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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.)

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah, May 7, 2020. Credit: Flash90.
Opinion
Palestinian COVID conspiracy theories do matter
The reason this insanity matters is that if a Palestinian Arab state is created next to Israel, its leadership, public opinion and popular culture will be saturated with these beliefs.
Dec. 28, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinians receive cash as part of $480 million in aid allocated by Qatar, at a post office in Gaza City on May 19, 2019. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Opinion
Once again, Qatar saves Hamas
It already underwrites the power plant in the Gaza Strip and sends financial aid to 100,000 Palestinian residents there every month through a U.N. voucher system. In fact, it pretty much props up the entire mini-terror state.
Dec. 6, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
Fadi Abu Shkhaydam, seen here delivering a sermon in 2020, killed one Israeli and wounded four others in Jerusalem's Old City on Nov. 21, 2021, before being shot and killed by Israeli security forces. Credit: MEMRI.
Opinion
Just don’t call him a terrorist
The fact that media outlets and advocacy groups employ essentially the same language is evidence of a mindset—the mindset of partisans who want to present a certain perspective, which they hope will influence public opinion.
Nov. 29, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Credit: JCPA.
Opinion
Why the Palestinian Authority won’t fight terrorists
As far as they’re concerned, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine are their brothers. And the Israelis are their enemies, peace agreement or no peace agreement.
Nov. 18, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
Construction works in Efrat in Judea and Samaria, Oct. 25, 2021. Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90.
Opinion
J Street and ‘New York Times’ revise the English language
What is a “settlement unit”? You mean, an apartment.
Nov. 2, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. Credit: Drop of Light/Shutterstock.
Opinion
Qatar and the Jews: The scandal that just won’t go away
Jewish leaders who visited the country defended their trips by claiming it was becoming more moderate. But the Qataris’ own statements and actions in the months to follow kept blowing up that statement.
Oct. 18, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks virtually at the National Bar Association, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House. Credit: Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson.
Opinion
Kamala’s non-denial ‘denial’ on Israel and genocide
The vice president should have rebuked the student’s libel on the spot.
Oct. 4, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
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.
Sept. 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.
July 19, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
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