Well yes, if you can afford to boycott airbnb clearly you could do so.
And AirBnB is all around the world so I’m sure there is plenty of illegal things to rent on Airbnb. They just look the other way.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
If the issue is stolen land, then shouldn’t we be boycotting these platforms until they are out of non-native USA and Canada? Doesn’t that make up thousands of times more of their business?
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 5 weeks ago
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Land disputes tend to end when an agreement is reached between natives and colonizers or the colonizers murder so many natives that there are no people to claim the land of their ancestors.
America and Canada mostly fall in the second category. The natives have struck a peace deal and gained reservations but instead of demanding all the land back they are (rightfully) asking for financial compensation.
What differs it from Israel is that Israel is actively doing the ethnic cleansing and genocide in the present. And there is no peace treaty made which the Palestinians have accepted.
Unless Palestinians agree to a deal they have the right over all the land back. From the river to the sea.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Would you also ask airbnb to delist homes in East Jerusalem owned by Palestinian Israelis? Or is it only Jewish Israelis that should be boycotted?
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Only the colonists naturally.
agavaa@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I love how they stopped prodding once you got straight to the point and they didn’t know what to say.
DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
You want to know what would stop that kind of thinking?
Ending apartheid
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Great, what would that look like? Other than buzz words, what specific policies would you like to see changed?
Presently Israel is about 20% Palestinians, who have passports, study and teach in the same universities, vote, serve in the government, serve in the highest levels of the Judiciary, have guaranteed rights to practice their religion freely, educate children in their family’s language, etc. Please let me know if you would like sources for any of this. I’m happy to provide them.