Google removes app that helps people boycott pro-Israel companies
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NoThanks was temporarily suspended from the Google Play app store due to a line in its description speaking about Israel.

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.

  • Jonna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    102·
    1 year ago

    There are covenants all through Israel that forbid travel and residency by “full citizens” Palestinians of Israeli citizenship. There are separate schools. Do we not remember “separate is not equal”?

    • LaLiLuLuCoEnglish
      611·
      1 year ago

      Most schools are integrated. There’s no seperate busses or restrictions.

      America has issues with home owners associations too. It also has religious schools. Ever hear about redlining or looking at a ethnicity map of a city like Chicago or Detroit?

      Israeli Arab travel is not restricted inside of Israel. You are probably thinking of the west bank.

      Btw Israeli jews aren’t allowed into parts of the west bank and Jerusalem either.

      • SulaymanF@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        That’s nice excuse making. There’s YouTube videos of Israeli bus drivers refusing to take Palestinian passengers.

        HOAs in America are private contracts but the Knesset passed The Admissions Committees Law (2011) which allows hundreds of small towns built on state land to select applicants based on their “social suitability”. The law is used in practice to filter out Israeli Arabs and members of other marginalized groups. The fact that the government does this is much much worse than an HOA.

    • LaLiLuLuCoEnglish
      512·
      1 year ago

      Here’s a very real lived experience for you: anyone can go to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the 2nd most holy Jewish site with a security check. Anyone can go to the major Christian sites. Only Muslims are officially allowed to go to the Temple Mount, the first most holy Jewish site.

      • SulaymanF@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’ve been to Israel multiple times. Israeli Arabs are not allowed at the western wall and are turned away by security. I can introduce you to some of you don’t believe me.

        And the Temple Mount is under the control of the Jordanian government by Israeli treaty and the Israeli military isn’t letting people in, even most rabbis have said the Mount is off limits to Jews. Not that that’s stopped extemeists from going there. The Israeli military also often bans Muslims under age 60 from visiting so you’re not special.