The boycott was started by a very strange extreme Zionist blogger
Really? How do you know he’s strange? BTW, I do know the blogger who started this. He and his family are good friends of ours. Not sure why you would consider his strange, since he’s shomer mitzvot. In fact, he’s more machmeer on some of the mitzvot than you are, you know, the ones like yishuv ha’aretz, terumot, meisrot, those things you don’t bother with because you don’t live ba’aretz.
And yes, the boycott does have an impact. People have already gotten emails back from the distilleries and the coporations that run them expressing their disgust at the actions of that local Scottish council. Why? Because they are already losing business. (Yes, I’ve seen some of the emails.)
It is started by people who hardly care about kashrus or any real Jewish values. . . It is a foolish idea started by people who do not have Torah values.
I think we know who has the foolish ideas here, and it’s not the person who started the boycott.