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‘It’s like stealing’: Palestinian family’s seized property listed on Booking.com
(www.theguardian.com)
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Whether you allow listing properties on Booking.com or not, it isn't "deciding where someone can or cannot travel." People traveled the world for thousands of years before Booking.com existed. What a shitty rebuttal.
Wowzer, booking.com fucking sucks I guess
both booking.com and airbnb.
Add them to the list of collaborators.
This ain't going to go well for them. Lotta hate for Israel and companies that support their crimes.
It's a rebuttal where people had meetings about first to ensure it was as bland and non offensive to anyone, where "anyone" basically is the shareholders, Israel, and you know, try to be as inoffensive as possible to Palestinians and the rest of the world, but fuck them anyway because we'll just continue doing this
How are they to determine that the property has been stolen? Or do you want them to exit the entire country? Because I'd argue that the latter does make travel more expensive.
How do they determine that any property belongs to the host? Exiting the entire country doesnt sound like a bad idea in this case.
What's your actual argument for travel being more expensive if Booking.com doesn't host stolen property?
I mean usually if you can reliably let guests in, you're the owner or work for the owner. Palestine is a very special case in this regard.
Given that they can't really reliably check what property is stolen in Israel or Palestine, the alternative is to exit the entire country. Having only hotels and no airbnb style housing (if both booking and airbnb leave) means travel to that country or inside it gets more expensive.
But by stretching that logic, they should also exit eastern Europe. Not every family got back the homes that the soviet union stole the inhabitants were shipped off to Siberia. Or really, they should exit the entire world, as you can scam people out of their property basically anywhere. Just have an old person sign over the deed in exchange for promises you'll never keep.
But essentially if they exit an entire country, that absolutely IS the same as saying people shouldn't travel there. Which in the case of Israel I'd agree with, but most companies don't want to take political stances since you'll piss of a bunch of people no matter what, especially since half the western world has been brainwashed into thinking anti-zionism = anti-semitism. Hence what the CEO said about not saying where people should or shouldn't travel.