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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 Donald Trump meets with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Saudi Arabia, May 21, 2017. Credit: White House/Shealah Craighead.
Featured Columnist
No American weapons to anti-Semitic governments
At a time when the murders in Pittsburgh and Poway are still fresh in our memories, what kind of message does it send to supply a country like Qatar with military hardware?
June 12, 2019
Stephen M. Flatow
Israeli security forces and medics remove the body of a Palestinian man who stabbed two Israelis in the Old City of Jerusalem, on May 31, 2019. The attack occurred as Muslims marked the last Friday of the month of Ramadan. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
Palestinian stabs Israelis, and here come the excuses
A knife-wielding man entered Jerusalem on a permit to pray at Al-Aqsa. Maybe the Israelis do have a reason to scrutinize and restrict the foreign citizens who they allow to enter their capital city.
June 3, 2019
Stephen M. Flatow
Hanan Ashrawi moderates the first-ever Palestine Festival (PalFest) of Literature event in May 2008. Credit: Flickr/Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Hanan Ashrawi, friend of terror
Nobody is denying the PLO senior official access to the world’s media outlets. But America is under no obligation to open its doors to those who endorse and consort with terrorists.
May 21, 2019
Stephen M. Flatow
Cory Booker
Featured Columnist
Sen. Cory Booker needs a history lesson
He needs to understand that the idea of unconditionally creating a Palestinian state is a recent invention, and the idea that it is longstanding American policy is a falsehood ginned up by advocates for “Palestine.”
May 13, 2019
Stephen M. Flatow
Brandeis University
Opinion
Israel-haters at Brandeis
Hostility towards Jews was what brought Brandeis into existence. And now, hostility towards Jews has reared its ugly head at Brandeis itself.
May 8, 2019
Stephen M. Flatow
Washington D.C.'s historic Sixth and I synagogue. Credit: Sixth and I.
Opinion
Synagogue will mourn Palestinians, ignore Israeli Independence Day
I do not question the right of Sixth & I to do this. I question the wisdom and morality of their decision to publicly proclaim that Israel and the Palestinian Arabs are morally equivalent. They are not.
May 1, 2019
Stephen M. Flatow
Thousands of Palestinians attend a rally in Gaza City celebrating the 31st anniversary of Hamas on Dec. 16, 2018. Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Opinion
Poverty isn’t the cause of terrorism, so let’s stop blaming it
Myths die hard. But the evidence is overwhelming that poverty is not what causes Muslims—whether Sri Lankan or Palestinian—to become terrorists.
April 29, 2019
Stephen M. Flatow
View of the West Bank settlement of Havat Gilad, Jan. 10, 2018. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.
Opinion
ADL distorts the annexation debate
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu never called for the “annexation of the West Bank.” What he said was that he might propose extending Israeli law to Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.
April 22, 2019
Stephen M. Flatow
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to supporters at Likud Party headquarters in Tel Aviv on April 9, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
Failing at the ballot box, Jewish left lashes out
Election day in Israel has become a day of mourning for some critics of Israel.
April 16, 2019
Stephen M. Flatow
U.S. President Ronald Reagan speaking in Minneapolis on Feb. 8, 1982. Credit: Executive Office of the President of the United States.
Opinion
We need another Reagan plan for Israel
The former U.S. president understood that the demand to create a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria is a demand for creating a second Palestinian state (over and above Jordan).
April 11, 2019
Stephen M. Flatow
Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes addresses journalists on the foreign-policy priorities of the Obama administration, in particular a deal to hold Iran's nuclear program at bay, at the Foreign Press Center in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 29, 2014. Credit: U.S. State Department.
Opinion
Ben Rhodes is back for more Israel-bashing
Rhodes has harsh opinions about Israel. He seems proud that he helped trick the public into accepting the Iran nuclear deal. And he’s proud of his role in Obama’s policies towards Israel—in fact, he regrets that they weren’t harsher.
April 5, 2019
Stephen M. Flatow
James Zogby. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Another anti-Semite in the Democratic Party
James Zogby has gone so far as to implicitly praise Rep. Ilhan Omar’s statements about Jews, characterizing her remarks as “the discussion Omar’s courage has helped to open.”
April 1, 2019
Stephen M. Flatow
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