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Ruthie Blum is an Israel-based journalist and author of “To Hell in a Handbasket: Carter, Obama, and the ‘Arab Spring.’ ”
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By Ruthie Blum
Predictably, the tragedy has become yet another bone of political and cultural contention, since the people involved are charedim. Never mind that disasters of all kinds have occurred in both licensed and unlicensed daycare centers, in various socioeconomic areas with no particular religious affiliation.
By Ruthie Blum
The claim that the Israeli prime minister crafted the U.S. president’s Truth Social post is as laughable as it is a lie.
By Ruthie Blum
Through the calm dismantling of a contrived provocation, the Jewish state upheld its dignity while letting its detractors reveal their own absurdity.
By Ruthie Blum
A spat between two MAGA media personalities reflects the ideological split in the movement—and in the Trump administration.
By Ruthie Blum
As veteran Israeli commentator on Arab affairs Zvi Yehezkeli points out, “If those protesting Hamas had a chance, they would commit Oct. 7 again.”
By Ruthie Blum
Israeli feminists fit in perfectly with the groups concerned with the plight of females, as long as they aren’t the wrong kind of Jews.
By Ruthie Blum
The children of Gaza and the Palestinian Authority are raised on a steady diet of hatred. Their heroes are bombers, not Batman.
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Though Bibi opted not to take advantage of the U.S. president's ultimatum to Hamas, the rallying cry against him from the usual suspects continues.
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Lest “The New York Times” be accused of basing its entire screed on anonymous sources, it made sure to include a quote from—you guessed it—a Gazan.
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An Israeli broadcast journalist reporting on world leaders who condemned the pogrom in Amsterdam paused after quoting tweets by U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to ask a snide rhetorical question. “And guess who hasn’t responded to the antisemitic attacks in The Netherlands?” she said, sneering with unadulterated schadenfreude. “Donald Trump,” […]
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While threatening a severe retaliatory blow to the Jewish state, Tehran appears to be pausing for the result of the U.S. election—and praying for Harris to win.
By Ruthie Blum
The precision strike on Hamas and Islamic Jihad officers embedded in a mosque within a school compound is being falsely depicted as a mass-casualty incident.
By Ruthie Blum
The only “leak” worthy of praise rather than censure this week was made inadvertently by an IDF fighter in Gaza.
By Ruthie Blum
The quiet release of Shifa Hospital director Mohammed Abu Salmiya to Gaza is a travesty that must not go unpunished.
By Ruthie Blum
It is unconscionable to cast a shadow on the very conduct that’s being seized upon by ill-wishers to discriminate against the Jewish state.
By Ruthie Blum
Languishing in blissful ignorance is no longer an option—or of any interest.
By Ruthie Blum
The obligatory Holocaust Remembrance Day mantra rings hollow in the wake of the Oct. 7 massacre.
By Ruthie Blum
Anybody who parrots the slander that Netanyahu doesn’t care about returning the hostages is ruining the chance of a deal Israel can accept.
By Ruthie Blum
In the Orwellian universe of the U.N., where “Jewish lobby” conspiracy theorists like Francesca Albanese are embraced, good is evi
By Ruthie Blum
Putin decries the Moscow massacre, while siding with the genocidal butchers of Oct. 7.
By Ruthie Blum
A short memory may be helpful as a coping mechanism, but it is deadly in matters of foreign policy.
By Ruthie Blum
Former Public Security Minister Omer Barlev is a private citizen with the rights that entails. But he’s also the chairman of a commercial enterprise who ought to take his position into account while bashing a community of consumers.
By Ruthie Blum
Baruch Ben-Yigal's story is a perfect metaphor for the indelible link between death and rebirth that is Israel's curse and blessing.
By Ruthie Blum
Herzog’s attempt to broker a compromise by appeasing the “resistance” is a waste of time--The protest movement aims for a complete halt to the legislative process and the ultimate fall of the Jewish state’s democratically elected government.
By Ruthie Blum
That enemy eulogies of the Jewish state are given a boost by the Israeli press may be disconcerting, but it’s the price—and privilege—of free speech. Soldiers don’t enjoy such a luxury, however.
By Ruthie Blum
The idea that it’s possible at this juncture to conduct rational talks with hysteria-mongering judicial-reform rejectionists is tenuous, at best.
By Ruthie Blum
The terrorist murder of two children and a newlywed didn’t put a dent in the demonstrations against the so-called “death of democracy.”
