Tel Aviv Diary: Ruthie Blum on Iran’s Shadow, Qatargate, and the New Face of American Antisemitism

Tel Aviv Diary Podcast · Jan 13, 2026 · 1h 3m

This week on Tel Aviv Diary, Marc Schulman sits down with Ruthie Blum—journalist, and commentator —for a wide-ranging conversation that begins with biography and ends in the fog of history-in-the-making. Schulman and Bloom first met as on-air foils on i24News—“the right-wing woman” and “the left-wing man,” as Bloom puts it—but their discussion quickly shows how much the political map has shifted, and how often today’s arguments scramble old labels. What emerges is not a debate for sport, but a candid conversation between two people who disagree on some fundamentals, yet share a sense that the…