Since October 7, we have been treated to a relentless lecture. Israel, we are told, has lost the world. It has squandered international goodwill. It has alienated its allies. It has isolated itself through its conduct in Gaza. Polls showing declining support in the United States are presented as exhibits in a trial whose verdict was apparently reached long ago.

Israel was attacked in the most brutal massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, responded by fighting a just war against the organization that carried out that massacre, and somehow emerged as the primary culprit in the eyes of much of the international community. The conclusion, we are assured, is obvious: Israel has lost support because of its actions.

There is only one problem with this theory. It assumes Israel enjoyed remarkable support before October 7.

When exactly was this golden age?

Was it during the years when the BDS movement was expanding across Western campuses? Was it when student groups were calling for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against the Jewish state? Was it when anti-Israel activism became a permanent feature of university life? Or was it at the United Nations, where Israel has long occupied a unique category of international obsession?

From 2015 through 2024, the UN General Assembly adopted more than twice as many resolutions against Israel as it did against all other countries combined. At the UN Human Rights Council, democratic Israel has routinely attracted more condemnation than regimes run by dictators, warlords, and revolutionary clerics. Apparently, the world’s most pressing human rights........

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