At the very least that means you are an annoyance. best case scenario, you actually harm their business.

Though I have to say, I don't get the Bat Sheva thing. Why boycott the national dance company? as far as I know, they are not settlers, they don't actively support the occupation, and a few of their dancers actually refused to preform in settlements (Which is against the law now in Israel). Can someone fill me in on this? except being an Israeli dance company, did they do something to warrant a boycott?

Israeli State-funded Batsheva Dance Company, participants in Brand Israel, are scheduled to perform at the Edinburgh International Festival at the end of August and then to tour the UK during November, taking in Salford, Birmingham, Bradford, Leicester, London, Brighton and Plymouth.

Hana Awwad, longtime member of El Funoun, one of Palestine’s premiere dance troupes:
“As a Palestinian dancer based in the West Bank, I am prohibited by the Israeli government from traveling to Gaza for performances. Some of our dancers are also prohibited by the Israeli government from ever accompanying the troupe when it performs in neighboring Palestinian cities and abroad.”

Iman Fakhouri, director of the Popular Arts Centre in Jerusalem:
Two of our dance performances were cancelled because Israel denied our dancers entry to Jerusalem. Israeli forces outside the theatre were trying to remove people by force. Some people, both from the audience and the artists, were beaten up and arrested.”

Aharon Shabtai, leading Israeli poet:
“I do not believe that a State that maintains an occupation, committing on a daily basis crimes against civilians, deserves to be invited to any kind of cultural week. That is, it is anti-cultural; it is a barbarian act masked as culture in the most cynical way. It manifests support for Israel...”

Iain Banks, best-selling Scottish author:
“I would urge all writers, artists and others in the creative arts to convince Israel of its moral degradation and ethical isolation, preferably by simply having nothing to do with this outlaw state.”
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Batsheva and Brand Israel
Batsheva Dance Company participate in the 'Brand Israel' initiative, which aims to create a positive image of Israel internationally by promoting Israeli culture through artists and groups such as Batsheva. It is a campaign to whitewash Israel's human rights abuses and violations of international law, creating a false image of a 'normally' functioning, democratic country.

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs fund Batsheva's international tours
This is the same government which for over six decades has sustained a system of occupation, dispossession and apartheid which has left millions of Palestinians living as refugees, often imprisoned by a matrix of checkpoints, illegal apartheid wall, militarized settlements and Jewish-only roads. Batsheva's explicit ties with the state of Israel makes it impossible to describe the group as 'apolitical'.