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The home of Lewis Weinger in the West Bank settlement of Tekoa, which has been rented out using Airbnb. (Meni Lavi)
Amnesty International has accused Airbnb of benefiting from Israeli settlements at the expense of the Palestinians, ahead of the San Francisco-based company’s long-awaited debut on the public market Thursday.
The human rights group also said the home-sharing company which appeared on a UN blacklist of firms that operate in the West Bank in February 2020 did not disclose its operations in settlements in registering for its IPO.
Airbnb allows both Palestinians and Jewish settlers in the West Bank to list their properties on its site and said last year it would give the profits from those rentals to charity.