An international coalition of pro-Palestinian groups is demanding that the online vacation rental company Airbnb immediately stop listing properties in West Bank Israeli settlements. The groups, which include Jewish Voice for Peace and the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, made the demands in a petition delivered to Airbnb offices in London, Paris, San…
Want to stay in a possibly dangerous and unauthorized Israeli settlement? Even if you don’t, you might accidentally. Airbnb was by opponents of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank for listing homes there and not properly labeling them. It turns out that those looking for a quiet neighborhood right outside either Tel Aviv or…
Palestinian leaders and their supporters are criticizing Airbnb for allowing West Bank settlement homeowners to lease their homes as vacation rentals through the website. Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat sent a letter to the company’s CEO last week demanding it stop doing business with settlers, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. Many if not most settlers…
Nearly three-quarters of the New York City listings of private homes for rent on Airbnb, a popular online marketplace, violate state zoning and sublet laws, the state’s attorney general said on Thursday. Commercial users are also illegally using the website to run multi-million-dollar, large-scale rental operations, according to a report by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman….
Who could have possibly imagined that letting perfect strangers into your plush Chelsea apartment could result in utter disaster? Jewish comedian Ari Teman found out the hard way when he came home to an “XXX Freak Fest” in the New York City apartment he had rented out on Airbnb. According to Buzzfeed, someone named David…
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