Obama’s anti-Semitism/anti-Zionism reigned at the IRS from 2010- 2017.

by Guest Mon Feb 05, 2018 4:30 pm

How one courageous proactive journalist took on the IRS over this issue - and won.

After a “long, lonely and expensive seven year struggle,” one that she alone, on behalf of Z STREET bore, Lori Lowenthal Marcus, the founder of Z STREET has just won a significant legal victory which grants her organization tax-exempt status and definitively exposes Obama’s IRS as obsessively anti-Israel.

There was a repeated effort during the Obama administration to bar organizations that support Judea and Samaria from being eligible for tax-exempt status.
Ironically, Marcus founded Z STREET in 2009 in order to “educate Americans about the Middle East and Israel’s defense against terror.”

The Z Street application was at first delayed, then frozen, because the IRS claimed as a defense, that Israel was viewed as a “terrorist entity,” and a country “with terrorism.”

Many of us suspected that Obama’s administration had politicized Homeland Security, the DOJ, the FBI, and the American relationship to the United Nations in ways that favored Islamism, Islamic terrorism, Palestine, Iran, and that demonized Zionism and Israel’s attempts at self-defense.

Z STREET”s successful lawsuit exposes how the Obama administration, through its power to grant or withhold tax-exempt status to groups, politicized and corrupted a policy of even-handedness, transparency, and accountability at the IRS.

Like the Western media, professoriate, international organizations, and very much like an Islamic world view, the American IRS viewed Israel, especially Israelis who lived “across the Green Line—the nonborder that delineates pre-1967 Israel from the territories it acquired in the Six Day War” as related to “terrorism” or as “terrorists.”

According to Marcus, "Our own investigation disclosed that between 2009 and 2016, while Z STREET’s application was stalled, the IRS needed no special scrutiny to grant numerous applications for tax-exempt status that explicitly proclaimed donations would be spent in Gaza—a territory formally under the jurisdiction of Hamas, which the U.S. State Department designates as a terror organization."

According to Marcus, in a personal interview, the following is merely a sampling of not-for-profits, which she obtained via Guidestar; the IRS had okayed these “charities” during the period that Z STREET’s application remained pending.

American Charities for Palestine
Institute for Palestine Studies USA Inc
Teach for Palestine
Palestine Foundation Inc.
The Israel Palestine Project
Opportunity Palestine
Palestine Advocacy Project
Physicians for Palestine Inc.
Coloradans for Justice in Palestine
Embrace the Children of Palestine Inc.
Just Peace for Israel Palestine
Justice for Palestine-Israel Inc.
Opportunity Palestine
Palestine in America inc. NFP
Joining Hands for Justine [sic] in Palestine Israel Inc.
Land of Canaan Foundation Inc.
Peace of Palos Hills
PAL Craftaid
United Muslim Relief UMR
Karamausa Inc.
AJP Educational Foundation Inc.
Friends of Al-Rowwad USA Inc.
Holy Land Missions
Project Unified Assistance
Gaza's Hope
Project Unified Assistance
Palestinian American Medical Association
Now we have further documentation of Obama’s official anti-Semitism/anti-Zionism and its reign at the IRS between 2010 and 2017.

The mainstream or leftstream and liberal media barely covered this lawsuit. The Wall Street Journal and FOX did.

One 2010 article in Politico found the right kind of Jew, former IRS Commissioner, Sheldon Cohen who said, "he was skeptical of Z Street's motives in its high-profile lawsuit, rather than pursuing its concerns in tax court. 'They were hardly into the process when they screamed rape – nobody lifted the dress yet,' he said, noting that 501(c)3 groups can't advocate for political positions.

Seven years is a long time to be unable to raise funding for educational purposes; it is also a long time in which to launch and maintain a self-defensive lawsuit, one which was immediately punished by the IRS which then froze the Z STREET application. Seven years is a long time to experience the absence of Jewish-American organizational support; the turned backs of Jewish philanthropists is another kind of sorrow and challenge.

Marcus is a hero.Her website is here. Her summary of the Consent Order is here.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/21654