A Google search for the Hebrew words for "soldier," "Hebron," "shot," "wounded" and "24.3" turns up more than 110,000 results as of March 28. At almost the same moment as the chilling clip documenting the alleged execution of an injured Palestinian attacker by an Israeli soldier was making the rounds online, Israeli diplomacy and morale sustained yet another blow.

The UN Human Rights Council voted to compile a blacklist of all Israeli and international firms operating directly or indirectly in the settlements of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. This is a far more serious move than the European Union’s decision to label Israeli products made in the settlements. More than a condemnation of the settlements for violating international law and a call to avoid helping them in any way, it also warns firms and businesspeople that involvement in financial dealings with the settlements could entangle them in human rights violations.

In a Pavlovian reaction the same day, the prime minister’s office said that the UN Human Rights Council “has become an anti-Israel circus.” But despite the impression that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to convey, according to which the vote was simply another predictable media event, the decision signifies another stage in the deterioration of Israel’s foreign relations. Not one state — not even Germany, Israel’s safest diplomatic bastion — voted against the decision. Thirty-two states voted in favor and 15 abstained, among them central European Union member states such as France, the UK, Belgium, Holland, Portugal and Germany. The former foreign minister, Knesset member Tzipi Livni of the Zionist Camp, decried the abstention by those states closest to Israel as a dramatic diplomatic collapse.

The deterioration of Israel’s international standing is not an issue that brings down governments in Jerusalem. What troubles Israelis are the mortgages they take for their apartments and other costs of living. Israelis will not take to the streets en masse over the relocation from the West Bank of companies like seltzer manufacturer SodaStream, Mul-T-Lock, Barkan Wines, Bagel Bagel and soon the Dead Sea Ahava cosmetics plant in the wake of the EU product labeling decision and indications of an international anti-Israel boycott. Few will bother to peruse the latest investigative report by the Gush Shalom organization, which reveals that the list of companies fleeing the West Bank is growing and now includes Adanim Tea, which moved out of the settlement of Ofra; the cosmetics firm Intercosma, which moved from the Atarot industrial park east of Jerusalem to Ashdod; Ikoo Design, which relocated from the Barkan industrial park to Ashdod and the town of Nesher; M.B.T., owned by drug giant Teva, which uprooted itself surreptitiously from the Atarot settlement industrial zone to the town of Beit Shemesh; and the Delta textile company, which relocated its warehouses from the West Bank to the industrial zone of Caesarea.