Airbnb isn’t boycotting Israel Rob Gloster quotes Gerald Steinberg as saying that Airbnb’s announcement it was delisting 200 property listings in West Bank settlements was “a turning point for the BDS movement (“Airbnb case could set BDS precedent — one way or the other”). Nowhere in the article is the critical point made that this…
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