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The deterioration of Israel’s democracy in recent weeks has been so extreme and speedy that all Jews must now do whatever we can to save Israel from itself.

For Jewish communities in the United States, this is an especially weighty duty. Most such communities have attempted to support Israel by defending its government and policies from any American intervention, including fighting against any U.S. policy measures that restrict funding to Israel for any reason.

This mistake has always been costly for both the victims of Israeli policies and for Israel itself: in effect, it has always served as a huge boost to right-wing governments and policies in Israel. But with the swearing in of a most horrendous, illiberal, anti-democratic, Jewish-supremacist government, it has become an unbearable one.

Even if the justification of boycotts has in the past been questionable, I think that American Jews owe it to Israel, and to Israelis like myself, to promote such measures now. After the disproportionate Israeli military incursion into Jenin, and the predictably tragic cycle of violence it engendered the next day in Jerusalem, Israel’s far-right government is using this as an opportunity to further their own political goals. We cannot allow this kind of illiberalism to continue.

In the current circumstances, supporting Israel can only mean opposing its policies and government. It can only mean standing up for the values that Israel was supposed to be about — the democratic, liberal values that the overwhelming majority of Jewish communities in the U.S. hold dear.

Supporting Israel has to mean promoting its deepest interests — namely, to be a decent state, one in which women are not systematically excluded from positions of power or from segregated public events, one with a reasonable balance of power between the different branches of government, one with a non-politicized education system and one that respects the dignity and relationships of members of the LGBTQ community.

Supporting Israel has to mean also — perhaps primarily — fighting the all-corrupting occupation and the oppression of millions of Palestinians that comes along with it, an occupation that the current government is determined to strengthen in more and more violent means. And the way to do this now — to support Israel rather than its government or policies — is by exerting pressure.

I know from conversations with many American Jews that they often feel that criticizing Israel, and certainly pressuring Israel, is not their place. The claim is sometimes made that any such measures by Americans to influence Israeli policy will amount to illegitimate interventions in the decision-making procedures of a democracy. But this claim cannot withstand criticism. The democratic credentials of the new Israeli government have declined with its intended assault on the rule of law and the judiciary, and its blatant politicization of security forces that will be subjected to Itamar Ben-Gvir’s direct control. This presents not only a moral emergency and call to action. It also — much like the occupation — renders democratic qualms about pressuring Israel laughable.

American Jewish communities and organizations bear a particular moral burden as they have played an extremely influential and harmful role in Israeli politics. By supporting Israeli policy and governments no matter how unjust, by pressuring congressional Democrats not to voice concern about such policies, by advocating that the U.S. supply Israeli governments with military resources to a degree that no other nation receives, American Jews have co-signed Israel’s sense that it can do anything it wants without consequences. American Jews have played an active role in bringing about the situation we are in today, where anything remotely resembling a democracy in Israel is in jeopardy.

It is not acceptable for American Jewry to now, in the face of ominous news of Israel’s new far-right government, descend into inaction and apathy. American Jewry must take responsibility for its past mistakes and for the reality they helped create, and actively lead the struggle to change it. And the way to do this now — perhaps for the first time in the history of Israel — cannot be that of a polite dialogue.

The new government is mobilizing forces against any balance of powers, against any protest, against any opposition. It is entirely uninhibited by democratic or moral niceties. It is not even inhibited by thoughts about Israel’s international image. Internal forces within Israel can no longer be expected to bring about the needed changes on their own. Israelis need your help.

Jewish communities must distance themselves from the current government in any way possible: Stop inviting — and refuse to host — Israeli officials connected to the current government. It cannot just be the most extreme members of the coalition like Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich who lose the privilege of American hospitality, but also Minister of Justice Yariv Levin — the main force behind the suggested “legal reform” — and Netanyahu himself. All those who are implicated in the current wholesale attack on Israeli democracy must be unwelcome at American Jewish institutions. The message has to be clear that the current government is beyond the pale.

We also need you to take specific actions against the occupation: Boycott products coming out of the settlements. Refuse to cooperate with settlement municipalities, host sports teams coming out of the settlements or take tours of wineries on occupied land. Support liberal actors within Israel, both in politics, journalism and NGOs.

It is crucial now to support those American politicians who will champion in Congress measures intended to create such pressure on Israel, including, for instance, making aid conditional on ceasing settlement expansion and on reigning in settlers’ violence.

Recent weeks have seen much-needed protest in Israel itself. I hope such efforts will only increase with time. But we cannot succeed without your aggressive help. American Jewish organizations and communities can no longer forget their liberal values when they talk about Israel. The fate of our democracy depends on it.

