In a blatant act of anti-Semitism the San Francisco-headquartered company Airbnb has targeted Jews living in Judea and Samaria with a boycott. They have joined the Boycott, Divestment, Sanction (BDS) Movement against Israeli Jews. The former Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren stated in a recent Twitter post: "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."
This comes in the same week over 500 missiles were fired from Gaza at Jewish homes, schools, hospitals and businesses. Whether it is terrorism or boycotts, media bias or by any other method this is rooted in hatred of the Jews. Anti-Semitism often masquerades as sympathy for the Palestinian people, yet those who hold such views ignore the stated intentions of both Fatah and Hamas, the two main Palestinian political parties. Their charters still call for all Jews to be removed permanently from the Holy Land. If there is no room for Jewish people in the land in which they have dwelt for over three-thousand-years then where on this planet may they live? Airbnb’s decision to target Jewish Israelis is in effect, economic warfare.
I will not be doing business with Airbnb, a great company that has chosen to allow hatred to guide their choices.
