Israel’s Isolation Is Deepening Fast. It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way.

Dr. Efron is the Israel policy chair and a senior fellow at RAND. She wrote from Tel Aviv.

At the Eurovision song contest, Israel drew protesters as well as boycotts by Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, Iceland and Slovenia. Days later, Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, announced that the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is seeking an arrest warrant for him, and France and Poland barred another cabinet member, the national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, from entering their countries. All of this was in the past month alone.

Israel’s international isolation is deepening fast — a fact showing up in polls, social media, widening boycotts and the way a new generation around the world has come to instinctively view Israel mainly as part of a story about occupation and Palestinian suffering. It is increasingly........

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