Slightly off topic, but wasn’t there a general purpose boycott app? One that allowed one to figure out the political stance behind products. Initially it was marketed as the anti-woke app, but further investigation showed that anti-woke was only one profile of many you could subscribe to.
It’s a great app, unfortunately it’s not open-source. According to the Exodus report, it contains some tracking SDKs, but their network activity can be blocked in DNS. It also displays an ad banner by default, but this can easily be turned off in the settings.
I tried at and found it a little misleading. If you click Barbie, the proof is a Variety article about Hollywood condemning Oct. 7. That was in the first 2 minutes of scrolling the list. Uninstalled. Gonna try BoycottX
I love the idea of the app, but I think some greater coordination with the BDS movement would help. Instead of a simple “yes/no”, tell the user of the app which category the product/company is listed in by BDS and let them make up their own mind.
For example, currently products in the “pressure targets” are displayed exactly the same as “consumer boycott target”. As BDS says, boycotts are most effective when they’re more highly targetted. So there’s no problem with boycotting the pressure targets, but there is if someone uses the fact that they’re boycotting a pressure target as an excuse to feel good and not boycott a boycott target. Being clearer could only help.
Both countries didn’t join the ICC. There are obvious reasons for that - They know about being guilty. Keep in mind that the US is going after Assange not because he published some arbitrary “secrets” - he published evidence of American war crimes that the US army wanted to hush up.
I think, arrest warrants for Netanyahu and quite a number of people in the IDF are simply appropriate. The ICC is no political cangaroo court, and it would not charge or convict someone without evidence. Especially not a prominent figure.
Israel and the US are a danger to a rule based international order and morally and legally corrupting the west.
They are destroying the institutions that were established with a lot of effort to not repeat the horrors of the second world war and in particular the horrors of the Holocaust.
Now that they are held to the standards that they demanded from other countries, they attack the institutions that are our best bet to protect the world from another world war and unprecedented age of genocide.
Israel and the US are rogue terrorist states. It is no surprise that they are in league with Russia in having declared to never ratify the ICC accords. It was a grave mistake of the other western countries to continue ally with them and throughout this period. If the EU, Canada, Australia and NZ are not taking a stance now and protect the UN and in particular the ICC and ICJ any resemblance of a rule based international order will fall apart and we will fast track to WW3
As long as the most powerful nations in the world continue to flout international law and its institutions they will lack the legitimacy they so desperately need.
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