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If protests are not annoying people will just ignore them
It also benefits movements through the radical flank effect. (e.g. when white people saw the Black Panther Party carrying guns to protect their community, MLK Jr's fairly peaceful sit-ins seemed not that bad in comparison, and when having to make a choice on whether or not to give black people rights, it was easier to justify doing so if the perceived alternative was "black people in the streets with guns")
In this case, the options then become "buy products that always have random sticky notes and are telling me I'm a bad person" vs "grab the product that doesn't have the sticky notes".
If it becomes increasingly annoying to buy products which support Israel because there's constantly little sticky notes/stickers, people pushing things further back on shelves or flipping products around, etc, then it becomes a lot easier to justify just... not bothering buying the products that are being boycotted. (and it also saves people the hassle of looking up which products are being boycotted, which just makes the lives of anti-Zionists easier)
I would say annoying people is the goal of protest. You make people unconfortable until something changes.
I don't think you should care
There are ways to be compelling other than annoyance.
Annoyance shouldn't be the goal, but will be a side effect. The main goal is to exert some sort of pressure. Like the Civil Rights Movement gave America horrid optics between Emmet Till's open casket funeral and the state unleashing batons, fire hoses and police dogs on school children. It also exerted financial impacts through the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The Movement was super effective though unpopular during those times.
I think a lot of people don't understand protesting and it's in the state's interest that this be the case tbh. Hence why they keep pushing sanitized MLK
Causing annoyance is one of the more polite ways of expressing your dissatisfaction with the status quo.
If not annoyance, what are you referring to?
Idk, violence is pretty annoying.
What ways are you referring to?