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US consumer confidence lags as 2023 gets underway

(AP) — American consumers are kicking off 2023 a bit less confident than they were at the end of last year as inflation and the possibility of a recession loom.

The Conference Board reported Tuesday that its consumer confidence index slipped to a still-optimistic 107.1 in January, down from 109 in December. Last month’s reading was the highest the index has reached since April.

The business research group’s present situation index — which measures consumers’ assessment of current business and labor market conditions — rose to 150.9 from 147.4. Respondents continue to express optimism about the stability of their incomes and the broader U.S. job market, which has held up well even as the Federal Reserve has tried to cool the economy and with a succession of “jumbo” rate increases.

The board’s expectations index — a measure of consumers’ six-month outlook for income, business and labor conditions — deteriorated to 77.8 in January from 83.4 in December. A reading under 80 often signals a recession in the coming year, the Conference Board said.

The conference board said consumers’ intention to buy big-ticket items like cars held steady, but plans to purchase homes fell even further with higher interest rates and home prices.

Getting a read on consumers’ view of the economy lately has been as uneven as the economy itself.

Earlier this month, the government reported that Americans cut back on spending in December for the second straight month as inflation and the rising cost of using credit cards slowed consumer activity over the crucial holiday shopping season. Retail sales fell a worse-than-expected 1.1% in December, following a revised 1% drop in November, the Commerce Department reported.

Solid hiring, rising pay, and savings beefed up by government financial support during the pandemic enabled most Americans to keep up with rising prices. That government assistance has long ended, however, and some Americans have dipped into savings accounts since then. Credit card defaults are on the rise, with some households slow to adjust their spending to a new reality.

Still, the job market is a pillar of strength in the U.S. economy and wages continue to rise, creating a conflict for the Fed which needs to cool spending and hiring to control inflation.

Inflation does appear to be in retreat, falling for the sixth straight month, to 6.5% in December.

The willingness to buy a home has faded with mortgage rates that are nearly double what they were a year ago. The National Association of Realtors reported earlier this month that sales of previously occupied U.S. homes declined for the 11th straight month in December and 2022 sales declined nearly 18% from 2021. That’s the weakest year for home sales since 2014 and the biggest annual decline since 2008, during the housing crisis of the late 2000s.

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Biden, McCarthy, once breakfast mates, wrangle over US debt

WASHINGTON (AP) — Not so long ago, Joe Biden and Republican leader Kevin McCarthy used to talk things over at breakfast in Biden’s vice presidential home at the Naval Observatory.

Biden was intent in those days on “keeping up relations with the opposition party,” as he writes in his memoir, and the new House majority leader often arrived with fellow GOP lawmakers in tow.

But now, with a potential national debt crisis l ooming, those morning meetings in 2015 seem a political lifetime ago as Democratic President Biden and McCarthy, the new House speaker, prepare for their first official meeting Wednesday at the White House.

“You know, when I met with him as the vice president, he was always eager to sit down and talk,” McCarthy recalled to The Associated Press ahead of the meeting. “He was always a person who would like to try to find solutions, work together.”

Biden has signaled no such open-ended hospitality this time as newly emboldened House Republicans court a risky debt ceiling showdown.

At a fundraiser Tuesday in New York, Biden called McCarthy a “decent man” who was being pulled by demands from restive Republicans.

“He made commitments that are just absolutely off the wall” in order to win the speaker’s gavel, Biden said.

Two affable leaders known for their willingness to strike deals, Biden and McCarthy find themselves charging headlong into uncomfortable political terrain in hardball negotiations over the nation’s debt limit.

A generation apart — McCarthy, 58, has been in Congress just a third of the time that Biden, 80, has held elected office — the two men are deeply familiar with the ways of Washington and positions of power.

Both have built political brands on their ability to meet with all comers, forging deals where none seemed likely. They’ve shown mutual respect during their limited interactions in Biden’s presidency. And both have been here before, veterans of the last fiscal showdown, in 2011, when Biden, as vice president to Barack Obama, tried to negotiate an endgame to a standoff with McCarthy’s predecessors in Congress.

The political as well as economic stakes are apparent this time as Biden considers another run for the White House and McCarthy strains to keep his new job as speaker of the House, including its right-flank Republicans.

“Just like in 2011, it’s not going to be real kumbaya,” said Neil Bradley, vice president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a former top aide to former House GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Bradley, who was part of earlier Biden talks, said, “These are both seasoned leaders who understand what it takes to get things done in Washington.”

