יום שני, י״ד תמוז תשפ״וMonday, June 29, 2026
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Stephen M. Flatow is an attorney and the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995. He is author of A Father’s Story: My Fight for Justice Against Iranian Terror and is the president of the Religious Zionists of America-Mizrachi.
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Israel is not an idea I support from a safe distance. It is part of my life and my family’s story.
American Jews did not respond to that freedom by standing apart from the country. They helped build it.
There’s a classic definition, often attributed to Leo Rosten: chutzpah is the man who kills his parents and then pleads for mercy because he’s an orphan. Extreme, yes – but the structure holds.
A celebrity video that reassures – and misleads – New York’s Jewish community.
For decades, Britain opened its doors to mass migration from Muslim-majority countries. Many of these immigrants have become part of the national fabric, however, successive governments refused to build an integration strategy. Instead, they embraced a shallow multiculturalism, encouraging communities to live side by side, rather than together.
The gartel is serious business, but also a reminder that even in the most disciplined practices, there’s room for personality, preference, and humor.
From the moment G-d spoke at Sinai, the Jewish people have been listeners, readers, and scribes. The Torah isn’t just a story – it’s a constitution.
Moisture for crops and vegetation? No problem; we had dew every morning. Water to drink for man and beast? No reliance on oases for us, we had be’erah shel Miriam. And so it went for 40 years.
In the age of rising antisemitism, when many young Jews feel fear, confusion or alienation, there are still those who choose action, belonging and sacrifice.
In essence, the cases are not about the actual terror attacks, apparently all are in agreement that the PLO and PA bear responsibility, but about the legality of bringing terror’s sponsors and supporters before U.S. courts. And there lies the rub.
To me, the best part of beis din is that it allows us to not have to air our laundry in civil courts...
Prisoner releases are a terror victim’s nightmare.
Interestingly, except for the usual suspects who deny Israel’s right to self-defense in the face of thousands of rocket, missile and drone attacks from Hezbollah, I have to admit to being a bit surprised by U.S. comments on Nasrallah’s assassination.
Now, wouldn’t you suppose that those who are concerned about teenage Arab terrorists would be at least equally concerned about teenage Jewish victims of Arab terrorism? After all, caring about children from just one ethnic group and not another would be, well, racist.
If a racist government in the United States expelled African-Americans from some neighborhood, would it be reasonable for their white neighbors to just move in and take over their homes? Of course not. That’s called squatting.
To acknowledge the truth is to admit that it never gave up terrorism and that creating a Palestinian state won't bring peace.
So what are the real reasons for Palestinian Arab terrorism?
A new poll has found that the overwhelming majority of Palestinian Authority Arabs support terrorism against Israel and regard terrorists as heroes. The question is why—and the answer is easy to find.
Nothing could make clearer the danger of creating a Palestinian state.
Achieving real peace with the Palestinian Arabs is so remote, not because of settlements or borders. It has everything to do with the widespread and deeply held attitudes that permeate the Palestinian Arab community.
It’s deeply disturbing, but profoundly necessary, to reflect on the specific circumstances of the attack because of what they can teach us.
The current U.S. administration does not want to be forced to either criticize the Palestinian Authority, something it is loath to do.
The New York Times has to bury the accords, because if it didn’t, it would have to admit that they failed.
147 Americans have been killed by Palestinian terrorists since 1968, but not one of the killers has stood before a U.S. court.
The ‘cycle of violence’ lie won’t work this time, so watch the Palestinians’ supporters try to quickly change the subject.
Archeologists have turned up yet more evidence of the Jewish presence in the Holy Land.
Diplomats and ex-diplomats have long demanded one-sided concessions from Israel that endanger its security.
The opening words of Oslo I (signed in 1993) require the Palestinian leadership to "put an end to decades of confrontation and conflict."
NY Times’ columnist believes it is his mission to heckle and harass the Israelis until they give in to Arab demands.
Palestinian Arabs have responded to Prime Minister Lapid’s offer of statehood with bullets, bombs and bloodshed.
Even the party’s own officials admit that the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades is its “military arm.”
The White House denies that Palestinian NGOs are connected to terrorism despite a mountain of evidence.
“Black September” was a fiction—so says the U.S. State Department.
It has been indisputably clear from day one who the guilty parties are.
The Palestinian Authority worships the terrorist who murdered Gail Rubin in the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre.
It seems that no matter what the Palestinian Authority says or does—no matter how viciously its representatives denounce America—the money to it keeps flowing.
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) reversed course and announced that he officially withdrew support for the Israel Relations Normalization Act.
The fact that media outlets and advocacy groups employ essentially the same language is evidence of a mindset—the mindset of partisans who want to present a certain perspective, which they hope will influence public opinion.
