I've never even heard of the BDS movement until this comment, which is possibly a reason why PepsiCo didn't take this seriously.
I suspect when you made your comment you thought you were saying "the Emperor has no clothes", but it was actually more like "I don't know anybody who voted for Nixon". Surely the better strategy in a case like this is at least to bother Googling to see if it seems like an active thing or an irrelevant fringe thing.