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Airbnb reverses on delisting Israeli settlements, won’t profit off West Bank
By: Dan Williams, Brendan Pierson, Reuters, April 9, 2019:
JERUSALEM/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Airbnb said on Tuesday it would not implement a planned delisting of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and would donate proceeds from any bookings in the territory to international humanitarian aid organizations.
Story continues below advertisementHeeding calls from Palestinians who want the West Bank for a future state, Airbnb had said in November it would remove the listings of some 200 settlement homes.
That decision was deplored by Israel and challenged in some U.S. jurisdictions.
Announcing a resolution of lawsuits brought against it, Airbnb said it “will not move forward with implementing the removal of listings in the West Bank from the platform.”
“But Airbnb will take no profits from this activity in the region,” said a statement posted on the company website, implying the new policy would not distinguish between settlement listings and Palestinian listings in the West Bank.
“Any profits generated for Airbnb … will be donated to non-profit organizations dedicated to humanitarian aid that serve people in different parts of the world.”
There was no immediate reaction from Israeli or Palestinian officials.Most world powers view Israel’s construction of settlements on occupied land as a violation of international law, and Palestinians say it is wrong for companies to profit from them.
“Airbnb’s disappointing decision appears to reverse their stance to fully respect rights,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement. “By continuing to do business in settlements, they remain complicit in the abuses settlements trigger.”
Airbnb was sued over its proposed delisting of West Bank apartments last November in Jerusalem District Court and, separately, in a U.S. federal courts in Delaware and California.
The Israeli lawsuit, a class action, accused the company of “outrageous discrimination” and demanded monetary damages.
The Delaware lawsuit accused Airbnb of violating U.S. housing discrimination law by “redlining” Jewish-owned properties while letting Muslims and Christians continue to use the company’s service. The California lawsuit made similar claims.
The Shurat HaDin Law Center in Israel, which was involved in the U.S. lawsuit against Airbnb, called the company’s about-face “a powerful defeat for the anti-Israel boycott movement.”
“The policy Airbnb announced last November was abject discrimination against Jewish users of the website,” Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, one of the lawyers in the U.S. case, said in a statement. “We commend Airbnb for recognizing that it had landed on the wrong side of this issue and changing the policy.”
Lawyers for the California plaintiffs could not immediately be reached.
Airbnb has denied that its West Bank delisting plan had targeted Israel in general. “Airbnb has never boycotted Israel, Israeli businesses, or the more than 20,000 Israeli hosts who are active on the Airbnb platform”, the company statement said.
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14 Comments
5 years ago
5 years ago
sue them out of existence everytime they shut down conservative free speech and promote Left/.islam agenda.
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Left/jihadis are organised and that is why they push their agenda and get away with it as there often no pushback
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
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5 years ago
Support freedom, support the civilized society.
5 years ago
Reply to
Phil McDonald
You must be a muzzie troll? You should edify yourself with ALL of the parameters before publicly embarrassing yourself and attacking Pamela as you have just done. AirBnB is filing their submission to go “Public” this year. Ergo, they will be subject to the “Public Trade Laws” currently extant. In order to trade publicly they will be required to greatly restrict their vicious, malicious, destructive hate for Jews and ALL religions and ALL minorities. Their decision is strictly based on avarice and greed and corruption and hypocrisy and has nothing to do with being sincerely “repentant”. Any hope for “future” stock market gains would be virtually non existent had they chosen to continue with their anti Semitic racism, considering that they would have lost the law suit anyway. The Law Suit filed against them was merely to level the playing field, plain and simple.
5 years ago
Who cares if they reverse the ban? The executives of AirBnB have already shown their hand and it’s antisemitic. Just like Coca-Cola and Subway they’ll never be getting my business.
5 years ago
Reply to
dad1927
I disagree, I think the Dem0nrat party has become the neo-Ikhwan party (aka. the muslum brotherhood).
5 years ago
They’ve shown their true colors, shun them like the sewer rats they are…
5 years ago
AIRBNB should be banned perpetually from Israel.
Now that we know where its anti Semitic heart lies.
5 years ago
OK!
5 years ago
Woo hoo! Yes! Yes! Yes! Okay read the comments and realize it’s a victory in name only, but it is a victory. The haters haven’t completely corrupted the judicial system…yet.
5 years ago
“Airbnb” or Aryanbnb?