Harris got the headline she wanted — the one she hopes will diffuse the controversy. The Jewish community will read that she "strongly disagrees" with the genocide slur. But the truth is that the VP has taken a bad situation and made it worse.
The Jerusalem Declaration’s extremely narrow wording effectively excuses most anti-Israel vitriol as being just “criticism of Israeli policies.”
Palestinian Arab murders of people of color in Israel is a subject you won’t hear very much about.
There is no legal, historic or religious basis for the Zionist left’s campaign to stop Jews from buying land in Judea and Samaria.
What should American Jews do? Turn to all our tried-and-true methods of lobbying and protest. And do it now—while there is still time.
To this day, the PFLP is on the official U.S. list of terrorist groups. But for some reason, that hasn’t stopped the Biden administration from planning to resume U.S. financial assistance to the PA – even though the PFLP remains the PA’s second largest faction.
The United States doesn’t finance schools in Iran or North Korea. So why should it pay for those under the Palestinian Authority, which not only sponsors terrorists but spreads some of the most vicious anti-American propaganda in the world?
Since when is "women's rights activism" a crime? Would Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir — herself the living embodiment of advocacy of women's rights — have authorized the deportation of a Palestinian woman for being a women's rights activist?
Of course, if Israel had made several hundred Palestinian Arabs homeless, the usual suspects would howl.
It’s interesting how, on many other occasions, major Jewish organizations have had no trouble identifying and denouncing such statements as bigotry.
During his career in Middle Eastern foreign policy, he’s made mistakes that have had life-and-death consequences for Israel.
Erakat’s repeated Twitter refrain was “two states 1967 borders.” Was he being nuanced? Was he inviting a reply from Israelis? No, that was simply his position.
The mikvah was the latest in a series of discoveries in Israel during the past year, each of which contradicted the Arab propaganda narrative.
Does the level of the Kinneret have anything to do with the prospects for peace in the Middle East? He’d like you to think that it does.
They’re mad at their parents for being pro-Israel, so they take it out on the rest of us, battering the Jewish world with their incessant whining.
The organization is making outlandish comparisons to a day of ancient Jewish mourning and trying to distract from the facts on the ground.
Having now made aliyah, I look at what’s happening in America from afar and feel sad for it.
Yoffie says American Jews all agree with him in opposing annexation. Maybe he’s right. Maybe he’s wrong. The only way to know is to take a poll.
Do you still consider Palestinian leadership to be “moderate”?
What we need from our organizations, from left to right, is genuine sympathy for a terror victim, and the courage to tell the truth about Palestinian Arab behavior.
The international reactions to the massacre were so predictable that you could guess what they were without reading the rest of this article.
Talk about tone-deaf! Completely oblivious to the suffering of American citizens, J Street’s top priority is to give American money to two of the most vicious America-hating regimes in the world.
An American citizen had never before attempted to hold a foreign country responsible for the murder of his child. Although we believed we would win our case, we had no idea if the judgewould award damages or give us any other type of relief.
Honoring Abdullah only reinforces his perception that there will be no consequences for his anti-Israel actions – that Jews will keep praising him no matter what. He needs to hear the opposite.
Why, then, has Schumer, who has called himself "a guardian of Israel," reversed himself and agreed to be a featured speaker at the upcoming J Street conference?
Thanks to the high rate of intermarriage, American Jews with children of marriageable age are faced with the crazy situation of seeing their children date a boy named Josh Cohen who is not halachically Jewish and a girl named Rachel Napolitano who is halachically Jewish.
Why isn’t there outrage when a senator proposes giving a government grant to Palestinian Arab schools that feature a blatantly anti-Semitic curriculum?
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.
A Palestinian state would be as corrupt and authoritarian as all the other regimes governing the Arab world – and that news might impede the crusade to create “Palestine.”
The heart of the problem, is not this one cartoon, The problem is that the mainstream American left – including many on the Jewish left – have chosen to turn a blind eye to anti-Semitism
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).
Last year, the Trump administration unsealed an indictment against Tamimi. Yet it still has taken no steps to invoke the U.S.-Jordanian extradition treaty and demand that King Abdullah hand her over. The Jordanians claim the treaty is not operative. That’s a lie.
The Trump plan includes the U.S. and others pumping billions of dollars into the corrupt terrorist Palestinian Authority regime and the Palestinian state that the plan reportedly will propose to establish. Talk about throwing good money after bad! Trump should learn from its predecessors’ mistakes, not repeat them.
And so long as no Trump administration official will explicitly say that the plan will not involve creating a Palestinian state, there is good reason to fear that it will, in fact, involve exactly that.
Why in the world would Israel expose its citizens to potential dangers on its roads?
I’m glad that J Street has once again changed its position and now admits that Hamas is a terrorist group, even if it had to be dragged kicking and screaming to acknowledge that obvious reality. Will they change again?