By Ruthie Blum
It’s hard to believe that the anti-government propagandists could sink any lower, but they managed this week to outdo themselves.
By Ruthie Blum
Protesters bemoaning a concocted danger—the so-called “death of Israeli democracy” at the hands of the Netanyahu-led government—made a mockery of the actual mass murder of innocents.
By Ruthie Blum
The predictable NY Times attack on the incoming Netanyahu government was an exercise in “legitimate” delegitimization.
By Ruthie Blum
Contrary to the claims of disingenuous fear-mongers, Religious Zionism and United Torah Judaism aim to enable gender segregation at events held and attended by those who wish to practice it.
By Ruthie Blum
COVID-19 and its variants are likely here to stay, and we can live with that. It’s the officials with the power to dictate how we do so that we need to worry about.
By Ruthie Blum
The “anyone but Bibi” crowd never lets the inconvenient truth that the spike in violence cannot be attributed to the incoming government disrupt its narrative. And Transportation Merav Michaeli is the queen bee of chutzpah on this score.
By Ruthie Blum
The pathetic punishment meted out to a Bedouin who sodomized a little girl in her Negev home helps explain the advent of the country’s new “full, full, right-wing” government.
By Ruthie Blum
Whereas the sole glue for Yair Lapid’s coalition was anti-Bibi animosity, Benjamin Netanyahu’s espouses a set of values and objectives shared by a higher percentage of the population.
By Ruthie Blum
The response to the former US president's Truth Social post has been nothing short of a hysterical – purposeful – misreading of his words, which were neither threatening nor antisemitic
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Rewriting history isn’t the former Israeli prime minister’s only specialty. Projection is another. But his latest assertions about Benjamin Netanyahu’s camp were more like slander and libel than mere hypocrisy.
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Just as worrisome as his ignorance of rudimentary Judaism is the fact that Israel’s interim prime minister isn’t even capable of pulling off the rabbinic pretense. One can hardly wait to hear what cringe-worthy pearls he’s prepared for Sukkot.
By Ruthie Blum
The climate in Israel surrounding the upcoming Knesset election has been puttingTwo current travesties perfectly illustrate why I myself cannot feel anything but contempt for the interim government, headed by caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid, coupled with a sense of urgency that it be replaced by a Likud party-led coalition. a bit of a damper on this year's Days of Awe.
By Ruthie Blum
The protests in Iran over the killing of Mahsa Amini for not wearing a proper hijab present an opportunity that Washington won’t take.
By Ruthie Blum
Taking a page from the Israel-bashers’ playbook, the U.S. president added “disingenuousness” to his demonization, imposing of double standards and delegitimization of Republicans—the “three Ds” that Natan Sharansky proposed as proof of anti-Semitism.
By Ruthie Blum
The Jerusalem-based World Holocaust Remembrance Center, which professes not to “fall prey to any political agenda,” is defending its recent hire of a post-Zionist “conscientious objector” who compared the IDF to the Nazi Wehrmacht.
By Ruthie Blum
Israeli voters must take into account that Iran and the Palestinian Authority are working to keep the Likud Party leader from reassuming the premiership.
By Ruthie Blum
Biden should consider the assault to be a metaphor for the dangers inherent in the West’s falling prey to the deadly machine that emboldened the terrorist from New J
By Ruthie Blum
An honest conversation has to be had about the psychology and cultural norms that lead so many victims of abuse to become obstacles to, as opposed to participants in, their rescue.
By Ruthie Blum
Despite this past year’s failed “experiment” in coalition-building and governance, the same people are at it again, reciting tired mantras about the need to “keep Bibi out of Balfour.”
By Ruthie Blum
Israel’s Muslim-Arab neighbors in the Gulf have been given reason to be nervous about putting their faith in a U.S.-led, anti-Iran coalition with Israel at the forefront.
By Ruthie Blum
'Free World Leader' described the JCPOA as “a nuclear deal that was working,” and bemoaned that America under Trump “found itself isolated and alone” for condemning Iranian nuclear activity. Let that sink in.
By Ruthie Blum
That the U.S. president who reversed the freeze on American aid to the “pay for slay” Palestinian Authority is receiving Israel’s Presidential Medal is worse than ironic.
By Ruthie Blum
Has anybody actually read the falsely dubbed “Don’t say gay” DeSantis bill?
