“Airbnb and Booking.com accused in France over Israeli settlement listings”, 16 October 2025

In the case submitted in Paris, the Ligue des droits de l'Homme (LDH) alleges that the platforms were complicit in the aggravated concealment of war crimes.

'These multinational companies, by offering their services and provisions, enable and facilitate, both directly and indirectly, the creation... and the expansion of Israeli settlements,’ said the group's lawyer, Patrick Baudouin.

The settlements, which have expanded since Israel occupied the West Bank in 1967, are considered illegal under international law...

Airbnb does not specify that the properties offered for rent are located in Palestinian territory. Instead, it only names the settlement, without indicating that it is one. Booking.com mentions that the accommodation is in Israeli settlements and is ‘in Palestine’.

Places of interest for tourists and how far they are away from the rental properties are mentioned, which helps ‘to sustain occupation tourism,’ said Baudouin.

There was no immediate response from Airbnb and Booking.com when contacted by AFP.…

Airbnb announced in November 2018 the removal of rental listings in Israeli settlements in the West Bank. But the listings were reinstated in April the following year, after lawsuits in Israel and the United States, where Jewish Americans accused it of religious discrimination...

Other legal complaints against Booking.com have been issued in the Netherlands, and against Airbnb in Ireland, the UK and the United States.