How were messages carried from the Hamas leadership in Gaza to its terrorists in the P.A. areas? In two ways, the Shin Bet discovered: “by Palestinians traveling from the coastal enclave to hospitals in Israel” and by “Gazan businessmen with permits allowing them to travel to the West Bank.”
Dennis Ross, Aaron Miller, Daniel Kurtzer, Martin Indyk and David Makovsky were all complete failures at “peace processing,” yet now they have full-time jobs at think tanks and on well-paid speaking tours where they berate Israel for not making enough concessions. In any other field, a track record of decades of failure would disqualify such a person from posing as an expert. But for these gentlemen, haranguing Israel has become a lucrative and never-ending profession.
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.
You might think feminists would be outraged that Vogue and other publications are interested in Tamimi primarily because of her physical appearance but hypocrites do engage in hypocrisy – so principles are tossed aside as militant feminists become cheerleaders for the Palestinian cause. They want the Palestinians to be in vogue, and in Vogue. And this month, one is.
The name of this village of terrorists is Kobar. Its main export is terrorists It’s the home town of the terrorist who stabbed three Jews to death at their Shabbat dinner table; a group from the village stoned several dozen Jewish hikers happened to pass near the town
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.
Apparently, in J Street’s view, giving $500 million of American taxpayers’ money each year to the Palestinian Authority-- a corrupt, misogynist, dissident-torturing, terrorism-sponsoring, fascist dictatorship--is the eleventh commandment engraved on the tablets Moses brought down from Sinai.
Reminding the American public who killed Sen. Robert Kennedy, and why, raises questions about the legitimacy of the Palestinian cause.
Who is this extraordinary despot who captures the hearts of American journalists and the president alike? Why, it’s King Abdullah of Jordan, of course.
There’s a certain contempt that’s implicit in presuming to enlighten other people as to what they should care about and what is in their best interests.
It’s easy to see why the Palestinian Authority would have been offended by Prince Charles’ visit to his relatives’ graves in 2016—and why they will be unhappy if Prince William wants to do likewise.
The Qatari government sponsor the murder of Jews and outrageous propaganda against Israel. It mustn't be rewarded with meetings with Jewish officials, visits by Jews, and articles by Jews claiming that Qatar might be changing.
Abbas’s Holocaust speech ignited international condemnations. Abbas’s honoring of terrorists, in contrast, was received with a collective yawn from governments, journalists, and Jewish organizations alike.
If mobs of firebomb-throwing foreigners were trying to storm across one of America’s borders, I doubt she would lecture our border guards to “exercise restraint.” There’s no justification for giving such advice to America’s ally.
In another form of Israel-bashing, the foreign minister of Sweden attempts to justify huge amounts of aid to the Palestinian Authority by saying the money is needed to feed “starving Palestinian children.” In reality, some of the money gets channeled for terror operations, while the kids have enough on their plates.
Of the 35 most prominent leaders of American Jewish groups. Twelve of them have been in power for more than 30 years – since the days of the Carter or Reagan administrations. Twenty-four of them have held their positions for more than 20 years.
Nine miles wide. It would take an Arab-tank column a matter of minutes to cut Israel in two.
6 months after Jewish leaders began trooping off to Qatar, the op-ed columns of US Jewish and Israeli publications remain filled with lively discussions on the affair. And well they should be. Because this sordid episode has laid bare patterns of behavior among some Jewish leaders that need changing.
The Palestinian Authority leadership promised, in the Oslo accords, to disband all terrorist groups, seize their weapons, and outlaw them – in short, to put them out of business. How can it be that, 23 years after the PA took over sole control of Bethlehem, Islamic Jihad still has active terrorist cells in and around the city?
Recently, Pres. Trump has repeatedly indicated he intends to pressure Israel to make yet more concessions to the Palestinian Authority. I wonder why pro-Israel voices have not been expressing concern about this development.
Once again, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman has spoken simple words of truth, and once again he’s under attack from the Palestinian Authority and the Jewish left.
The authorized establishment of the town of “Rachelim” came in memoriam to Rachel Imeinu and to two martyred 'Rachels,' Rachel Drouk and Rachel Weiss who were murdered for the sin of "DWJ'-driving while Jewish.
The notion that Jewish critics of Qatar are the ones who have turned it into an enemy is outrageous.
Ever wonder why polls consistently show that a large portion of the Israeli public supports creating a Palestinian state?
Rav Shevach’s senseless murder will not change anything for Palestinian Arabs, who praised it, other than lead to more death; the terrorist who murdered him has already been found and, in the IDF’s lexicon, “neutralized.” The residents of the Balata refugee camp will continue to be “refugees” under the thumb of the PA with the help of the United Nations.
And who is paying for this Arab attempt to strangle Jerusalem and illegally occupy large parts of the historic Jewish homeland? “It’s funded mainly by the EU and Qatar,”
June 26, 2026 
