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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.)

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.
Sept. 28, 2018
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
More aid for anti-Semite Abbas?
Now that Abbas’s anti-Semitic tirade of several months ago has temporarily faded from the headlines, the Jewish ex-State Department crowd has returned to one of their favorite pastimes: demanding U.S. money for this lunatic.
Sept. 20, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting with members of the Central Committee in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Jan. 14, 2018. Credit: Photo by Flash90.
Opinion
Terror organizations not welcome in Washington
The shutdown of the PLO office was ordered just days before the 25th anniversary of the Oslo accords. The entire premise of those accords was that Yasser Arafat and the PLO had sincerely forsaken terrorism and were committed to living in peace with Israel.
Sept. 12, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
Israeli and Palestinian officers hold a field-situation assessment in preparation for Israel's 2005 disengagement from Gaza, Aug. 16, 2005. Credit: Israel Defense Forces.
Opinion
Mr. President: The Palestinians already got ‘their turn’
The Palestinian Authority still won’t fulfill its obligations in the Oslo Accords, such as disarming, outlawing and extraditing terrorists, or ending incitement. It won’t even negotiate with Israel.
Aug. 23, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
Sbarro Pizzeria Bombing 2001
Opinion
Trump gives the Palestinian Authority $61 million as it pays killers of Americans
Despite all the tough rhetoric from the Trump administration and some Jewish leaders, America is still providing funds to the regime that is paying murderers of Americans.
Aug. 14, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
Israeli border police clash with Palestinians in the village of Khobar near Ramallah in the West Bank on July 27, 2018. Photo by Flash90.
Featured Columnist
Yes, Israeli police should ask questions
The government of the Jewish state is not trying to suppress “any kind of inquiry,” but rather is grappling with the daily reality of Palestinian Arabs trying to stone, burn and shoot Jews to death.
Aug. 7, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
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