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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.)

Americans for Peace Now logo. Source: Americans for Peace Now/Facebook.
Opinion
Peace Now attacks the Conference of Presidents
The American group is calling large parts of Jerusalem illegally occupied territory—and going after the Conference for not doing likewise.
Sep. 24, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
U.S. President Joe Biden with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on Aug. 27, 2021. Source: Embassy of Israel/Twitter.
Opinion
Rescuing Biden from Afghanistan
The think-tank crowd and Jewish former officials of the State Department are desperately trying to undercut the notion that the U.S. debacle demonstrates American unreliability where Israel is concerned.
Aug. 30, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
Abba Eban in 1969. Credit: Fritz Cohen.
Opinion
What exactly are ‘Auschwitz borders’?
Longtime Israeli statesman Abba Eban made no bones about what would happen if Arab forces overran the nine-mile-wide coastal plain he was referring to.
Aug. 17, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
Ben & Jerry's berry sorbet on a chocolate-almond cone. Credit: Kate33/Shutterstock.
Opinion
Ice-cream anti-Semitism
We need to stop pretending that the Ben & Jerry’s argument is over a handful of wild-eyed “settlers” on remote hilltops. This is a fight over boycotting the Western Wall.
Aug. 2, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinian protesters wave flags during a protest in Bethlehem against the U.S. decision to cut U.N. aid to Palestinians if the funds don’t stop going to support terrorists and their families, on Sept. 26, 2018. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90.
Opinion
Poverty doesn’t cause Arab terrorism
The main cause of terrorism is ideology. That’s hard for Americans to comprehend because it’s so different from our own experience.
Jul. 19, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
Credit: Andrii Koval/Shutterstock.
Opinion
American Jews know anti-Semitism when they see it
The Jerusalem Declaration’s extremely narrow wording effectively excuses most anti-Israel vitriol as being just “criticism of Israeli policies.”
Jun. 21, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mich.) responds to attacks on her so-called “dual loyalty” to the United States, even as she accused American Jews of the same towards Israel, July 2019. Source: YouTube.
Opinion
Ilhan Omar and the art of not apologizing
This time, she responded to her critics with the feigned: “I didn’t say it. You misinterpreted me. And also, you’re a bunch of racists.”
Jun. 14, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni during a visit at the Barzilai Medical Center, Ashkelon, Israel, on Dec. 28, 2009. Credit: Itzik Edri via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Tzipi Livni flunks history
Seventy-five years? Try 99. It was in 1922 that Palestine was divided—actually divided, not just proposed, as the United Nations did in 1947.
Jun. 1, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
Friends and family mourn at the funeral of Yehuda Guetta, who was hurt in a terror attack at Tapuach Junction and later passed away from his injuries, in Jerusalem on May 6, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
A disaster for J Street?
It’s as if certain media outlets form a kind of protective cordon around Jewish critics of Israel in order to ensure that they are not asked difficult or embarrassing questions.
May. 10, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
The city of Ma’ale Adumim, located four miles from Jerusalem’s municipal boundary. Credit: David Mosberg via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Dealing a blow to Zionism
There is no legal, historic or religious basis for the Zionist left’s campaign to stop Jews from buying land in Judea and Samaria.
Apr. 26, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami addressing the 2019 J Street National Conference in Washington. Source: J Street/Flickr.
Opinion
What is it with J Street and anti-Semites?
I don’t pretend to know what goes on inside the heads of Jews so committed to bullying Israel that they will honor and even defend individuals who have made anti-Semitic remarks, as long as those individuals further the cause of undermining Israel.
Apr. 15, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken delivers remarks virtually at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Board Meeting, from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on March 31, 2021. Credit: U.S. State Department Photo by Freddie Everett.
Opinion
Antony Blinken called the wrong guy
The U.S. secretary of state needs to be calling the Palestinian Authority to talk about its lack of democracy, not reflexively assume that Israel is somehow to blame for how the P.A. governs its people.
Apr. 5, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
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