John,

Israel’s armed forces and violent settlers are mercilessly killing Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, razing entire neighbourhoods and attacking refugee camps.

Sickeningly, travel giant Airbnb is profiting from these war crimes by renting out luxury, pool-side properties on illegal settlements to holiday-goers.

It isn’t just heinously immoral – it could also be illegal. And it ends now.

Partners have just filed first-of-its-kind legal actions against Airbnb exposing it for profiting off criminal activities. This is huge: it opens the door for similar cases to follow, with major global consequences for ALL corporations fuelling the displacement and genocide of Palestinians.

Lawsuits like this take major resources and our brilliant partners need funding to take this case all the way. So here’s the plan: with all of us chipping in we can rush our partners cash to help win this case – like when we supported their major legal action to halt the UK’s arms sales to Israel. Then we’ll keep going after corporate giants, one by one, until the entire economy propping up the genocide of Palestinians comes crumbling down.

It’s an ambitious plan, but together we can pull it off. Can you chip in to stop big business profiting off genocide and occupation?

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Under cover of its genocidal war in Gaza, Israel has ramped up its attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, killing 1,000 people since October 2023 and deploying tanks in the area for the first time in decades.

Villagers describe being “hunted” by Israeli settlers and having their homes burned. Settlers have even been given semi-automatic weapons by Israeli armed forces to carry out these state-backed war crimes.

Airbnb is normalising these atrocities. There are over 300 Airbnb properties on land that was brutally ripped from Palestinians – even after the world’s highest court stated that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands is illegal.

Airbnb knows what it’s doing is reprehensible because it already committed back in 2018 to “act responsibly”  and remove all listings on illegally occupied territory – before backtracking just a few months later.

But pressure is building on businesses with blood on their hands. The UN just released a historic report exposing the economy of genocide and it’s damningly clear: doing business with Israel’s illegal occupation directly fuels its system of apartheid and ongoing genocide against Palestinians.

Right now, we have a real chance of making an example of Airbnb. Our partners are working flat-out on an unprecedented case to hold this travel behemoth accountable for handling cash linked to proceeds of crime – otherwise known as money laundering. But building a watertight case is time-consuming, expensive work and they’re asking for our help to take it all the way.

Every single action we take together brings us closer to ending the violence and winning justice for Palestinians. Together, we can be part of a groundswell to finally stop corporate giants from fueling Israel’s occupation and genocide. Chip in today to fund this legal case and more work for Palestine:

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