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| BDS Hijacks Barcode App To Boycott Israel, Says Unhappy Author | |
| 2014-08-12 | |
| [IsraelTimes] Like a monster escaping from its creator, an app designed to enhance social activism has been adopted to boycott Israel. Frank Pardo, a California native who developed the app has watched unhappily as the BDS crowd discovered his Buycott app, a mobile phone bar-code scanner app that checks the social provenance of products. "It caught us a little off guard, but unless we change our policy and remove all country boycotts — including the ones of Qatar and Iran — there's little we can do," said Pardo. Some consumers are doing it for him, turning the "boycott Israel" campaign on its head by using it to find Israeli products to buy. Pardo is a supporter of Israel, although he admits that he is not all that familiar with the arguments on both sides of the conflict. "It bothers me that a lot of people are downloading Buycott and thinking that it was written specifically to boycott Israel," said Pardo. "It was not, and to counter that notion I have been actively encouraging pro-Israel groups to start campaigns supporting Israel. My focus has been on US-based issues," such as checking if a product is made with genetically modified components.
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