Airbnb faces more anti-anti-Semitic boycotts

Airbnb, the international anti-Semitic rental marketplace, is facing yet another backlash for its Hamasshole-esque decision last week to no longer list Jewish-owned properties in theWest Bank. Now the city of Beverly Hills unanimously passed a resolution that calls their anti-Semitism "discriminatory," according to a report on Sunday by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

The resolution described Airbnb's new policy "antithetical to the values that we hold dear in Beverly Hills,” and said that the decision reflected “hatred, prejudice, ignorance and hypocrisy.”

The resolution stated that “prejudice and discrimination based on religion have no place in our community, country and world.”

The resolution said that the City of Beverly Hills opposed Airbnb’s “discriminatory decision to remove all listings in Jewish settlements in the West Bank,” and called on Airbnb to “correct this act of disrespect to the land of Israel and restore its original services immediately.”

If Airbnb does not reverse its decision, the city called “upon all civilized people across the globe to boycott Airbnb until such time as they desist from these despicable anti-Semitic actions.”

In a statement released on behalf of Beverly Hills, Mayor Julian Gold called Airbnb’s action “deplorable, and stated the resolution “reflects the City Council’s ongoing commitment to Israel and to exposing hatred anywhere it exists.”

Vice Mayor John Mirisch also added that, “Airbnb is not welcome in Beverly Hills as long as its policies are based on anti-Jewish double standards.”

These are what Hamassholes look like

Legal scholar, Prof. Eugene Kontorovich, a professor at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia School of Law, illustrated the double standard in an op ed published Monday in The Wall Street Journal.

Kontorovich wrote:

“Airbnb lists homes in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, one of the world’s most brutal occupations. It lists vacation homes in northern Cyprus, which Turkey invaded, expelling almost all Greek Cypriots and expropriating their homes. Nor does Airbnb have a problem serving Kashmir, Tibet and other such places,” 

Kontorovich noted that the Kohelet Policy Forum, which he directs, recently released a report delineating that many companies operate in these other areas subject to territorial dispute without being subjected to the pressure Airbnb was subjected to over its presence in the West Bank.

At first,  Airbnb rejected pressure to delist Jewish properties in the West Bank. However, it reversed itself when it was named in a Human Rights Watch report for those listings. It also may be included in a United Nations Human Rights Council blacklist of companies doing business with Jews in the West Bank. And as it is commonly known, the U.N. is a joke and one of the most anti-Semitic agencies on the globe.

The pressure that likely compelled the company to cave to the anti-Zionist, anti-Semitic boycott, according to Kontorovich, “underscores the need for Congress to pass the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, which would bar U.S. firms from complying with U.N. boycotts of Israel, like they’re already prohibited from adhering to the Arab League’s boycott.”

Americans need to remember who our ally is in the Middle East, a country that is the only democracy in existence there, and who is surrounded by countries that seek its demise, not because of anything they did, but because they're Jews living there.

As President Trump might say, Airbnb should be ashamed of itself.


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