Hi all,

Just wondering if r/Ireland would be able to provide some insight into other products produced or associated with Israel that we might not know about?

Is there anyway the r/Ireland mods could create a megathread so that people can share items that are associated with Israel or produced in Israel?

This boycott really could hit them where it hurts and force them to consider their genocide of the Palestinian people, just like the sanctions and boycotts worked in South Africa.

Thanks in advance.

by DuncanGabble

50 comments

  2. If you want to know what brands to boycott and the reason why look them up on whattoboycott.org

  4. I’m gonna buy them dates tomorrow, thanks for the heads up

  6. So am I to boycott the dates in Lidl or boycott Lidl??

  10. Apple, Google, Samsung, Huawei, Intel, HP all have centres in Israel

    Best get rid of anything using their tech or products

    Can’t fly Ryanair cos Boeing provide weapons to Israel, and Ryanair is still paying for their new jets

    Can’t take prescription drugs because they’re likely Teva as they’re usually the cheapest

    Israel like it or not is a global tech and medical power – making this reddit post used Israeli tech. You can try avoid the easy things like SodaStream or Puma clothes but in reality you won’t give up israeli owned/ designed products

    A more comprehensive list is on the BDS website, tho they focus on the companies rather than products themselves

  12. If they have removed the country of origin they are in breach of EU food safety regulation. So I doubt they’ve done that

  14. Thank you so much for this. I fully support the boycott. ):

  16. Fucking dates? Are people seriously at that point of clinging onto purpose, that they’re considering boycotting fucking dates?

  17. First, I was too ugly to get a date for free.

    Now they want me to stop paying for them?

  20. I don’t care that they’re from Israel but pretty sure it’s illegal to not have country of origin on them. Should be a recall with fsai.

  21. Thanks for this. Obviously it’s difficult to avoid the stores however I certainly won’t be buying this product if it comes directly from those nazis

  22. Israel is clearly in the wrong now and has been for a while, Hamas obviously has to be crushed but they’ve gone too far, it’s just slaughter now… having said that it’s of no consequence to me if they all kill each other way over there in the desert and it’s not gonna affect what I buy.

    That much stuff comes from Israel I doubt you could realistically avoid it anyway as someone has already pointed out.

  23. All Monkey nuts in supermarkets have removed the origin from the Halloween season and it’s been like this for years now. I stopped buying them – I used to prefer the ones we used to get with potentially loads of peanuts per pod. Now we only get the unlabelled shite with two or three peanuts per pod and they taste bland.

  24. Don’t use whatsapp and waze because they were developed in Israel, also dont use google maps because it shares data with waze and therefore inevitably supports the occupation.

  25. This is how you might be able to identify where a product has come from once we can find out what the identity number code is for Israel.

    —- The first six numbers of the barcode is the manufacturer’s identification number. The next five digits represent the item’s product code. ➢ The last number is called a check digit which enables the scanner to determine if the barcode was scanned correctly.

  26. Drove through the falls Rd to work the other day, some amount of Puma gear on show I thought you’s were boycotting that too.

  27. The original post got 110k impressions if Im not reading it wrong.

    If 20% of those people stop buying dates in lidl, if 2% stop shopping there all together, it will make a lidl bit of difference in fairness.

    Its the publicity that matter with these things more than anything though really.

    I doubt Pernod Richard lost a fortune when people boycotted Jameson for it being sold in Russia. But it was the bad publicity that was going on that they couldn’t stand, so they stopped.

  29. Dieter Schwartz, the founder’s son and the owner of the company who owns Lidl, is a massive investor in Israeli tech companies

  30. Don’t buy the dates and sit back and watch the Israeli Military Industry collapse and Palestine become free

  31. Boycotts like this don’t work, as someone who thinks what Israel is doing is horrific (but please don’t use the term ‘Nazis’ to describe the actions of the Israeli government) you need governments to enforce boycotts.

    Even then the effect is often minimal as big business will always look for a way round. Even then you’d need to get the USA on board which makes up more of its trading percentage than the next four countries combined.

    Not buying Dates maybe the right thing to do (in some eyes) but will not make one iota of difference.

  32. Regular Citizens in Israel are not responsible for the War. Why punish some persons business, if they have got nothing to do with the war. You do realise that the citizens have no say in what the government decides, just like our Citizens have no say in what our government is at with the housing crisis, removing funding from health services etc.

    It is time to start looking at humanity as a whole and realising it’s not the innocent citizens on both sides that are to blame but their government.
    Before you say Israeli people are doing nothing about it, plenty of them have protested only to be silenced and some of the loved ones of the hostages taken by Hamas have publicly criticised their own government and armed forces.

    Boycotting a packet of dates is not going to solve the war. Human empathy and compassion for the innocent victims in both countries should be in the Ireland sub and in threads. Most of the workers in the fruit factories in Israel are refugees, foreigners, poor families who need the work. Boycotting their livelihood is creating more problems imho.

  33. One of the co-founders of Reddit has an Israeli origin. Boycott Reddit too

  34. Our own country is falling apart and your emailing *ucking lidl about dates like cop on ta fuck

  36. Noticing some brand new accounts with zero previous comments in here supporting Israel and questioning people who wish to boycott. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.right?

  38. Some amount of head banger replies you’re getting. You’re clearly just trying to live by honourable principles. Not sure why that offends so many dickheads in this sub.

  41. If they stuck a label on things saying “this product supports Israeli bombs” I’d buy trolleys of them.

    Those hamas fuckers need bombed into the last ice age. And so do the fuckers supporting them.

  42. If the world allows geopolitical grievances to dictate what we should/should not do in our daily lives to this extent we may as well get in the bin now as pulling that thread will have no end. It will just move from conflict to conflict to conflict until we have tied ourselves up in knots.

  43. I don’t buy or eat dates anyway but people have a right to know where their food is coming from so removing that information is messed up and I hope they don’t get away with it.

  44. Are you guys ‘boycotting’ products consistently or just when it’s trending?

  45. At this rate people can’t really shop for groceries anywhere though.

  46. Sorry guys you’ll all have to give up Christmas because that was made in Israel. I am very smart.

  47. Thanks OP.

    I like a date and shop at Lidl so will be avoiding these.

    If a boycott was good enough for apartheid South Africa; its good enough for apartheid Israel.

  49. Listen, nothing to do with the conflict or any of the other factors of the whole situation.

    If you have the time to query why they’ve taken the country of origin off a packet of dates in a supermarket, you have too much time on your hands.

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