Workers and activists are staging protests at Booking.com’s headquarters in Manchester and Amsterdam in response to the launch of the “Stop Booking Apartheid” campaign on 2 May.
The campaign, initiated by a coalition of Palestinian, labour, and left-wing organisations, accuses the travel platform of profiting from Israeli war crimes by listing rental accommodations in Israeli settlements located in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
In Manchester, northern England, Youth Front for Palestine activists projected images of refugee tents bearing the names of Israeli settlements featured on Booking.com, alongside the names of Palestinian communities forcibly displaced from those areas.
Meanwhile, at Booking.com’s Amsterdam headquarters—which has also been the subject of a legal complaint by the European Legal Support Centre alleging money laundering—activists from XR Justice Now and Diem 25 unfurled a banner in protest….