Boycotts and Free Speech

“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.” - G. K. Chesterton

While reading the news the other day I ran across an article indicating that Starbucks had lost $12 billion from boycotts due to its support for Israel.  The veracity of the report has been called into question as it is very hard to determine by an outsider for many reasons including that companies are understandably reluctant to admit that boycotts wor…