While I’m generally skeptical of boycotts, BDS scares the shit out of Israel. Because I do believe if BDS becomes a global movement it really could change things. I’ll start with the list from bdsmovement.net and then add to the list as people list other companies to boycott in the comments:

Hewlett-Packard (computer hardware)

Siemens (tech conglomerate)

AXA (banking & insurance)

Puma (clothing)

Israeli fruits and vegetables (usually labeled)

SodaStream (idk that garbage home soda)

Ahava (cosmetics)

Sabra (hummus)

  • SexMachineStalin [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Woolworth’s. Overpriced as fuck grocery store chain in South Africa that’s been pretty open about supporting Pissnotreal. Also everything costs like four times as much. There’s literally zero reason to step in one, except to steal/loot or burn it down.

    Also the former Isn’treali ambassador to South Africa, Arthur Lenk was endorsing Woolies on Facebook around 2014-15, legit “buy these overpriced as fuck cherries in a small-arse cup for R60 ZAR because they’re made in genocidal-apartheid-ethnostate”.

    • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Or make it yourself. Ridiculously easy and tastes way better. I recommend trying it with serrano pepper and garlic.

  • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Could this also be a thread for alternatives?

    For example, I picked up a thrift store sodastream a while back because it’s seemingly almost the only working brand that just makes fizzy water fast, and certainly the only one with enough market penetration to be ending up in thrift stores. (I actually had a whole setup with a keg and a CO2 tank before but it sucked to use and the water wasn’t that fizzy.)

    I haven’t been able to use it since it ran out of gas, because I refuse to buy a replacement canister from sodastream. Any knockoffs available? I remember not being able to find any. If I had like 4 of the canisters I’d just refill them myself using dry ice but its a pain to buy pelletized dry ice in that small of quantity to do just 1.

    • Sickos [they/them, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I cannot comprehend that you moved FROM the keg setup to a soda stream. Do you still have the keg/CO2 tank? You can get soda bottle adapters that will let you do a smaller quantity. You should be able to make 2L in under a minute if you shake violently.

      You also can get bulk tank adapter hoses for the sodastream, if you really like that format.

      Edit: I was being rude and it was uncalled for

      • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        1 year ago

        lost the co2 tank in a move somehow. really dont know where it went, I was befuddled

        the rest of it I eventually got rid of. even with the water chilled (which is pretty inconvenient compared to instant carbonation at any temp) I couldn’t get strong carbonation even after shaking the thing for several mins which was a chore because it was a 1.75 gal mini keg. and nothing seemed to make it much better, lower temp or higher pressure or leaving it sit pressurized. Sodastream just worked, didnt require shaking or prechilling. If I hadnt lost the tank I would have eventually tried a different setup with a soapstone or whatever its called

        no worries on the rudeness.

        • piccolo [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          7 months ago

          I’m suuuuuuper late to the party (is necrobumping a thing here? If so sorry!) but one tip for this setup is to not fill the bottles all the way. If you have a bit more headspace in the bottle, it’s more effective to shake it and more CO2 dissolves in my experience.

          Beyond that, having a high enough pressure for the part going into the bottle is important. I normally use 45 psi or so and that gets me the right kind of prickly water for my tastebuds.

          I know you said you don’t have it anymore, but just in case you wanna try again at any point in the future or just for people reading this, figured this might be useful.

          • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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            7 months ago

            I dont think necroposting is really a thing people care about here, no

            idk what the issue was with my setup. water not cold enough perhaps, but it didnt seem to matter much when I did try it fully chilled… the keg had a fill line that I roughly observed. always was too much work for a substandard result.

  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    i dont have much (or anything?) from these corps but I think boycott part of BDS is pretty difficult to achieve at a large scale. For example, Intel makes (some) of its chips in Israel (not in West Bank though).

    I think sanctions are the best way to hurt Israel. Capitalists don’t care much about ethics of investment. The state has to force them to stop.

      • Maoo [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        1 year ago

        The boycott is really more about building awareness, as libs understand boycotts as a political tool and it’s an excuse to table and talk to them.

        Projecting that we do care about it is important for achieving that.

  • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    pretty obscure but CompuLabs, a manufacturer of industrial/embedded PCs and modules. (One of which is in the Perseverance mars rover…)

    They’re based in Yokneam, IL. Per wikipedia:

    Yokneam was built on the lands of a Palestinian Arab village named Qira, depopulated in the lead up to the 1948 Arab–Israeli war.

    I guess the village just did that. On its own.