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has notified Congress that it will need to raise the debt ceiling, now set at $31 trillion, to allow continued borrowing to pay the nation’s already accrued bills. While the Treasury Department has been able to launch “extraordinary measures” to temporarily avoid a debt default, that’s only expected to last until June.

The debt ceiling showdown carries echoes, but also differences, from 2011, when the House Republican “tea party” majority rose to power, demanding budget cuts and threatening a potentially catastrophic federal debt default.

Recalling those difficult negotiations, Biden has been reluctant to negotiate with the new House Republicans under McCarthy. Ahead of Wednesday’s meeting, the White House released a memo outlining the “two questions” Biden will pose to the Republican leader.

“Will the speaker commit to the bedrock principle that the United States will never default on its financial obligations?” reads one of the questions, in part. And: “When will Speaker McCarthy and House Republicans release their Budget?”

The memo, from White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese and Shalanda Young, the Office of Management and Budget director, noted that Biden will be releasing the administration’s budget on March 9 — notably blowing past a February deadline — and called on McCarthy to detail precisely how Republicans would cut the government spending that they insist is too high.

McCarthy all but invited himself to the White House as he pushed for the meeting with Biden. And he has made it clear he is willing to bargain, announcing over the weekend he will not be proposing cuts to Medicare or Social Security as Republicans try to slash federal spending as part of any debt ceiling deal.

While McCarthy comes to the negotiating table with the power of the new House majority behind him, he is also viewed as coming somewhat empty-handed.

It’s not at all clear the new speaker will be able to deliver the votes needed from divided Republicans in Congress on any debt deal. He has promised his GOP hardliners a return to fiscal 2022 spending levels, but even that might not be enough budget cutting for some of them.

It’s a potential repeat of the 2011-12 fiscal showdown, when the Obama administration negotiated with Republicans before finally settling on a deal that Biden negotiated with the Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell to ease the crisis.

“We’re all behind Kevin, wishing him well in the negotiations,” McConnell said Tuesday, his own Senate Republicans in the minority.

“The deal has to be cut, obviously, between the House majority and the Democratic president, in order for it to have a chance to survive over here.”

Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., said that Biden and McCarthy “don’t have the historic relationship that Senator McConnell and Biden have had through the years, but I do think circumstances necessitate and dictate at times that people have to come together — whether they like it or not.”

Like the Republicans, Democrats are skeptical of dealing with the opposing party. They’re pushing Biden to drive a hardline bargain against any trade-offs.

Congressional Progressive Caucus Chairwoman Rep. Pramila Jayapal said Biden “has seen over the last two years who he’s negotiating with — these are not people who are actually about negotiating something that makes sense for the working people.”

The president, she added, has been “such a champion of working people and reversing inequality” that any budget-slashing deal with Republicans “would reverse all of that work.”

Refusal to negotiate with Republicans has been off-brand for Biden, who has championed his decades of experience in building relationships with lawmakers, governors and administrations of both parties.

In many ways, Biden and McCarthy are picking up where they left off from those breakfast meetings.

“I think he’ll start by listening more than he talks, by getting to know Speaker McCarthy a little bit more as a person and by exploring what their common priorities might be,” said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., a close ally of the president.

Republican Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, a former history professor, said of the two: “They’re career public servants. They’re both intensely political. I think they’re both hail-well-met fellows. It seems to me that they’ll have a reasonably good discussion.”

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VP Harris to attend Nichols funeral as prosecutors weigh more charges

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Vice President Kamala Harris will attend Wednesday’s funeral of Tyre Nichols, the Black man who died three days after Memphis police officers savagely beat him following a traffic stop earlier this month, the White House said on Tuesday.

Nichols will be eulogized by the Reverend Al Sharpton at a service at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis on Wednesday morning. Family members of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, who were killed by police in Louisville, Kentucky, and Minneapolis in 2020, will also attend.

Meanwhile, Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy said on Tuesday that prosecutors could bring more criminal charges against police officers and others in connection with Nichols’ fatal beating, after mounting criticism over how Mulroy’s office and the Memphis Police Department have handled the case.

Five officers, all Black, were charged last week with second-degree murder and dismissed from the force. The department confirmed on Monday that a sixth officer, Preston Hemphill, had been suspended from duty soon after the Jan. 7 attack but has not been criminally charged.

After video footage of the deadly encounter with police was made public on Friday, calls have grown louder for local police officials and prosecutors to be more transparent about the circumstances of the incident, given that the initial police reports do not match what was seen on the videos.

