<![CDATA[The campaign to boycott pro-Israel goods emerged as a result of the enduring conflict between Israel and Palestine. This boycott initiative led to a decline in sales, which adversely impacted the livelihoods of employees, manifesting in diminished bonuses, salary reductions, and job terminations. Such actions elicited a variety of reactions from the public on platform X. This study seeks to categorize the sentiments of X users regarding the boycott of pro-Israel products by comparing the efficacy of Machine Learning algorithms, namely Support Vector Machine and Random Forest. To address the class imbalance within the dataset, this research employs the synthetic minority over-sampling technique (SMOTE). The dataset comprised 2,275 entries, gathered through web scraping methods on the X platform. The findings indicate that a majority of X users in Indonesia endorse the boycott movement, exhibiting a positive sentiment of 58%. The SVM algorithm, when combined with SMOTE, demonstrated the highest performance in sentiment classification, achieving an accuracy of 90.54%, whereas Random Forest attained an accuracy of only 83.1%. This research offers insights into the views of the Indonesian populace regarding the boycott of pro-Israel products.]]>
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