JERUSALEM POST
Airbnb: Feeble excuses for blatant bigotry
by Peggy Shapiro
December 5, 2018

Airbnb is defending its decision to delist properties owned by Israelis/Jews in Judea/Samaria (West Bank) with their defense as feeble as their decision is bigoted. As a college professor for 31 years, I have heard my fair share of flawed logic and lame excuses, but never as ludicrous as those offered by Airbnb, a company with aspirations of earning the necessary investor trust to launch an IPO and go public in the next few months. In a recent interview, Airbnb spokesman Chris Lehane said, with a straight face, that Airbnb’s exclusion of Jewish homes, and only Jewish homes, isn’t antisemitic or anti-Israel because the company doesn’t discriminate against all Jews. READ MORE