Posted on 08/13/2014 12:52:32 PM PDT by SJackson
According to Sky News, over 400,000 people downloaded Buycott, which makes it easier for shoppers to shun Israeli goods.
The popularity of a new smartphone app that allows consumers to more effectively boycott products according to their political tastes has skyrocketed thanks to the international outrage sparked by the conflict in the Gaza Strip.
According to Sky News, over 400,000 people downloaded Buycott, the app that gives users the option of making sure that the wares they purchase in stores do not financially benefit a cause to which they are opposed. Shoppers simply activate the app by waving it in front of a bar code that signals whether the origins of a particular product meets the buyer’s specifications.
The app offers users the option of boycotting Israeli goods, with 49 Israeli brands stored in the database. The groups of boycotters, one of which is listed under the title Long Live Palestine Boycott, garnered 275,000 memberships who now have a mechanism that will allow them to avoid purchasing products from Israeli brands like Sabra, SodaStream, and Volvo, which, according to pro-Palestinian supporters, is a company that sells Israel equipment used to dismantle Palestinian settlements in the West Bank.
“I noticed three weeks ago that we were seeing an unusual spike in traffic,” the app’s founder, Ivan Pardo, told Forbes. “Next thing I knew Buycott was a top 10 app in the UK and Netherlands, and number one in a number of Middle Eastern countries. Word was spreading through social media.”
While the Israel-Hamas crisis has provided a boost for the app’s popularity, Pardo told Forbes that the software was not specifically designed to target any particular cause, and that he himself does not hold any strong opinion on the conflict one way or the other.
"It bothers me that a lot of people are downloading Buycott and thinking that it was written specifically to boycott Israel,” Pardo told Forbes. “It was not, and to counter that notion I have been actively encouraging pro-Israel groups to start campaigns supporting Israel."
Yes terrorist organization, how can we help?
Idiots!
Do the Palestinians even produce anything for us to Buycott other than tunnels and their children to sacrifice?
Most are libs and A-rabs.
How can they tell that 200,000 people didn’t download their goofy app in order to know where to go TO BUY Israeli stuff? “Media” types who report this kind of crap aren’t very bright.
I can’t run aps on my phone. Can somebody print a list of products so I can go buy some? (My buddy just immigrated as he had dual citizenship. Every time the siren blows he has to gather his family and run downstairs. It has happened several times a day.)
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As some posters pointed out on prior threads, the app allows you to "boycott" products based on a number of factors, and is not specifically an anti-Israel app. List of campaigns here. And obviously the many anti Israel campaigns could be used in reverse.
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Think I’ll get the app and buy Israeli products.
Exactly.
Where can I get it? I’ll use it to look for Israeli products.
I am serious about this too!
My thoughts exactly. How about generating a list of Israeli brands that can be bought/supported on a daily basis?
Start your 'to buy' list with IMI brand ammo!
They can’t. Note the link in post 8, it’s not specifically anti-Israel but covers many campaigns. Most seem to be liberal, but the app can easily be used in reverse.
Funny thing is, lots of these products are sold everywhere. They don't necessarily benefit Israel, so boycotts are misguided. For instance, Volvo sells equipment everywhere. Same with lots of products sold to Israel. And Sodastream products are made by Palestinians employed by Israelis, directly benefitting poor Palestinians. A lot of technology products are Israeli made, and are the best available. This is one senseless boycott, displaying the idiocy of anti-Jewish losers.
“Media” types who report this kind of crap aren’t very bright.
Yeah, you would have thought they were Kenyan-American.
Thank you. That lovely creature brightened up an otherwise very grim thread.
Support the girlcotts. Buy Israeli.
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