I do not support academic boycotts. It just further politicizes scientific inquiry, which is too politicized already.

A similar thing happened in California, though on a much smaller scale. In order to protest against states with restrictive abortion laws, California prohibited the use of public money to fund any travel to those states, including academic travel. It made my life more difficult, and frankly I think it was pointless and accomplished nothing. None of the boycotted states changed course. Eventually, California reversed course, having accomplished nothing, so I would say this was a policy failure.

I would consider this kind of boycott a form of "virtue signaling". Because if you really cared about changing the course of Israel's policy, rather than feel like and look like you are doing something, there are probably much more productive approaches than an academic boycott.