{"id":69316,"date":"2019-04-22T17:05:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T15:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=69316"},"modified":"2019-04-12T05:43:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T03:43:55","slug":"19-05-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=69316","title":{"rendered":"Airbnb will cancel its ban on West Bank settlement listings"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Airbnb will cancel its ban on West Bank settlement listings<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

BEN SALES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Moria Shapira, an Airbnb apartment owner, cleans her apartment in the Adei Ad outpost north of the Palestinian village of al-Mughayyir, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Nov. 20, 2018. (Menahem Kahana\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

(JTA) \u2014 In a reversal of a 2018 policy announcement, Airbnb will not remove West Bank settlement listings from its website.<\/span><\/p>\n

The policy change came in a court settlement Monday between the vacation rental company and a dozen American Jewish plaintiffs who had sued the company, organized by Shurat Hadin-Israel Law Center, a pro-Israel law organization. A copy of the settlement obtained by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency says that Airbnb will now allow rentals in both Palestinian areas and Israeli settlements of the West Bank.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAirbnb takes no position on the Host-Plaintiffs\u2019 claims, or others\u2019 claims, to legal title to the properties on which the accommodations are located,\u201d the court settlement reads. \u201cAll listings for accommodations located in the Affected Region [the West Bank] will at all times be permitted on its platform, subject to applicable laws, rules, and regulations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Airbnb announced in November that it would remove some 200 rental listings in West Bank settlements because it contended that the settlements \u201care at the core of the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians.\u201d The movement to boycott Israel saw the decision as a victory.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Airbnb never actually removed the listings. And about a week after the decision, Shurat Hadin organized the suit on behalf of a dozen American Jewish families, most of whom own properties in West Bank settlements. The suit was filed under the Fair Housing Act, which was meant to prevent discrimination against minorities in the United States. Because Airbnb is based in the United States, it must adhere to the act in all its listings worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs claimed that Airbnb was discriminating against them for being Jewish, given that it still allowed listings by Palestinian Muslims and Christians in the West Bank.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe policy Airbnb announced last November was abject discrimination against Jewish users of the website,\u201dNitsana Darshan-Leitner, the president of Shurat Hadin, said in a statement. \u201cWhatever one\u2019s political view, discrimination based on religious affiliation should never be the solution.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In a statement posted to its website Tuesday, Airbnb said it will donate any profits from the West Bank to humanitarian groups. It also will apply the same policy to Abkhazia and South Ossetia, two disputed territories adjacent to Georgia, and evaluate its listings in other disputed territories.<\/span><\/p>\n

Airbnb has yet to announce where it will donate the profits.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand the complexity of the issue that was addressed in our previous policy announcement, and we will continue to allow listings throughout all of the West Bank, but Airbnb will take no profits from this activity in the region,\u201d the statement reads. \u201cAny profits generated for Airbnb by any Airbnb host activity in the entire West Bank will be donated to non-profit organizations dedicated to humanitarian aid that serve people in different parts of the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Airbnb said in its statement that it does not support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAirbnb has always opposed the BDS movement,\u201d the statement reads. \u201cAirbnb has never boycotted Israel, Israeli businesses, or the more than 20,000 Israeli hosts who are active on the Airbnb platform. We have always sought to bring people together and will continue to work with our community to achieve this goal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Airbnb will cancel its ban on West Bank settlement listings BEN SALES Moria Shapira, an Airbnb apartment owner, cleans her apartment in the Adei Ad outpost north of the Palestinian village of al-Mughayyir, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Nov. 20, 2018. (Menahem Kahana\/AFP\/Getty Images) (JTA) \u2014 In a reversal of a 2018 policy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69316"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69371,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69316\/revisions\/69371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}