I think boycotting is good! I have been personally boycotting this song and boosting calls for the company and the kids themselves to stop working with zionists and companies complicit in the Israeli apartheid, since I am deeply disappointed in the kids for this (3racha and bang chan especially, considering he's been vocal about being socially conscious in the past and if he still holds those values should do better than work with people who go against them). I think it's important to express that disappointment, especially since Stray Kids as a group have tried to cultivate an image of being at least somewhat socially conscious and are now going directly against that! At the same time their job as idols is has always involved working with morally bankrupt people and companies selling their music and public personality as wholesome so while I want them to speak up, I was never expecting them to. Idk! I have complex feelings about it. I think it’s a bad thing of them and their company to do, I’m not going to support it and I think it’s good for them to be made aware that it’s bad. I still enjoy most of their music and their public personas but the worth of their soul is between them and whatever god they do or don’t believe in. I can only hope that they will stir clear of working with zionists or misogynists in the future and I hope that whatever backlash is there now will get through to them. I’m not gonna be monetarily supporting them anytime soon, anyway.

That brings me to my second point with regards to this, which is that ultimately what matters to me is the liberation of the Palestinian people (as well as the liberation of all people oppressed by the current structures of power in the world) and while any progress on that front matters and it’s obvious everyone going to put in effort when it comes to the things they also care about outside of that, I think it’s important to regard it with the same importance as something like voting in elections. It’s a good thing to do, but it’s important not to let it become the main focus of someone’s effort. It’s sad when it fails, but an artist I like releasing a song with a zionist matters less to me than a politician that represents me politically and materially supporting Israel. Maybe I’m just cynical and weak about this, but when it comes to being in a fandom of something, for me it’s a community space where I can stretch my creative muscles with already having a framework to build around that everyone there is invested in, not so much about who or what it’s centered around, so I don’t wanna waste the already limited energy and concentration I have on being emotionally invested in whether an artist I like cares about the issues I do when I can keep doing my thing and pushing for change in the little ways that are sustainable for me in fandom while being more invested in more directly impactful issues (and of course this would be different if it was about them caring about the opposite of what I believe in). If someone else can manage to do that, that’s great! Every little bit matters, but I personally know I can’t go long-term without breaking down if I don’t pick my battles (wrt more actively pushing for the boycott instead of just boycotting), so that’s what I’m doing. I'm sorry if this is less coherent and goes outside of the scope of the question I am continually in the process of sorting my thoughts