App to boycott Israeli goods

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the “No Thanks” app, which first appeared almost two years ago carrying a large list of companies and brands consumers might consider boycotting because of Israeli links.
The app has become a key tool for the BDS movement that targets Israel economically for the actions of its government and its military in Gaza.
Along with a list of companies and brands to boycott, the app allows users to scan barcodes to find out more about the relationship particular products have with Israel.

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Where did I say that? Stop twisting what people say. I am very happy for PA to be designated as terrorists. As I said up thread I find the comparisons with South Africa pretty odious.

The targetting of kosher, as opposed to Israeli, products as part of a boycott for Gaza, happens and is relevant. I didn't say it happened every day or in every supermarket but you and others aren't in a position to say it doesn't happen. And why would you?

What is much more pertinent to this board is how many of you are so determined to go on and on and on about it. Surely any reasonable person would say something along the lines of "wow, that's unacceptable I don't endorse that' rather than painting paeople as unreliable witnesses and pretending that there is no antisemitism at play in the boycott. You know Jewish buildings, organisations and people are targetted in general. Regardless of the legitimacy of boycotting as a form of political action, which actually is something that I support.

I would love if they would out a light system on it. For instance Waitrose - otherwise one of the more ethical companies - are on it for stocking Israeli goods while Coca Cola, Soda Stream, HP etc are on it because they have factories in occupied areas. I say this not because I condone companies stocking Israeli goods but because when you boycott all companies with any link it’s becomes harder to make an ethical choice as so many appear when you search the app. It also makes it harder for people who completely disagree with Israel’s actions to join the boycott.

A red and orange light system would let us know if it’s got direct links or if it’s through association so if you are out of food for lunches at 3.30pm on a Sunday you know which of the nearest supermarkets are the worst of the bunch.

By the way does anyone know which hummus brands are definitely not linked to Israel - most brands have stopped listing the origin and my toddler and partner eat a ton of it!

The IDF have been part of a campaign that involves murder, rape, bombing and kidnapping.

I remember chatting to SA people in my youth and the way some of them described black people was the same way many Israelis describe Palestinians. When you have an entire country indoctrinated to dehumanise the native population to justify their colonisation and brutal treatment of the natives, boycotting is a legitimate way to force them to look at the issue. South Africa was forced to reexamine itself because the world said No - that is what we have to do again - we are saying No!

'By the way does anyone know which hummus brands are definitely not linked to Israel - most brands have stopped listing the origin and my toddler and partner eat a ton of it!'

Ah yes must be a dilemma to find a non Israeli linked hummus. Maybe make your own to assure not contaminated? Isn't it just mashed chickpeas with a bit of oil. Chickpeas tend to come from India I believe so a safe purchase.

Mind, having said that you have to wonder about ethical concerns re slave labour india and the environmental concerns re importing. Coleslaw?

A quick google brings up a range of boycotting apps available, environmental: avoiding palm oil products, country specific: for example boycott America, and other ones where you can select from a range of causes or set up your own one
Many people boycotting many things for many reasons
I am boycotting Israeli goods among others because I don’t support genocide under any circumstances nothing more nothing less

Definitely avoid Sabre
heres a quite Google answer

Mehadrin who are one of Israel’s biggest fruit and veg producers Of note they don’t produce all their products in Israel and whilst some are produced in Israel they are shipped elsewhere for packaging.

I have no idea if the app picks up on this so worth looking out for Companies we know are Israeli and avoiding altogether

Here’s an example of the labelling. It’s the Same company so our money will still go back to Israel

I think this was suggested about two months ago. Some people seemed to think it was only the avocados which wouldn’t be bought. Glad to see things they are a changing!

Depends if you add tahini to the recipe.

You're in a right muddle. Israel has not colonised a native population. The situation is entirely different. White settlers in SA had no prior conne tion to SA. Jews are from the region.

The situation is a matter of opinion and it’s no surprise you take the Israeli one
Most of the world disagree and opinions such as yours are becoming increasingly isolated.

quick explanation of opinions that the majority agree with

( apologies for derail OP, just can’t stand posters putting others down. @KoalaKoKo is not in a muddle )

The question of apartheid is a different one. The pp referred to the colonisation of a native population and did not mention apartheid. Even without instituting tbe apartheid system SA was a colonial enterprise. Clearly that is not the case in Israel.

