It's perfectly valid to boycott a company if you disagree with their ideology.
For example, when chick-fil-a was openly anti-gay marriage (including after Obergefell), I stopped eating there. As a gay man, I don't want my money going to people who actively wish to harm me.
And it's fine. It was low friction, and I've saved a lot of calories.
That doesn't mean you're then required to boycott everything. Perfect isn't the enemy of good. If you feel like it, boycott.
It's a valid position to have. Same way as our customers are important targets for Russian state intel. actors so to minimize risk we will not be using product X is also perfectly valid position to have.
Exactly. The context here requires us to remember that US, and UK, etc governments are funding and providing weapons to a genocide being carried out by Israel.
Intellij is a great product, I would still use it even if it were Israeli.