2024-07-10 06:16:33
Writer and anthropologist Daria Maoz told how she planned to spend her vacation in Oxford (Britain), where she booked an apartment through the Airbnb service. But a few days before the trip, she received a message in which she was denied renting housing.
This is what he writes about Ynet.
Darya said that the owner of the apartment wrote to her and asked her to find another apartment, since she did not know that the woman would be coming from Israel. She also wrote that she “cannot forgive the war that our country is waging, it contradicts its values.” The Israeli woman admitted that she was shocked by such an attitude, since the message clearly contained racist and anti-Semitic motives.
According to Daria, she tried to find another apartment, but it was difficult because Oxford is packed with tourists during the high season, and she wanted to find accommodation in the center, not in remote villages. The woman wrote to the support department Airbnb responded to the complaint immediately, condemning the incident. The service suspended advertising of the apartment that the Israeli woman was trying to rent, and excluded its owner from the list in the database. The site’s representatives also helped the woman find alternative housing near her previous apartment, taking on the cost difference.
“Kursor” wrote earlier that an Israeli who went on holiday to Paris (France) with his family was refused accommodation in a hotel room, despite a pre-arranged reservation for three nights.