Thats to @DrPrunesqualer

Thanks Sharon. @KoalaKoKo made some very valid similarities with SA.
Her comments did not lack merit and she’s not ‘in a right muddle’. However you try to spin it. We get it.

New York Times article from 1899, the plan was always colonization.

Unfortunately there are historical revisionists whp continue to deny this.

https://www.nytimes.com/1899/06/20/archives/conference-of-zionists-elect-delegates-at-their-meeting-in.html

I dunno but in trying to find out I saw this recent news! FFS why aren't Sainsburys telling their customers?! Deadly e-coli in the houmous !?

It should be on their grocery website as soon as you open it up but it's not. I went in there 2 days ago and saw no signage whatsoever.

www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/13/sainsburys-recalls-two-own-brand-hummus-varieties-over-e-coli-fears

In 1922 jewish people made up 11% of the land that now makes up Israel, by 1947 that had risen dramatically to 32% - today that figure is approximately 75%. The 11% were definitely native, and those that came pre 1948 and bought land and houses were simply immigrants and not colonisers (I say that as an immigrant myself). But in 1948 the Nakba saw circa 800,000 native arabs driven from their homes at gun point, in some villages many of them were murdered! Since then most have been refused the right to return.

Today in the West Bank and indeed in Jerusalem we see these settlements continue with people arriving from Europe and America taking native arabs homes at gun point and often times murdering the inhabitants. These people are not native to the land, they are colonisers, these settlements are colonisations. It is taking another groups lands, subjecting them to your laws and degrading their rights. Your religion does not give you a right to the land - christians also have huge huge ties to the region but we do not have a right to take property that someone has worked hard for and paid for because we have a religious tie. It was a colonisation and the expansion to create a Greater Israel is colonisation. The children and grandchildren of the original colonisers now have ties to the land because they have grown up there but it is no different from any other colonisation and dehumanising the native arabs and christians is apartheid.

You are confused about what apartheid is and to suggest inequalities and prejudices in Israel amount to a complete institutionalised sytem of segregation and hierarchy is a gross distortion of reality. As for Israel as a whole being a coloniser state its a nonsense and I really can't be arsed to go over it yet again.

Those that are interested can read this.www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/decolonization-narrative-dangerous-and-false/675799/

That article was written in October 2023.

He does provide a convincing argument against the colonisation narrative. He also attempts to be fair. For example- he justly criticises what has happened to the Palestinians in the West Bank:

“I should also say that Israeli rule of the Occupied Territories of the West Bank is different and, to my mind, unacceptable, unsustainable, and unjust. The Palestinians in the West Bank have endured a harsh, unjust, and oppressive occupation since 1967. Settlers under the disgraceful Netanyahu government have harassed and persecuted Palestinians in the West Bank: 146 Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem were killed in 2022 and at least 153 in 2023 before the Hamas attack, and more than 90 since.”

Given this, I wonder what he would think about what has happened in Gaza since he wrote that article. There clearly wasn’t a genocide happening in Gaza then, but that can’t be argued now - and at least there are concerns about war crimes.

I wonder what his response would be now to Knesset members suggesting what sounds like ethnic cleansing of Gaza, the continued annexation of West Bank?

I couldn’t find anything more recent written by him about the situation in Gaza…

Under Israeli law, a Jewish citizen of any other country who has never been to Israel can move there and automatically gain citizenship, while Palestinians expelled from their homes in what became Israel and living for more than 75 years in refugee camps in Gaza (the majority of Gaza’s population are refugees) or a nearby country cannot.
We also found that Israeli authorities maintain a two-tiered legal system: methodically privileging Israelis, who have the same rights and privileges wherever they live, while repressing Palestinians to varying degrees wherever they live. As Hagai El-Ad, the former director of the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, wrote, “There is not a single square inch in the territory Israel controls where a Palestinian and a Jew are equal.”

are all these people wrong too?

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/05/does-israels-treatment-palestinians-rise-level-apartheid

https://thisisapartheid.btselem.org/eng/#1

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-system-of-apartheid/

is this former Mossad agent muddled??

”Pardo told the Associated Press that Israel’s mechanisms for controlling the Palestinians, from restrictions on movement to placing them under military law while Jewish settlers in the occupied territories are governed by civilian courts, matched the old South Africa.
“There is an apartheid state here,” he said. “In a territory where two people are judged under two legal systems, that is an apartheid state.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/06/israel-imposing-apartheid-on-palestinians-says-former-mossad-chief

@SharonEllis