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Boycotting Israeli products? There's an app for that
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Published: 14.03.14, 00:03
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31. App THIS!
rachel   (03.14.14)
No reason to not either use the site to PROMOTE the "BUY Israel program" and/or create a similar app that promotes Israel. Maybe a link to "hijack" or "fiddle with" the anti semitic app?
32. #8 Mark
Sara ,   Canada   (03.14.14)
Let's be honest here, they are boycotting for the same reason Europe did in the 30's... long before there were ever "settlements".
33. To Mark B.
Ehud   (03.14.14)
1. BDS is not about the two-state solution, but about delegitimizing Israel 2. That is why BDS even wishes to promote boycott of Volvo and BMW (the built in systems helping to avoid accidents is Israeli). 2. Our economy is already flourishing, thank you
34. We should help them
Taxpayer ,   Hod Hasharon   (03.14.14)
If you look at the Palestinian Authority website you can tell very easily that they are 100% behind this campaign - and so we should offer them our full assistance. The first two companies that should be on the list - which are fully supportive of the settlements are of course Mekorot and the Electricity Corporation - who shoul be instructed to comply with the boycott and immediately halt all exports over the Green line.
35. Israel has more start up companies than most other countries
CJK   (03.14.14)
the so-called bds movement can do nothing against israeli thechnology and innovation. the bds can boycott some fruits and vegetables, but not the jewish mind. they cannot boycott china or california or the uk, or new york, or any other country that has signed cooperation agreements with israel. the bds cannot boycott israel water technology, israel medical innovation, israel military innovation.
36. People like this enjoy driving
Ypip ,   Canada   (03.14.14)
37. ANOTHER THOUGHT....
rachel   (03.14.14)
kind of feel sorry for these poor BDS supporters....they need an app. Obviously the app will be much better at "helping" BDSers to become real, hardcore anti-Semites. It will be interesting to see what israeli business they load onto it.
38. Israeli boycott apps.
tiki ,   belgium   (03.14.14)
Of course the list of electronics 'made/invented in Israel' won't be on this app, for then the app itself couldn't exist! For the rest it's a great idea. It will be a huge (free) advertisement for Israeli products! Go Bigots, Dumb & Selective geniuses, it will be a great contribution to Blessings, Donations & Settlements in Israel!
39. BDS should send money to Palestine ...
Dan ,   K"S   (03.14.14)
to support their social services. The more industries they are boycotting on the west bank of the Jordan, the more unemployment. Israel has created a number of industrial parks and many have fallen out of use due to terror attacks by "Freedom Fighters". To whomever says the salaries are cheap. Do not compare salary to Tel Aviv, but to the local salary. You would not compare American salary to Chinese. Israel cannot transport the workers across state lines--- or can they. Of course they can since there are no borders between the Jordan and the sea. Or are there borders and that is why Israeli's can't build on the land? May.. This is confusing.
40. Wonderful! I'll be the first to download it!
Mira ,   Vienna   (03.14.14)
Eventually I will know all the Israeli enterprises and goods I will frequent and buy!
41. #8 BDS is for dummies
Benji ,   US   (03.14.14)
Israel's economy is flourishing. BDS is complete nonsense. Only for the bored and unemployed who can't afford Israeli products. Your patience is growing thin? Seriously, get a life!
42. Fantastic! No Intel products, no Microsoft,
Shmilfke ,   Dublin   (03.14.14)
no Honeywell products, avoid Boeing airplanes, avoid USB drives, no Microsoft products, no produce grown with Israeli technology, avoid a lot of modern medical procedures and products... Good luck to you guys!! Hahahaha!
43. BDS app
Sam ,   Jerusalem Israel   (03.14.14)
What an excellent idea ! We should all help this project, and within a couple of days, given the ubiquity of Israeli hi-tec innovations, BDS supporters will be unable to use their mobile phones or many other modern technologies. What stupid people.
44. BDS
Howard ,   Borehamwood   (03.14.14)
ITS A PURIM SPIEL----- isn't it
45. Great, I'll use it to buy israeli products
Mark ,   NYC   (03.14.14)
46. Gotta love the irony
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (03.14.14)
Using largely Israeli-created and Israeli-owned technology to push a BDS agenda. There are legal remedies, you know, very much worth pursuing. You cannot stop someone from believing what they wish to believe, but you can stop them from using your intellectual property to further their aims.
47. apps
(03.14.14)
yeah, probably OUR technology that enabled this
48. BDS App
Dennis Dean ,   Cincinnati, Ohio   (03.14.14)
This is wonderful news! This app is so ill-conceived that they don't realize how well it can be used to thwart the BDS movement. Now I can have an app that will enable me to know just what companies I will support and what products I will buy.
49. BDS
Charles ,   Petach Tikva   (03.14.14)
The future of those so called "illegal" settlements is one of the topics we have to discuss with the Palestinian "authorities" . Those "boycotters" forget that many so called "Palestinians" work for those Israeli companies . They will be the first ones to be dismissed . And if those companies will relocate in the Israeli side of the green line , the "pal" economy will be the looser . So those BDS supporters work AGAINST the "pals" ,.
50. An App to Combat the BDS App.
Rick Berlin ,   White Plains   (03.14.14)
Israel- You should not be complacent about BDS and this App. BDS is getting stronger and most young people involved with it don't understand the hypocracy involved, the double standards involved and that it is no more than a liberal fashion of the time emanating from Berkley-esque institutions among other overtly anti-Israel forces--- and thats coming from a liberal (me)!!! So... get on the stick!!!!! Develop your own App. possessing much the same functionality. You certainly have the technological capabilities "in country!!!". It wouldn't be hard to do!!! The guys here where I work could do this in their sleep!!! As much as I hate to admit it, you are arrogant to think world opinion doesn't matter and that you can go it alone. Strike back!!!
51. To: Shmilfke at No. 42
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (03.14.14)
You forgot one: no smart phones, either. (Meaning, of course ... no apps!) No CT scans; no MRIs. No pacemakers. Restricted to only about 30% of the chemotherapy protocols in use throughout the world today. The list is actually quite long.
52. Israeli data compression technology
Stephen in New York   (03.14.14)
The BDS folk may forsake all the hummus, soda and cosmetics the wish, but I don't see them forgo the Israeli data compression chips and software that enables them to receive video and such on their mobile devices.
53. Policy
Tomáš Kubín ,   Czech republic   (03.15.14)
APPLE: "Applications may not be designed or marketed for the purpose of harassing, abusing, stalking, threatening or otherwise violating the legal rights (such as the rights of privacy and publicity) of others." I am sure, that complaining against such application would be a succes.
54. history repeating itself
house of israel ,   jppj   (03.16.14)
bds had be extremly carefull they will the cause their own bankruptcy upon your own headwill fall your own evil
55. did it occur to anyone else that...
chavah ,   tzfat, Israel   (03.18.14)
...this app will almost certainly be made using software and technologies developed in Israel for phones whose technologies were most certainly developed in Israel? OOPS!
56. Slowly israel is finished off
Nestor Makhno ,   Germany   (03.19.14)
It is time to finish off this racist apartheidsstate. A few years maybe and the zionists will be all imprisoned
57. boycott those two..
(07.27.14)
boycott google and apple
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