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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.)

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid delivering his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 22, 2022. Credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO.
Opinion
This is what you get when you offer the Palestinians a state
Palestinian Arabs have responded to Prime Minister Lapid’s offer of statehood with bullets, bombs and bloodshed.
Oct. 16, 2022
Stephen M. Flatow
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid speaks before the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Sept. 22, 2022. Credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO.
Opinion
What Lapid said at the U.N. and how J Street changed it
The left-wing lobby whited out the prime minister’s assertion that a Palestinian state must not become a ‘terror base.’
Sept. 29, 2022
Stephen M. Flatow
Armed members of the Palestinian Fatah movement in the West Bank city of Nablus, July 27, 2020. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
Opinion
America must put Fatah on its list of terror groups
Even the party’s own officials admit that the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades is its “military arm.”
Sept. 18, 2022
Stephen M. Flatow
Jews pray at the Tomb of Samuel, northeast of Jerusalem, on Dec. 13, 2021. Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90.
Opinion
Covering up an attack on Jewish worshippers
In America, we have a word for those who oppose the presence of people in the neighborhood because of their religion or ethnicity: bigots.
Aug. 30, 2022
Stephen M. Flatow
Members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) take part in a military show in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip to celebrate the 47th anniversary of the group's founding, Dec. 11, 2014. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Opinion
Why does the Biden administration oppose Israel’s anti-terror actions?
The White House denies that Palestinian NGOs are connected to terrorism despite a mountain of evidence.
Aug. 21, 2022
Stephen M. Flatow
A plaque in front of the Israeli athletes' quarters commemorating the victims of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre reads, in German and Hebrew: “The team of the State of Israel lived in this building during the 20th Olympic Summer Games from 21 August to 5 September 1972. On 5 September, [list of victims] died a violent death. Honor to their memory.” Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Mahmoud Abbas and the Munich massacre: Time to face the truth
“Black September” was a fiction—so says the U.S. State Department.
Aug. 16, 2022
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinian Authority Youth Camp
Featured Columnist
Why Hillary Clinton called it ‘Palestinian child abuse’
At summer camps in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Palestinian Arab youths are being taught that all of Israel—Tel Aviv, Haifa, everything—is “occupied Palestine” and must be annihilated.
Aug. 3, 2022
Stephen M. Flatow
Security personnel at the scene of a stabbing attack on a bus near the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot, where a terrorist stabbed a 41-year old man with a screwdriver, July 19, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Featured Columnist
Riding the bus while Jewish
There’s something about an up-close act of violence that illustrates an attacker’s viciousness ... in this case, with a screwdriver.
July 20, 2022
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinians hold photo printouts during a rally in support of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank town of Tubas on Sept. 27, 2020. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
Opinion
There’s a need for gestures before Biden arrives
Just not the ones you think …
July 11, 2022
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinians visit the site where “Al Jazeera” journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in the West Bank city of Jenin, May 18, 2022. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
Opinion
The bullet that doesn’t matter
It has been indisputably clear from day one who the guilty parties are.
July 5, 2022
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinians hold posters showing Dalal Mughrabi, a terrorist involved in an infamous 1978 attack in which 35 Israelis were killed. Photo by Issam Rimawi/Flash 90.
Opinion
Will Biden visit Palestinian sites honoring the killer of his friend’s niece?
The Palestinian Authority worships the terrorist who murdered Gail Rubin in the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre.
June 27, 2022
Stephen M. Flatow
UNRWA Protests
Opinion
Biden to Palestinians: ‘Thank you, sir, may I have another?’
It seems that no matter what the Palestinian Authority says or does—no matter how viciously its representatives denounce America—the money to it keeps flowing.
June 21, 2022
Stephen M. Flatow
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