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Stephen M. Flatow

Stephen M. Flatow is president of the Religious Zionists of America. He is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995, and author of A Father’s Story: My Fight for Justice Against Iranian Terror. (The RZA is not affiliated with any American or Israeli political party.)

A Palestinian youth launches rocks at Israeli security forces during a protest in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near the West Bank city of Nablus on March 13, 2021. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
Opinion
Another deadly rock-throwing attack in the Midwest, not the Mideast
When it happens in America, it’s serious business. When it happens in Israel, critics and the media pretend that the violence is the work of “only a few extremists.”
May 1, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
Al-Quds University. Credit: Rahma Deek via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Harvard insults terror victims
No American university should be building ties to a Palestinian Arab institution that glorifies terrorism, including terrorists who have murdered American citizens.
April 24, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
An Israel Air Force Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules, June 25, 2015. Photo by Ofer Zidon/Flash90.
Opinion
This is how they’ll shoot down Israel’s planes
Those who advocate creating a Palestinian state always speak in generalities. What it means is that Israel will be just nine miles wide at its midsection
April 17, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
Family and friends carry the bodies of sisters Maia and Rina Dee, killed in a terror attack in the Jordan Valley on April 7, during their funeral at the Gush Etzion Regional Cemetery in Kfar Etzion on April 9, 2023. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
Featured Columnist
The Palestinians’ war on women rages on
It’s deeply disturbing, but profoundly necessary, to reflect on the specific circumstances of the attack because of what they can teach us.
April 10, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinians take part in a rally organized by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Gaza City, Aug, 31, 2019. Photo by Hassan Jedi/Flash90.
Opinion
Biden’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy regarding terror
The current U.S. administration does not want to be forced to either criticize the Palestinian Authority, something it is loath to do.
April 5, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinians, many of them armed, attend a funeral of 16-year-old Muntasir al-Shawa, who was killed during clashes with Israeli security forces in the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus, Feb. 21, 2023. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
Opinion
What the Palestinian terrorist’s mother told him …
Instead of trying to discourage her 16-year-old son from becoming a killer, she actually urged him to undertake religious preparations that would—in her view—spiritually enhance his murderous activities.
March 27, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
The smashed back window of a car driven by German tourists, attacked by Palestinian youth in Nablus in the West Bank on March 18, 2023. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
Featured Columnist
Being the right or wrong color in Nablus
A mob of Palestinian Arabs hurled potentially lethal rocks at German tourists in a car bearing a yellow license plate, assuming they were Israeli Jews.
March 20, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinians inspect the home of terrorist Muhammad Dar Yusuf in Kobar, Samaria, which the IDF demolished on Aug. 28, 2018. Dar Yusuf murdered 31-year-old Yotam Ovadia in the town of Adam. Credit: Flash90.
Opinion
A lesson for Israel, from Latvia
The country is donating automobiles of citizens who were arrested for drunk driving to embattled Ukraine.
March 16, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, U.S. President Bill Clinton and PLO head Yasser Arafat at the signing of the Oslo Accords, Sept. 13, 1993. Photo by Vince Musi/The White House.
Opinion
Why they won’t talk about the Oslo Accords
The New York Times has to bury the accords, because if it didn’t, it would have to admit that they failed.
March 13, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah, May 7, 2020. Credit: Flash90.
Opinion
Palestinian media calls for terrorism, and the world is silent
Where are the snarling comments when Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority declares “your blood will drip”?
March 9, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
Ahlam Tamimi
Opinion
The US does nothing about another American murdered by Palestinians
147 Americans have been killed by Palestinian terrorists since 1968, but not one of the killers has stood before a U.S. court.
Feb. 28, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
U.S. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Source: YouTube.
Opinion
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Israel’s anti-terror strategy
Perhaps Israel should remind the critics that its counter-terror operations are consistent with the wise counsel of the late Justice Ginsburg and her colleagues.
Feb. 26, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
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