{"id":22852,"date":"2010-08-26T09:32:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T17:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22852"},"modified":"2010-08-26T09:32:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T17:32:48","slug":"pro-israel-group-battles-irs-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22852","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Israel Group Battles IRS Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\">Glenn Reynolds writes<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><i>WEEKLY STANDARD:<\/i>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/irs-discriminating-against-pro-israel-group\">Is  the IRS Discriminating Against a Pro-Israel Group?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a lawsuit filed in federal court today, the pro-Israel group Z  Street alleges that it has been discriminated against. Z Street says, in  its complaint, that was \u201cinformed explicitly by an IRS Agent on July  19, 2010, that approval of Z STREET\u2019s application for tax-exempt status  has been at least delayed, and may be denied because of  a special IRS  policy in place regarding organizations in any way connected with  Israel, and further that the applications of many such Israel-related  organizations have been assigned to \u2018a special unit in the D.C. office  to determine whether the organization\u2019s activities contradict the  Administration\u2019s public policies.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Z Street was told by an IRS agent that it might not  be granted 501(c)(3) status, which would allow the group to be tax  exempt, because its position toward Israel differs from the Obama  administration\u2019s official policies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ordinarily, I\u2019d find these allegations dubious.  But in light of  other stuff from this administration, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124260113149028331.html\">not quite  so much.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:  More at <a href=\"http:\/\/taxprof.typepad.com\/taxprof_blog\/2010\/08\/lawsuit-claims-irs-is-using-.html\">TaxProf.<\/a>   They told me if I voted for John McCain, we\u2019d see thuggish attacks on  people who oppose American foreign policy.  And they were right!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Reynolds writes: WEEKLY STANDARD: Is the IRS Discriminating Against a Pro-Israel Group? In a lawsuit filed in federal court today, the pro-Israel group Z Street alleges that it has been discriminated against. Z Street says, in its complaint, that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22852\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[15379,23502,23501,23503,30002,23504],"class_list":["post-22852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","tag-american-foreign-policy","tag-irs-agent","tag-irs-policy","tag-israel-group","tag-john-mccain","tag-tax-exempt-status"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}