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Amnesty urges world's leading digital tourism companies to end listings in Israeli settlements
Source: Washington Post
Amnesty urges world’s leading digital tourism companies to end listings in Israeli settlements
By Ruth Eglash January 30 at 9:57 AM
JERUSALEM — Amnesty International’s demand that four of the world’s leading digital travel companies stop listing Israeli hotels and attractions in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem was fiercely attacked as anti-Semitic on Wednesday by Israeli leaders, who said it was another attempt to deny Jewish heritage and delegitimize Israel.
A new report by the rights group focuses on Booking.com, Expedia, TripAdvisor and Airbnb, calling the online platforms complicit in human rights abuses for listing rooms and activities in Israeli settlements, which are built on land that Israel captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Palestinians hope that the disputed land, including East Jerusalem, will one day become part of a future Palestinian state. They say the settlements, and efforts to bolster tourism to them, will end up “normalizing” the Israeli occupation.
“Renting out a room in someone’s home in a settlement is not harmless,” said Mark Dummett, a business and human rights researcher at Amnesty International. “Providing these listing and profiting from these listings contributes to sustaining the settlements and profiting from human rights violations.”
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By Ruth Eglash January 30 at 9:57 AM
JERUSALEM — Amnesty International’s demand that four of the world’s leading digital travel companies stop listing Israeli hotels and attractions in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem was fiercely attacked as anti-Semitic on Wednesday by Israeli leaders, who said it was another attempt to deny Jewish heritage and delegitimize Israel.
A new report by the rights group focuses on Booking.com, Expedia, TripAdvisor and Airbnb, calling the online platforms complicit in human rights abuses for listing rooms and activities in Israeli settlements, which are built on land that Israel captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Palestinians hope that the disputed land, including East Jerusalem, will one day become part of a future Palestinian state. They say the settlements, and efforts to bolster tourism to them, will end up “normalizing” the Israeli occupation.
“Renting out a room in someone’s home in a settlement is not harmless,” said Mark Dummett, a business and human rights researcher at Amnesty International. “Providing these listing and profiting from these listings contributes to sustaining the settlements and profiting from human rights violations.”
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/01/30/amnesty-urges-worlds-leading-digital-tourism-companies-end-listings-israeli-settlements/