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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.)

U.S. President Joe Biden talks to members of the press in the State Dining Room of the White House on March 2, 2021. Credit: Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz.
Opinion
Biden’s ‘Nine-Miles-Wide Plan’
What should American Jews do? Turn to all our tried-and-true methods of lobbying and protest. And do it now—while there is still time.
Mar. 22, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinian Authority seventh-grade social-studies textbook, Part A, published August 2017. Credit: PMW.
Opinion
Searching for new ways to fund a terrorist regime
The United States doesn’t finance schools in Iran or North Korea. So why should it pay for those under the Palestinian Authority, which not only sponsors terrorists but spreads some of the most vicious anti-American propaganda in the world?
Mar. 15, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
Israel's Minister of Labor Golda Meir at the first session of the third government, Oct. 11, 1951. Credit: Israel Government Press Office via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
‘New York Times’ covers up for a terrorist—and smears Golda for good measure
It’s a case of journalistic malpractice and requires an apology.
Mar. 8, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
The New York Times building in New York City. Credit: Serge Attal/Flash90.
Opinion
The ‘pressure-Israel’ machine kicks into high gear
For several weeks now, various editors, journalists and pundits have been busily manufacturing a mini-crisis, presumably in order to provoke tension between the American and Israeli governments.
Feb. 22, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
Union for Reform Judaism President Rabbi Rick Jacobs speaks at the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly. Credit: Robert A. Cumins/JFNA.
Featured Columnist
Reform movement denounces its own ‘West Bank settlers’
Some of Tzur Hadassah’s residents are in a pickle: Either they accept the apartheid-like implications of the Union for Reform Judaism’s position—by refusing to drive on certain roads, ride on certain buses or buy houses on certain streets—or they risk being denounced by their own religious leaders.
Feb. 16, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, on Oct. 28, 2015. Credit: UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré.
Opinion
Biden urges democracy abroad, but will it apply to Palestinians?
His strong words about human rights were welcome. Now we’ll see if he means them when it comes to one of the main offenders.
Feb. 8, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House. Jan. 28, 2021. Source: U.S. President Joe Biden/Facebook.
Opinion
Biden returns to immoral equivalency
Halting incitement and stopping policies that incentivize terrorism are not “good ideas” or “confidence-building measures.” They are the P.A.’s signed, sworn obligations.
Feb. 3, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
Ahlam Tamimi
Opinion
Pardon for a terrorist?
If the Jordanian government is claiming that its constitution forbids extraditing Ahlam Tamimi, then it has to be claiming that the Sbarro pizza massacre in Jerusalem was a “political” crime.
Jan. 18, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
Dennis Ross
Opinion
Dennis Ross is the wrong choice for ambassador to Israel
During his career in Middle Eastern foreign policy, he’s made mistakes that have had life-and-death consequences for Israel.
Dec. 21, 2020
Stephen M. Flatow
Then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden with Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, March 9, 2016. Credit: Flash90.
Opinion
Don’t let the Palestinians fool Israel twice
The think-tank crowd wants the one Jewish state on the planet to hand over even more territory in exchange for the Palestinian Authority making the same worthless promises.
Dec. 8, 2020
Stephen M. Flatow
Mahmoud Abbas
Featured Columnist
Will Biden tolerate ‘pay for slay?’
Through whatever financial or other pressure is available, we need to force the Palestinian Authority to stop paying terrorists, stop naming schools and streets after terrorists, and stop using their media to portray terrorists as heroes.
Nov. 30, 2020
Stephen M. Flatow
Thomas L. Friedman
Opinion
Thomas Friedman lectures about lying
The problem is that the columnist himself seems to disagree with his own words.
Nov. 16, 2020
Stephen M. Flatow
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