Apple has pulled an app that enabled French users to look through a database of celebrities and public figures and identify whether or not they are Jewish.
The app was taken down after drawing protests from a French anti-racism group, SOS Racisme, which said that Apple should be more careful about which apps it approves for sale on its Apple Store France.
The app topped the most-downloaded list, and the group questioned whether the app violated France’s laws about compiling personal information without consent, the Associated Press reported.
Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr told the Wall Street Journal that the company has pulled the app because it “violates local law.”
The application is still available for download in the U.S. App Store, for $1.99.
According to the Journal report, the app was created by a Franco-British developer who identifies as Jewish. “I often ask myself whether this or that celebrity is Jewish or not,” Johann Levy told the paper.
(Source: Washington Post)
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This app should only offend self-loathing Jews. The rest of us wear our sobriquet as a badge of honor.
Yes, we wear it willingly. Those who do not should not have a yellow star pinned to their jacket. And there certainly should not be a “Jew database” in everyone’s pocket.
Why aren’t they wondering which celebrities are catholic? This application is not only offensive and questionable, but potentially dangerous in the wrong hands. Anyone who believes otherwise is clearly ignorant.