Ruthie Blum

Jerusalem, Tel Aviv

Columnist at JNS

Senior Contributing Editor/Columnist @JNS_org. Former adviser at the Israeli Prime Minister's Office. Author of To Hell in a Handbasket.

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Articles

Will negotiations win the day with Iran?

3 weeks ago | jns.org | Ruthie Blum |Mark Regev

(June 4, 2025 / JNS)Will negotiations win the day or will Israel be forced into military action against Iran? Senior JNS contributing editor Ruthie Blum and former Israeli ambassador to the UK Mark Regev—both former advisers in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office—unpack the escalating nuclear crisis with Iran and the deepening tug-of-war within the Trump administration.
The real climate crisis is antisemitism

3 weeks ago | jns.org | Ruthie Blum

(June 3, 2025 / JNS)Shouting “End the Zionists” and “Free Palestine,” Mohamed Sabry Soliman—a 45-year-old illegal immigrant to the United States from Egypt—set Jews on fire on Sunday afternoon at the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado. Literally. With Molotov cocktails. One of the eight mostly senior citizens who were rushed to the hospital with serious burns was a Holocaust survivor. Her crime?
Robert Aderholt, Spencer Morrison, Ruthie Blum, David Closson

4 weeks ago | frc.org | Robert Aderholt |Spencer Morrison |Ruthie Blum |David Closson

On today’s program: Robert Aderholt, U.S. Representative for the 4th District of Alabama, reflects on Elon Musk’s work at DOGE and the spending cuts that President Trump aims to make permanent with next week’s rescissions package. Spencer Morrison, Author of “Reshore: How Tariffs Will Bring Our Jobs Home and Revive the American Dream,” analyzes the dueling court rulings over the president’s tariffs, as well as the economic and consumer impact.
Hamas hoodwinks UN and West in aid, negotiations

4 weeks ago | jns.org | Ruthie Blum |Mark Regev

(May 29, 2025 / JNS)As Hamas faces collapse, the United Nations rushes to its defense …In this episode, JNS senior contributing editor Ruthie Blum and former Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom Mark Regev expose how the United Nations is being manipulated to prolong Hamas’s rule over Gaza. Regev and Blum, both former advisers to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, uncover how Hamas has embedded itself within the very humanitarian infrastructure meant to aid civilians.
‘New York Times’ nothingburger about Trump and Netanyahu

1 month ago | jns.org | Ruthie Blum

(May 28, 2025 / JNS)The New York Times seems to think that multiple bylines make for a more credible story. Well, we’ve got “news” for the Gray Lady: Using several authors to craft a piece merely adds to its length. Perhaps the practice serves to pull the wool over the eyes of readers who tend to skim, rather than scour.
Yechiel Leiter’s refreshing ‘undiplomatic’ candor

1 month ago | jns.org | Ruthie Blum

(May 27, 2025 / JNS) The Foreign Ministry announced on Sunday that its director general, Eden Bar Tal, was summoning Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter for a hearing, in accordance with “the directive of the senior director of the disciplinary division at the Civil Service Commission.” The anticipated wrist-slapping is over remarks that Leiter made in an interview last week on the conservative PragerU podcast, “Real Talk with Marissa Streit.” During the course of the...
The tragic naiveté of liberal Jews

1 month ago | jns.org | Ruthie Blum

(May 23, 2025 / JNS)A young couple was executed in cold blood on Wednesday night, outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, 26—both staffers at the Israeli embassy—were leaving a cultural event promoting interfaith understanding when they were gunned down on the sidewalk. The shooter, 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez of Chicago, shouted “Free, free Palestine” while being handcuffed by police.
European leaders play defense for Hamas

1 month ago | jns.org | Ruthie Blum |Mark Regev

(May 22, 2025 / JNS)In this episode of “Israel Undiplomatic,” former Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom Mark Regev, and veteran journalist and political commentator Ruthie Blum—both former advisers in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office—tackle the harsh condemnations of Israel by three of its Western allies—Britain, France and Canada. With Gaza still under Hamas control and hostages yet to be released, the hosts argue that these countries are wrong on the facts and are enabling terror.
Levin gives Carlson a well-earned dressing-down - The Jewish Star

1 month ago | thejewishstar.com | Ruthie Blum

A spat between two MAGA media personalities reflects the ideological split in the movement.” Tucker Carlson is a master of disingenuousness, to put it generously. That’s why the only viewers still charmed by his trademark deer-in-the-headlights act are those on the right who champion the conspiracy theorists and antisemites to whom he regularly provides a platform. Some of his interviewees are overt Jew-haters; others covert ones who pretend that their only beef is with “Israeli policy.” You...
How could Jill Biden let it all happen?

1 month ago | israelnationalnews.com | 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, 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.