Booking.com, the Amsterdam‑based online travel agency operating under Booking Holdings, lists millions of properties worldwide, including 760+ rooms in illegal Israeli settlements across the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The platform mislabels properties; classifying settlement listings as “Israel” or only offering vague designations like “Palestinian Territory – Israeli settlement.” Human rights groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch assert that by listing and profiting from these sites, Booking.com enables land theft, authorizes the displacement of Palestinian residents, and normalizes occupation through tourism.
Despite an initial 2018 pledge to remove listings in settlements, Booking.com reversed course under legal pressure and continues to profit. In 2022, it added watered-down warnings but remained listed in a UN database of companies complicit in settlement activity. European activists and Dutch prosecutors now allege that Booking.com is aiding war crimes and laundering proceeds of settler land sales.
Booking.com is rated High Impact due to its active facilitation and monetization of Israeli settlement tourism—operations that violate international law and fuel settler colonialism. Its platform powers revenue extraction from stolen land, normalizes apartheid-era expansion, and misleads consumers into booking on confiscated Palestinian territory.
Booking.com's impact is direct and foundational to the occupation economy. Human rights groups and legal bodies, including a criminal complaint in the Netherlands, have called for full accountability. For the global justice movement, Booking.com represents a structural actor in occupation making economic pressure both urgent and justified.
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