AIRBNB INC CLASS A

Airbnb operates the world's largest short-term rental marketplace with more than 12.7 million listings across 220 countries, and that platform has included properties in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank since at least 2018. According to AFSC Investigate, Airbnb listed properties in at least 56 illegal settlements in the West Bank and at least 18 in the occupied Golan Heights as of 2022, and a 2025 count by coalition human rights organizations put the current figure at over 300 properties in settlements deemed illegal under international law by the International Court of Justice.

In November 2018, Airbnb announced it would remove approximately 200 West Bank settlement listings, explicitly concluding that those listings "contributed to existing human suffering." Within months, facing legal challenges from Israeli settlers and diplomatic pushback from the Israeli government, Airbnb reversed the decision entirely and restored the listings. The platform excluded listings in Russian-occupied Crimea — first under sanctions pressure and later suspended all Russian operations following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine — making the West Bank carve-out a policy choice rather than an operational constraint.

As of mid-2025, Airbnb faces coordinated multi-jurisdictional criminal complaints in the United States, United Kingdom, and Ireland. The Global Legal Action Network, Al-Haq, and Sadaka Ireland allege that collecting payment for rentals on properties situated within what the ICJ has declared an illegal occupation constitutes money laundering under UK and Irish law. The UN included Airbnb in its 2020 database of companies operating in the occupied Palestinian territory, where it remains.