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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.)

Brandeis University
Opinion
Brandeis should pick somebody else to brag about
The idea of the “Israel lobby” and the Israeli government paying and controlling Congress has been condemned by Jewish groups across the board as antisemitism.
Jun. 5, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
Rockets are fired from Gaza towards Israel, May 10, 2023. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90.
Opinion
Rockets in Judea and Samaria are a game-changer
Nothing could make clearer the danger of creating a Palestinian state.
May. 30, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
Homesh
Opinion
I’m deeply troubled that the State Department is deeply troubled
Dismantling Homesh was not required by Oslo, and rebuilding Homesh is not prohibited by Oslo.
May. 22, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
American Jewish historian Deborah Lipstadt. Source: YouTube.
Opinion
This is a case for the US antisemitism envoy
Deborah Lipstadt, where are you?
May. 16, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
A plaque in front of the Israeli athletes' quarters commemorates the victims of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. The inscription, in German and Hebrew, reads: “The team of the State of Israel lived in this building during the 20th Olympic Summer Games from 21 August to 5 September 1972. On 5 September, [list of victims] died a violent death. Honor to their memory.” Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Featured Columnist
Will the Munich panel acknowledge the role of Abbas?
In 1972, the year of the Olympics massacre, Yasser Arafat headed the Fatah terrorist organization, and Mahmoud Abbas—the current head of both Fatah and the Palestinian Authority—was his right-hand man.
May. 8, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
A Palestinian youth launches rocks at Israeli security forces during a protest in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near the West Bank city of Nablus on March 13, 2021. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
Opinion
Another deadly rock-throwing attack in the Midwest, not the Mideast
When it happens in America, it’s serious business. When it happens in Israel, critics and the media pretend that the violence is the work of “only a few extremists.”
May. 1, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
Al-Quds University. Credit: Rahma Deek via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Harvard insults terror victims
No American university should be building ties to a Palestinian Arab institution that glorifies terrorism, including terrorists who have murdered American citizens.
Apr. 24, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
An Israel Air Force Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules, June 25, 2015. Photo by Ofer Zidon/Flash90.
Opinion
This is how they’ll shoot down Israel’s planes
Those who advocate creating a Palestinian state always speak in generalities. What it means is that Israel will be just nine miles wide at its midsection
Apr. 17, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
Family and friends carry the bodies of sisters Maia and Rina Dee, killed in a terror attack in the Jordan Valley on April 7, during their funeral at the Gush Etzion Regional Cemetery in Kfar Etzion on April 9, 2023. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
Featured Columnist
The Palestinians’ war on women rages on
It’s deeply disturbing, but profoundly necessary, to reflect on the specific circumstances of the attack because of what they can teach us.
Apr. 10, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinians take part in a rally organized by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Gaza City, Aug, 31, 2019. Photo by Hassan Jedi/Flash90.
Opinion
Biden’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy regarding terror
The current U.S. administration does not want to be forced to either criticize the Palestinian Authority, something it is loath to do.
Apr. 5, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinians, many of them armed, attend a funeral of 16-year-old Muntasir al-Shawa, who was killed during clashes with Israeli security forces in the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus, Feb. 21, 2023. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
Opinion
What the Palestinian terrorist’s mother told him …
Instead of trying to discourage her 16-year-old son from becoming a killer, she actually urged him to undertake religious preparations that would—in her view—spiritually enhance his murderous activities.
Mar. 27, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
The smashed back window of a car driven by German tourists, attacked by Palestinian youth in Nablus in the West Bank on March 18, 2023. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
Featured Columnist
Being the right or wrong color in Nablus
A mob of Palestinian Arabs hurled potentially lethal rocks at German tourists in a car bearing a yellow license plate, assuming they were Israeli Jews.
Mar. 20, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
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