The family’s attorney Ben Crump on Tuesday said that police had not been candid with Nichols’ mother about the incident, which he referred to as a “police lynching.”

“She thought it was a conspiracy to cover it up from the beginning,” Crump said on CNN.

In a statement on Twitter, District Attorney Mulroy said other officers, fire department personnel and others who prepared documentation of the incident may also face criminal charges as more information becomes available.

“We are looking at all individuals involved in the events leading up to, during, and after the beating of Tyre Nichols,” his office said, adding that the investigation is incomplete.

In an apparent reference to Hemphill, the office said an officer present during the initial encounter with Nichols may also face charges. Hemphill, who is white, wore the body camera that captured the first of four videos released by authorities of the traffic stop and violent confrontation that followed, according to his attorney, Lee Gerald.

In the video, it is Hemphill who appears to fire a stun gun at Nichols after Nichols is dragged from his car, forced to the ground and doused with pepper spray before he breaks free and runs away. The five officers who were later dismissed chased him.

A seventh officer who was not immediately identified was also relieved of duty without pay, the department said on Monday, and that officer has not been charged. His role in the incident has not been disclosed.

Three members of the Memphis Fire Department who responded to the altercation were dismissed on Monday after investigators found Nichols was left handcuffed on the ground without medical attention for nearly 15 minutes after the beating.

Police Chief Cerelyn Davis has said an unspecified number of officers besides the five initially charged remain under investigation for policy infractions stemming from Nichols’ arrest.

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People take part in a protest after the death of Tyre Nichols, the Black man who was fatally beaten by Memphis police officers, in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. January 30, 2023. REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer
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Wall St gains over 1% after encouraging inflation data with Fed next

2023-01-31T21:34:27Z

Traders work on the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., January 27, 2023. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

Major U.S. stock indexes closed over 1% higher on Tuesday as labor cost data encouraged investors about the Federal Reserve’s aggressive approach to taming inflation a day ahead of the central bank’s critical policy decision.

Investors also digested a full plate of earnings reports. Shares of Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) and United Parcel Service Inc (UPS.N) rose following their respective results, while Caterpillar Inc (CAT.N) and McDonald’s Corp (MCD.N) ended weaker after their results.

The S&P 500 tallied its first January increase since 2019, gaining 6.2%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq jumped 10.7% for the month – its biggest January percentage rise since 2001.

U.S. labor costs increased at their slowest pace in a year in the fourth quarter as wage growth slowed, Labor Department data showed. The U.S. central bank on Wednesday is expected to hike the Fed funds rate by 25 basis points, following a 2022 in which the Fed aggressively boosted rates to control soaring inflation.

The labor cost data is “indicating that maybe what the Fed has done is working and … we’re rounding the corner on interest rate hikes,” said Peter Tuz, president of Chase Investment Counsel in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) rose 368.95 points, or 1.09%, to 34,086.04, the S&P 500 (.SPX) gained 58.83 points, or 1.46%, to 4,076.6 and the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) added 190.74 points, or 1.67%, to 11,584.55.

All 11 S&P 500 sectors ended in positive territory, led by materials (.SPLRCM) and consumer discretionary (.SPLRCD), both up over 2%.

Aside from the Fed’s rate decision on Wednesday, Chair Jerome Powell’s news conference will be scrutinized for whether the rate-hiking cycle may be coming to a close and for signs of how long rates could stay elevated.

“Jerome Powell and team are probably looking at this easing of financial conditions that has happened over the last month, and we will see if they try to push back against it to any extent,” said Mona Mahajan, senior investment strategist at Edward Jones. “I don’t think they would want markets to move up too far, too fast either.”

In earnings news, Exxon Mobil shares rose 2.2% after the oil major posted a $56 billion net profit for 2022, setting not only a company record but a historic high for the Western oil industry.

United Parcel Service shares climbed 4.7% after its quarterly profit topped estimates, while General Motors Co (GM.N) shares jumped 8.3% after it forecast stronger-than-expected earnings for 2023.

Caterpillar shares sank 3.5% as the machinery maker’s fourth-quarter earnings slid by 29%. McDonald’s shares dropped 1.3% after the burger chain warned inflation will weigh on margins in 2023.

A busy week for markets will also include reports in coming days from Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), central bank meetings in Europe and the monthly U.S. employment report.

Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 4.91-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 3.12-to-1 ratio favored advancers.

The S&P 500 posted 10 new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 100 new highs and 25 new lows.

About 12 billion shares changed hands in U.S. exchanges, compared with the 11.4 billion daily average over the last 20 sessions.


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