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The Marriott hotel chain has plans to compete with Airbnb in the home-rental market with a new business launching in the coming year.

TEL AVIV – With post-election fever grabbing all the headlines, the sensational story of Airbnb’s total capitulation to demands that it reverse its policy banning Jewish listings in the West Bank has almost slipped under the radar. 

A Canadian “Instagram influencer” is facing criminal charges after a video showed her allegedly tossing a chair off of an apartment’s balcony 45 stories up from a busy street in downtown Toronto.

Last week, Amnesty International came out with a viciously antisemitic report demanding that online tourism websites boycott Jewish sites in the Holy Land.

TEL AVIV — Amnesty International, a British-based NGO that has received financing from billionaire activist George Soros, has advocated the boycott of tourism in West Bank Israeli communities as well as eastern Jerusalem.

Gov. Ron DeSantis and the State Board of Administration voted Tuesday to sanction Airbnb for its decision not to list properties in Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The vote made Airbnb the first American company to be placed on a “scrutinized” list of businesses that boycott Israel.

Amnesty International told digital tourism sites Wednesday that listings from Israeli settlements in the West Bank should be immediately banned.

TEL AVIV – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday ordered state officials to boycott Airbnb when conducting state business and said he would make the vacation rental giant “feel the heat” unless it walks back its decision banning rentals in Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

(JNS) — Evangelical leaders sent a letter on Monday to Airbnb, slamming its decision to remove listings in Judea and Samaria.

NEW YORK — A series of statements on Monday have worked to confuse Airbnb’s Mideast policies, with the company claiming to oppose the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement while still singling out Jewish West Bank homes for boycott.

TEL AVIV – A group of American Jews have sued Airbnb in a U.S. Federal Court on Wednesday over charges that the vacation rental giant’s new policy of barring Israeli apartments in the West Bank constitutes religious discrimination.

Israel’s minister in charge of combating boycott efforts against the Jewish state is urging US states to take steps against booking website Airbnb, after it decided to de-list accommodations in Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Airbnb’s partial boycott of Israel last week came just as the Arab world, Africa, and Eastern Europe moved closer to the Jewish state.

Four attorneys filed a class action suit against Airbnb in Jerusalem District Court on Thursday to protest the US-based company’s decision to drop listings in West Bank settlements from its vacation rental website that hosts ads from 191 countries.

TEL AVIV – A song called “Delete Airbnb” composed by a Jerusalem-based band in protest over the vacation rental giant’s decision to delist Israeli-owned properties in the West Bank went viral before being removed by Facebook without an explanation, the band has claimed.

Speaking in an interview with Breitbart News, Dani Dayan, Israel’s Consul General in New York, slammed Airbnb’s decision to delist Israeli West Bank homes as a “discriminatory decision with anti-Semitic flavor.”

TEL AVIV – Airbnb could find itself sanctioned with a special tax over its decision remove all of its 200 listings located in Israeli settlements, Israel’s Tourism Minister said Tuesday. 

Human Right Watch, an organization massively financed by billionaire activist George Soros, is urging vacation giant Booking.com to immediately cease listing Israeli homes in the West Bank.

Airbnb has fueled the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement when the company announced on Monday that it will cease to list Israeli homes in the West Bank.

A new report claims that Facebook’s latest hack, which affected up to 50 million users, could also impact Facebook-linked apps such as Instagram, Airbnb, and Tinder.

An “alarming number” of Airbnb’s “lack basic safety protections,” including smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, fire extinguishers, and first aid kits, according to a report.

A 67-year-old New York woman has “won” the right to stay in a late friend’s rent-controlled apartment in Long Island — because he adopted her at age 58.

Danny Glover was shouted down at a rally for Airbnb hosts Tuesday in the New York state Capitol when activists working on behalf of a union for hotel workers infiltrated the event and began heckling the 71-year-old actor.

Top-tier venture capitalist Peter Thiel is ditching the intolerance of Silicon Valley and moving himself and his personal investment arm to Los Angeles for better business opportunities.

AirBnB has promised to invest $100,000 in advertising for rentals available in countries which have reportedly been called shithole countries” by Trump.

Silicon Valley’s Peter Thiel has finally cut ties with the Y Combinator investor fund, a year after being called a Silicon Valley traitor for his $1.25 million campaign contribution to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

During her annual State of the City address on Thursday, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf called on her constituents to open their doors and residences to the city’s homeless, as union workers picketed against her for her administration’s handling of the city’s rampant housing problem.

Spiking rents after the Wine Country fires could help Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom’s housing policies build support for his campaign for California governor.

Wine Country firefighters are gearing up for a 14-degree temperature spike over the next 72 hours that could triple wind gust speeds to 60-mile an hour and drive a new firestorm.

An Airbnb guest is accused of sexual assault for allegedly lying naked in a bed with his host’s 7-year-old daughter.