Media fallout from the Internal Revenue Service (irs) scandal has revealed that the organization isolated tax-exemption applications of groups that seemed pro-Israel for extra scrutiny in ways similar to its treatment of Tea Party groups and other conservative political organizations.

One such group that is now suing the irs is Z Street, an educational, Zionist organization founded by Lori Lowenthal Marcus in 2009.

In December 2009, the organization applied for tax exemption from the irs. An irs agent later informed one of Z Street’s attorneys that its application was being delayed and scrutinized by “a special unit in the D.C. office to determine whether the organization’s activities contradict the administration’s public policies.” Specifically, the attorney was informed that Z Street’s application was receiving extra scrutiny because it was “connected to Israel.”

In August 2010, Z Street filed a lawsuit against the irs for what it perceived as viewpoint discrimination and violation of constitutionally protected freedom of speech. In response to that lawsuit, the manager of the irs’s Exempt Organizations Determinations Group, Jon Waddell, wrote, “Israel is one of many Middle Eastern countries that have a ‘higher risk of terrorism.’ A referral to [an irs screening department] is appropriate whenever an application mentions providing resources to organizations in a country with a higher risk of terrorism.”

Writing in November 2010 for the Jewish Policy Center, Matthew M. Hausman observed that this extra scrutiny of Z Street “occurred not long after the left-wing organization J Street announced its campaign to lobby the Treasury Department to revoke the tax-exempt status of Jewish charities that support religious and cultural institutions in Judea and Samaria.” Incidentally, J Street has never been subjected to an irs investigation.

With the irs now publicly apologizing for its “insensitive” and “inappropriate” discrimination of Tea Party groups, it appears it also owes an apology to some pro-Israel groups that it has discriminated against. For the first time since Z Street’s 2010 lawsuit, a hearing will now take place on July 2 in the U.S. District Court in Washington.

The irs’s anti-Israel actions come at a time when the Jewish state of Israel is in desperate need of strong allies such as the U.S. Unfortunately, America has not been friendly of late.

This state of affairs perfectly lines up with Bible prophecy, which states that the brotherhood between Israel and America, in particular, will be broken in the end time. For more about the prophecies on this subject, read our article “Band of Brothers” and our booklet America Under Attack.