The popular vacation accommodation website Airbnb has banned Israeli Jews who live in Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank, from listing their homes for rent.
Airbnb said in a statement it “concluded that we should remove listings in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank that are at the core of the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians.”
Michael Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States, called Airbnb’s policy anti-Semitic.
“Airbnb blacklists Jewish apartments in Judea and Samaria – not Palestinian apartments, not apartments in Turkish occupied Cyprus, in Moroccan occupied Sahara, not in Tibet or the Crimea,” Oren tweeted....