Google has reinstated a popular mobile phone app designed to help people boycott companies linked to Israel, days after it was removed from its Play store. allows users to scan the barcodes of products or enter their name to find out if the item is linked to Israel.

According to developers, the app was removed because a sentence in the description read: “Welcome to No Thanks, here you can see if the product in your hand supports killing children in Palestine or not.”

On 3 December, Google reinstated the app to its Play Store with a new description reading: “Our app simplifies the process of scanning barcodes and searching for products that are listed for the boycott movement.”

Launched on 13 November, No Thanks was downloaded over 100,000 times before it was removed from Play store on 30 November.

According to No Thanks, the app was developed by Ahmed Bashbash, who lives in Hungary and describes himself as a Palestinian from Gaza. Bashbash stated that he lost his brother “in this massacre” – and his sister in 2020 because she was deprived of medical support. A version designed for Apple products has been developed and is currently under review.

Source: The Middle East Eye