Ralph Schoenman was born in 1935, at United States of America. He is an American left-wing activist who was a personal secretary to Bertrand Russel. His books are The Hidden History of Zionism, Homage to Palestine, Iraq and Kuwait: A History Suppressed, Prisoners of Israel.

He (born 1935) is an American left-wing activist who was a personal secretary to Bertrand Russel and became general secretary of the Bertrand Russel Peace Foundation. Schoenman was educated at Princeton University, but then left the U.S. for Britain in 1958. He was involved in various protest activities during his student days and became active in the CND after arriving in Britain. This brought him into contact with Russell, for whom Schoenman began working in 1960. Bernard Lewis wrote critically of Schoenman's influence on the aged philosopher, painting Schoenman as partly responsible for Russell's virulent anti-Americanism, in contrast to his earlier pronouncements against Communism.

Since 2002, he has been working with documentary filmmaker, Mya Shone, providing commentary for radio stations in many parts of the United States and Canada, and producing the "Taking Aim" radio show, billed as "Uncompromising, fact intensive exposés of the hidden workings of a capitalist system addicted to permanent war". In about 2009 they moved from broadcasting over WBAI to an Internet webcast.