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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 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
Wait, that doesn’t make sense
If the Palestinian Authority is against terrorism, why do its leader and ruling party keep glorifying, sheltering and paying terrorists?
Jan. 30, 2019
Stephen M. Flatow
View of Route 4370, northeast of Jerusalem, which connects the Geva Binyamin area to Route 1, and separates vehicles of Israeli citizens and non-citizens, Jan. 10, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
The ‘apartheid’ wall that isn’t
Why in the world would Israel expose its citizens to potential dangers on its roads?
Jan. 14, 2019
Stephen M. Flatow
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Source: Prime Minister's Office via Twitter.
Featured Columnist
Australia redivides Jerusalem? Then demand justice for the Aborigines!
Some supporters of Israel think that they have to be grateful for whatever few crumbs the world throws our way. They think the Jews will look unreasonable unless they praise that which deserves no praise.
Dec. 17, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
Mandate for Palestine
Opinion
Another ‘New York Times’ columnist needs a history lesson
The Michelle Goldbergs of this world would have us believe that today’s conflict consists of Israel having a state in historic Palestine and preventing the Arabs from having one if their own.
Dec. 11, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
Marc Lamont Hill in 2008. Credit: Wayne Riley via Wikimedia Commons.
Featured Columnist
A whole country of Marc Lamont Hills
Palestinian children are not born hating Jews or dreaming of destroying Israel. It takes an entire village, an entire society, an entire governing regime to make them that way.
Dec. 5, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinians participate in a rally in Nablus marking the 30th anniversary of the founding of Hamas. Credit: Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
Opinion
Israel’s kindness is repaid with terror
Israel permits Arab residents of Gaza—enemy territory—special permits so that they can receive medical care in Israeli hospitals or to carry out business transactions in Israel, and they use those privileges to assist terror cells.
Nov. 27, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, during an official visit in Israel, Jan. 29, 2012. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
Ireland, Colombia and Israel: Not birds of a feather
The mindset among Western diplomats is rooted in the assumption that in the end, everything can be worked out through dialogue and some give-and-take.
Nov. 15, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
Opinion
J Street’s phony poll
More than three-fourths of American Jews want Israel to be reduced to just miles wide—narrower than Washington, D.C., or the Bronx. How can that be?
Nov. 9, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
Israeli ZAKA first responders at the site on Nov. 18, 2014, where two Palestinian terrorists entered the Kehilat Yaakov synagogue in the Jewish neighborhood of Har Nof, Jerusalem, with pistols and axes, and began attacking worshippers. Five rabbis and a Druze police officer were murdered. Credit: ZAKA. Spokesperson.
Opinion
The response to Pittsburgh: A contrast between societies
One cannot help but note the difference between how American society and its leaders responded to the Pittsburgh massacre, and how Palestinian society and its leaders responded to the Har Nof massacre.
Nov. 2, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
Lara Alqasem, 22, was denied entry to Israel for graduate work on Oct. 2, 2018, because of her active BDS involvement while a student at the University of Florida. Credit: Screenshot.
Opinion
America wouldn’t let her in, so why should Israel?
Alqasem is being denied entry not because of her “opinions” or what she “favors,” but because of her actions. She actively promotes the cause of those who murder Israelis.
Oct. 12, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 73rd session of the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 25, 2018, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Credit: Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian.
Featured Columnist
No, Mr. President, two states won’t ‘work best’
There may be no solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in our generation; not all international conflicts have one. But certainly whittling Israel down to nine miles wide is not the answer.
Oct. 8, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
Ahed Tamimi. Credit: Haim Schwarczenberg via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
I believe this Palestinian teenager
Ahed Tamimi supports assaulting Israeli soldiers and “throwing stones”—meaning, trying to stone Jews to death. She also respects “every type of resistance” in which Palestinians engage: knives, guns, bombs.
Sep. 28, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
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