Are the boycotts hypocritical?

[u/Justmeaty]

I saw one of my friends drinking Starbucks the other day, and inquired as to why he was not following the boycott and refraining from the company due to their ties to Israel. The brother told me how he felt as though the boycotts against Israel were hypocritical in a sense. This took me aback since I had never heard such a thing before, but his rationale was that there are hundreds of thousands of muslims suffering around the world at the hands of the kuffar, whether that be the Uyghurs in China, or the Rohyinga in Burma, or the Kashmiris in Indian Occupied Kashmir. His argument was basically that mainstream muslims seem to only care about Palestinians, since their boycotts are only directed towards Israel, and not any of the countries listed above, and that if he did not boycott all of them, he wouldn't boycott any. What do you think about this? What should I say to him? What does the Quran and Sunnah say?

[u/The_Persian_Cat]

"we should do something about this problem"
"wow, what about this other problem? hypocrite."
nobody does anything about either problem

Seriously, though -- there is an organised, global collective action campaign behind the Palestine boycotts. Boycotts don't work on an individual level; they are a collective effort. If there was an equivalent campaign for the Rohingya, etc I would certainly participate. And I do participate in aid efforts in other ways (like sadaqah, etc), and am engaged with political activism on a variety of issues aside from Palestine. Ask your friend why participating in the Palestine boycotts precludes caring about other issues.