Google Removes App That Helps People Boycott Pro-Israel Companies::NoThanks was temporarily suspended from the Google Play app store due to a line in its description speaking about Israel.

    • iopq@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      What I don’t understand, as someone who doesn’t support Hamas or Netanyahu, is why you would chant that.

      Like, where would Jews go? Is that actually a real solution? Only super old people actually came to Israel from another country, most of the Israelis don’t know any other home

      • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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        11 months ago

        It’s a thought terminating clishe. It’s easy to avoid complex issues if you can just repeat a quick little chant to get out of critical thinking.

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        11 months ago

        Many who chant it don’t even know what river or sea they are talking about without looking it up.

        And they don’t care what happens to the Jews. It’s a racist chant which is basically supporting genocide.

        It’s an idiotic phrase that only morons and racists would repeat. It’s unrealistic and doesn’t solve a damn thing. But of course the herd will repeat the catchy phrase because they have an excuse to be openly racist but still have a way of justifying it.

        There. I said it.

        And no, before these same idiots say otherwise: I am not happy with how Israel or the IDF is handling the current situation or the situation before October. Nor am I a supporter of hamas and their actions in early October; Israel just had their own 9/11, so of course they are going to react miltaryary, of course they fucking are, like every country on the planet would.

        This whole thing is like watching two unlikeable assholes having a boxing match. It’s basically boogie2899 Vs wingsofredemption but with a lot more death and destruction, so it’s not funny.

  • fne8w2ah@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Slightly off tangent but last year appeared this particular ID Nahui Scanner app that scans barcodes and highlights any Russian-made products (released in March 2022 but unfortunately no updates since then). So it basically operates similarly to the aforementioned No Thanks app.

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      11 months ago

      Well, it’s okay to boycott Russia for invading and occupying parts of Ukraine but god forbid you boycott Israel for invading and occupying the entirety of what we know as post 1967 Palestine.

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          11 months ago

          Ukraine blew up a major Russian railway a few days ago what are you talking about.

          Ukraine is doing plenty of terrorism against their occupier. Your double standards are showing.

  • danielfgom@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Well done Google.

    Just because a war is going on in someone’s country doesn’t mean you need to punish or target every company in that country. The war is not their fault. It has nothing to do with them.

    They should ban the app altogether for discrimination.