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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.)

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh attends a groundbreaking ceremony for the Rafah Medical Complex in the southern Gaza Strip, Nov. 23, 2019. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Opinion
‘Experts’ perpetuate Mideast myths
For more than a century, people have been trying to pay the Palestinian Arabs to make peace with the Jews and pretend that some terrorist gangs were more “moderate” than other ones.
Jan. 7, 2020
Stephen M. Flatow
Tourists take pictures as a man gets a ride on a camel at the lookout of the Mount of Olives overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem on Oct. 11, 2018. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.
Opinion
J Street’s ‘war crimes’
The subject may come back to bite the organization with finger-pointing by the International Criminal Court regarding the presence of Jews in Jerusalem.
Jan. 3, 2020
Stephen M. Flatow
David Anderson. Source: ADL Center on Extremism.
Opinion
Give the Black Hebrew Israelites a state?
Nobody in his right mind would suggest doing so because we all know that lunatics who espouse anti-Semitic conspiracy theories sometimes put their anti-Semitism into practice.
Dec. 26, 2019
Stephen M. Flatow
Graffiti on the security wall that separates Israel from the West Bank. Credit: Marc Venezia via Wikimedia Commons.
Featured Columnist
Guess who’s leading your child’s tour of Israel?
An American University trip with the theme of “social justice” will offer a “dual-narrative immersive experience” that will feature “both the Israeli and Palestinian narratives.”
Dec. 19, 2019
Stephen M. Flatow
U.S. Congress. Credit: Pixabay.
Opinion
What those 107 Democrats got wrong
The letter claims that the new U.S. policy could “lead to a more entrenched conflict.” More entrenched than a 100-year-long Palestinian Arab war against Jews and the existence of a Jewish state?
Nov. 27, 2019
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting with journalists in the West Bank city of Ramallah on July 3, 2019. Photo by Flash90.
Opinion
The PFLP: Abbas’s dirty little secret
The entire premise of the Oslo accords and various “peace processes” that followed was that the Palestinian Arab leadership, headed by Yasser Arafat and his deputy, Mahmoud Abbas, had sincerely given up terrorism and the goal of destroying Israel.
Nov. 20, 2019
Stephen M. Flatow
Then-Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) speaks at the 2018 AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington. Credit: AIPAC.
Opinion
Sen. Schumer’s shocking reversal on J Street
Why has Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who has called himself “a guardian of Israel,” agreed to be a featured speaker for perhaps the most effective pro-Palestinian lobbying group in Washington?
Oct. 23, 2019
Stephen M. Flatow
The city of Ma’ale Adumim, located four miles from Jerusalem’s municipal boundary. Credit: David Mosberg via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
The ‘annexation’ scare
Israeli journalist Micah Goodman’s plan to “shrink the conflict” turns out to be just another plan to shrink Israel. There is no shortage of those plans around.
Oct. 7, 2019
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinian youths participate in the graduation ceremony for a military-style camp organized by the Hamas terror group in Gaza on Aug. 18, 2017. Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Opinion
Summer camp, a time for fun?
Young boys in Gaza go through military training, running obstacle courses and crawling under barbed wire with what appears to be live fire overhead, in addition to “campers” field-stripping rifles while blindfolded.
Aug. 12, 2019
Stephen M. Flatow
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Featured Columnist
Ten Jewish groups unite against Israeli democracy
The critics of Israel are able to set aside their petty personal differences in order to be more effective. Why can’t the defenders of Israel do likewise?
July 1, 2019
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, on Feb. 13, 2017. Photo by Flash90.
Opinion
When the ruling party threatens violence
On June 16, Fatah posted on its official Facebook page a large photo of a masked Palestinian about to throw a rock—that is, about to attempt to stone a Jew to death.
June 27, 2019
Stephen M. Flatow
Trump
Opinion
Is President Trump siding with J Street?
The illegal settlers in Khan al-Ahmar set up some tents and waited for sympathetic journalists and Jewish “peace” activists to go to bat for them, which didn’t take long.
June 19, 2019
Stephen M. Flatow
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