Booking.com, one of the world’s largest online travel platforms, plays an active role in legitimising the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. While the world watches civilians in Gaza being bombed and ethnic cleansing continuing in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, Booking.com continues to profit from accommodations in illegal Israeli settlements.

These settlements have been recognised by the United Nations and the International Criminal Court as violations of international law. Yet Booking.com promotes them as if they are ordinary holiday destinations, thereby normalising violence, land theft, and apartheid. In doing so, the platform becomes complicit in undermining human rights and in the structural oppression of the Palestinian people.

Workers have since organised internally to challenge Booking.com’s complicity by circulating multiple petitions within the company. These have garnered over 300 signatories, calling on the platform to stop listing accommodation in illegal settlements. However, these petitions have been removed from the company’s internal network – yet another instance of the policing of Palestine solidarity within Booking.com.

International Day of Action – Thursday, May 8

For years, activists, human rights organisations, and conscientious consumers have called on Booking.com to end these practices. Yet the company remains deaf to demands for ethical business conduct. As long as this continues, our message remains clear: no business with oppression. We urge everyone to pressure Booking.com, boycott its services, and choose alternatives that genuinely respect human rights.

That is why DiEM25 in the Netherlands supports the campaign: Stop Booking Apartheid.

Freedom is not a vacation option – it is a fundamental right.

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