Ruthie Blum
ARTICLES BY: Ruthie Blum
Antisemitic Cartoons on UNRWA Facebook Page Spur Watchdog to Demand Action From Ban Ki-moon
An outcry erupted Monday when antisemitic cartoons appeared on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Facebook...
Get Ready for Jihad, Iran-Style
The new twist in the controversy surrounding the nuclear agreement is an argument over the veracity of a report on a side deal giving Iran...
Report: Oprah Winfrey Shunned BDS Activists Demanding Meeting Over Leviev Diamonds
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey was among this month’s targets of BDS pressure, the New York Post reported on Sunday. But the TV network owner, best...
Nuclear Deal Delusions
Two pieces published on Monday illustrate the depth of the cognitive dissonance with which Western liberals are afflicted in relation to the nuclear agreement with...
Fiamma Nirenstein’s Loyalty
This week's announcement that Fiamma Nirenstein was being appointed Israeli ambassador to Italy made waves on both sides of the Mediterranean. Nobody is better suited than...
Black and White and Read in Farsi
In 1978, the revolution inspired by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was brewing in Iran. The goal was to topple Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and replace...
Pride and Prejudice
On Thursday, as Jerusalem prepared for the Gay Pride Parade by cordoning off main thoroughfares and hanging rainbow flags across the city, 39-year-old Yishai Schlissel...
When Invoking WWII is Appropriate
There is good reason to refrain from bandying about the word "Holocaust" with abandon. The defining atrocity of the 20th century has to be given...
Eyes Wide Shut
On Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spent more than four hours trying to defend the nuclear deal before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee....
A Deal With the Devil
On Tuesday, following the announcement that the P5+1 countries (the U.S., the U.K., France, China, Russia and Germany) had finally reached an agreement with Iran...
Inciting Iranian Youth
On June 27, right before the previous deadline determined by the P5+1 powers and the Islamic Republic of Iran to reach a nuclear deal, the...
Deadlines, Red Lines
The deadline for a nuclear deal between the P5+1 powers and Iran was extended on Tuesday, when too many bones of contention remained unresolved on...
A Damning Indictment
The United Nations Human Rights Council report on last summer's war in Gaza was released Monday. In anticipation of the report, whose findings were a...
Michael Oren’s Questionable Conclusion
Even before MK Michael Oren's book Ally is officially released, it is already causing the kind of buzz that best-sellers are made of. And with...
