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Airbnb faces multi-Jurisdictional legal actions over alleged profiting from rentals in illegal Israeli settlements
" Airbnb Needs an ‘Illegal Settlement’ Filter, Now", 10 June 2025 Airbnb has listings all over the world, including, according to a group of human rights organizations, ones in Israel’s illegal settlements within the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The groups say those rentals violate a promise once made by the company to remove listings in the region and may amount to the company profiting from war crimes.
Airbnb is facing multi-jurisdictional legal actions from human rights groups who allege the company profits from illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The groups claim that there are currently over 300 properties listed for rent on Airbnb that are part of Israel’s settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which have been deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice. Those continued actions in Ireland are now part of a multi-jurisdictional effort, as GLAN and Al-Haq have lodged a criminal complaint with the UK’s National Crime Agency against Airbnb over alleged money laundering charges related to the company’s collection of payments for rentals in the Israeli settlements.
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