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.

'Apps that promote discrimination based on race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, or other protected characteristics are banned by app stores.'

This is surely discrimination no matter how 'right' the app bloke thinks he is. I'll get my complaint in. Unless he's suggesting you boycott everyone involved in a conflict not just Israelis?

You started the thread.

Go on then, give your best explanation as to how it is 'exactly the same'?

@Gloriia

Child: what did you do during the war (genocide) Mum?

G: well I told everyone who opposed it they were Nazis and tried to shut down any peaceful way to oppose it

Child: wtf

What?

What I said is Jews <75% of Isreal's population, the rest Arab and I presume their businesses are not to be boycotted> should not be targeted and boycotted because of the decisions of their leaders. We can agree that is not right surely?!

Civilians on both sides are of equal value and should not be punished for their leaders actions. It's difficult in gaza granted as hamas use them and don't care about deaths and suffering but hypothetically speaking we wouldn't say have stopped buying produce from innocent gazans after Oct 7th would we?

No Israel didn’t stop buying Gazan products they just bombed and starved the instead

People want to support his app, they're happy with what they're supporting. He thinks Jews, Christians and Muslims were living together before Israel, Israelis would claim they're living together now within Israel. Perspectives differ.

At 50 minutes in... to paraphrase...no Israel, they can all go home, it's not your land it's ours.

A one state solution from the river to the sea. If that's what people support, it means the disappearance of Israel, one way or another, and I doubt his view about sending them all home is a minority view after the footage of 7/10.

The app seems popular on this board.

The app is popular as the majority of people oppose genocide

I didn't say Israel. I said hypothetically if we had previously bought items from gaza we would not have boycotted it after Oct 7th would we? We'd be intelligent and recognise some gazans do not support hamas so they should not be penalised.

Is he making money from this app that targets Jewish businesses or do all funds go to gazan charities do we know?

The app is free to download so he would not make any money from it, his motivation is to provide a peaceful way to express opposition given his family history noble

Except this man has done nothing but make an app. Israel the country that is subject to the boycott is actively involved in genocide as agreed by all major NGOs and UN. Israel are in the process of making Israel be 'from the river to the sea' but not as a one state solution, they are committing genocide to do it. Do you think we should feel comfortable giving money to a government that is actively committing genocide, money that will pay for that genocide?

'Israel the country that is subject to the boycott is actively involved in genocide'

The Israel government and the IDF are the ones involved in onflict in gaza.

If you believe gazans to be innocent then you should also believe Israeli civilians are.

Is this actual genocide the same as the actual famine that thankfully doesn't seem to have materialised or I'm sure we would have seen evidence of it by now.

Strange how everyone's gone very quiet on that.

Also very quiet on the real genocide and famine in Sudan.

Yes I wondered too….

Just ignore
Its all these same posters have

Mentioning Nazis and anti semitism and they seem to think we’ll be scared ….
🤣🤣🤣

Exactly.

Less taxes for the Israeli Government … that’s what boycotting is all about.

Local businesses will be affected but not as badly as they have been in Gaza.

'You can make money from apps by creating, in-app purchases, subscriptions, advertising, or affiliate partnerships'

Doesn't matter if free to download. There is money to be made which I'm sure he is donating to gazan charities.

I believe he mentions that on the you tube interview.

What on earth is funny?

We are talking about boycotting Israeli businesses. 75% of the population in Israel are Jewish.

I also find it slightly troubling, from a motive to set up the app POV, that the founder's brother, a Turkish citizen, returned to Gaza for a short visit and was there on Oct 31st 2023 when he was killed there. Did he return after Oct 7th 2023 do we know?

How did he manage to get into this open air prison, and why would he want to, especially after a war had started? I understood citizens of other countries were able to leave Gaza after Oct 7th?

It is alleged that his sister died after being denied medical care in Jerusalem. I wonder if this has anything to do with that?

Easy enough to blame everything on Israel though.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-60829319

A piece from Jewish Voices for Labour calling for a boycott

World public opinion has been reshaped, ears are open and voices are at last being heard. But we must be under no illusions. Israel still has many assets, including friends in positions of strategic influence. It will deploy these in an attempt to blunt or undermine the current clarity, and we can expect ‘antisemitism’ to be part of the counter-attack. That is why we need to have clear Jewish voices, of individuals and of organisations, saying loud and clear, that it is a mitzvah (a blessing) to argue for and to practice boycott.
Back in the first heyday of the BDS movement there was an active group in the UK called Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods. Its motto was its kosher to boycott Israeli goods. But of course boycott now covers much more than ‘goods’. Academic and cultural boycott are centre stage too, as are the campaigns against arms exports, to get universities in particular to divest from Israel, and so many more. So we need a new title, but most of all we need a strong Jewish voice putting the case for BDS as an expression not of Jew-hatred but of Jewish values.

The last time I looked Israeli was not a race, religion, sexual orientation, gender nor any other protected characteristic. There is one race - the human race. Israeli is not a religion. Given the number of sexual orientations and genders these days, I am prepared to see an argument that Israeli is either a sexual orientation or gender...

Isn't it a bit embarrassing to be bleating on about how Israeli citizens will suffer economically if people boycott them, because why should they suffer for their government, whilst at the same time turning a blind eye and defending kids being bombed and buried alive, made to suffer in unimaginable ways, because of their government.

Economic sanctions and boycotts work against a government via it's citizens. It's how it works in every country and Israel is no different. We shouldn't be spending our money to support genocide.

Where are the borders of Israel that 75% of the population is Jewish?
Actually its a lot lower if based upon the territory under control of Israel and that the Israeli government are claiming annexation of.
Israel is a state that can be held to account like any other state should be when it commits atrocities up to and including genocide.

Many Jewish people oppose what the state of Israel are doing including those in Israel.