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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.)

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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.”
June 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.”
June 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.
June 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.
April 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.
April 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.
April 5, 2021
Stephen M. Flatow
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.
March 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?
March 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.
March 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
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