illustration of kippot for sale. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Germany’s bare-headed brouhaha
Felix Klein was raising the kind of awareness that no dry statistics on Jew-hatred in the country that gave rise to the genocide of the Jews have succeeded in eliciting.
May. 28, 2019
Ruthie Blum
IRGC
Senior Contributing Editor
Iran’s proxy war is the real problem
While a full-scale war with Tehran does not appear likely in the near future, low-intensity conflict against the West and its allies already is already being waged all over the world.
May. 21, 2019
Ruthie Blum
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