The world is debating sanctions against Israel. I am watching young warriors rebuild their lives

Last week the British government banned imports from Israeli settlements in the West Bank , and the foreign secretary told Parliament that London should have moved sooner.

Eleven other countries signaled they would follow.

In response, Israel barred a group of British lawmakers and ordered the U.K. consulate in east Jerusalem closed.

You can argue that policy either way, and people will do that for months.

Let me be honest about my own reaction.

I was not surprised.

Not by Britain.

Not by the countries lining up behind it.

Not by the language that arrived with it.

I have spent enough time in this line of work to know when the mood turns, it turns in many places at once.

It has turned in London and Paris and Sydney.

It has turned on American campuses and in American arenas.

It has turned in the comment sections under stories about my organization that have nothing to do with politics at all, stories about a man learning to walk again.

BRITAIN’S DRAMATIC CRACKDOWN ON ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS SPARKS FIERCE RESPONSE AS US BLOWBACK LOOMS So I am not going to spend this column cataloging the hate.