By Ruthie Blum
Even those who dread another round of Knesset elections ought to take into consideration that Meretz MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi is a dubious (and dangerous) voice.
By Ruthie Blum
Given her performance to date, the actress, producer and author deserves not only an apology, but accolades, from those who doubted her abilities to serve as Israel’s first-ever Special Envoy for Combating Anti-Semitism and Delegitimization.
By Ruthie Blum
The residents of Ramallah and Gaza, with encouragement from Iran and its proxies, are gearing up for Eid al-Fitr by preparing sweets to distribute whenever a Jew is gunned down or stabbed to death.
By Ruthie Blum
Even the “anti-Israel is the new pro-Israel” camp knows that Netanyahu didn’t drive a “wedge” between Republicans and Democrats.
By Ruthie Blum
The Bennett-Lapid government’s attitude towards the Biden administration casts doubt on its threat to go it alone.
By Ruthie Blum
Whatever Israel’s defense minister may have told himself and others about what took place during his latest session with the Palestinian Authority leader, it certainly wasn’t “confidence-building.”
By Ruthie Blum
The Israeli PM’s social-media team blocked a bereaved parent—on the day of Eliyahu Kay’s killing, no less.
By Ruthie Blum
The whole lollipop-licking plenum looked as puerile last week as it’s been sounding, with childish verbiage and decibel levels not even fit for a playground.
By Ruthie Blum
If anyone was still wondering whether sexual assault trumps Palestinian statehood or the other way around, this week provided a pretty clear answer.
By Ruthie Blum
Comedian Dave Chappelle may have crossed a line with recent anti-Semitic jokes, but his rejection of “woke” totalitarianism is a breath of fresh air.
By Ruthie Blum
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.
By Ruthie Blum
Though the Jewish state exhibits unity after most mass tragedies, the public’s response to the Lag B’Omer catastrophe is particularly noteworthy.
By Ruthie Blum
The mothers and fathers of IDF soldiers who committed suicide are unable to engage in the kind of collective mourning that characterizes Memorial Day.
By Ruthie Blum
The most that the staff of “Charlie Hebdo” will have to endure on the heels of the pathetic portrait of Queen Elizabeth is a slew of disgusted op-eds and social-media posts.
By Ruthie Blum
As the year winds down and a third near-standstill takes place, more than 100 Israeli medical experts took a welcome ax to conventional coronavirus wisdom.
By Ruthie Blum
Arad resident Aryeh Schiff shot a man stealing his car. Though he promptly called police and paramedics, he is now facing manslaughter charges.
By Ruthie Blum
It takes a special kind of vicious creativity to concoct a universe in which peace if forged by or with Israel, is evil
By Ruthie Blum
What Israel’s “Wonder Woman” ought to have learned by now is that the animosity she’s experiencing cannot be countered through appeasement.
By Ruthie Blum
This is not the first time that Ariel University has been targeted by left-wing academics who toe the Palestinian line.
By Ruthie Blum
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.
By Ruthie Blum
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.
By Ruthie Blum
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?”
By Ruthie Blum
While American conservatives consider COVID-19 restrictions an infringement on their freedom, Israelis of the same political bent believe that abiding by regulations is a civic duty.
By Ruthie Blum
There is a huge difference between rejecting a politician and debasing his supporters.
By Ruthie Blum
Suddenly, the discussion is no longer about the identity of the coronavirus carriers; no accusations are being flung at them for the way in which they choose to observe their Judaism.
By Ruthie Blum
Grasping the point of the question, which had to do with his much-touted close personal bond with Netanyahu, Trump concluded by saying, “Look, our relationship is with Israel.”
By Ruthie Blum
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.
By Ruthie Blum
Friedman said nothing controversial whatsoever about the West Bank, except in the eyes of those who consider any Israeli territorial or other claims illegitimate.
By Ruthie Blum
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.
By Ruthie Blum
Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs Matteo Salvini should know better than to expect his European compatriots to accept any comment that could be construed as offensive to Muslims.
By Ruthie Blum
While once admired by liberal U.S. Jews for being a tiny David confronted by an anti-Semitic Goliath—a little lady in need of her big man for survival—Israel has slowly been transforming into an uppity force to be reckoned with.
By Ruthie Blum
Without the prime minister’s persistence in exposing the extent of threat posed by the regime in Tehran, as well as his forging of alliances to combat it, Israelis would not have the luxury to laugh at his diagrams.
