Hebrew Voices #82 – Airbnb Denies Yeshua a Room

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Hebrew Voices #82 – Airbnb Denies Yeshua a Room

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Nehemia: Shalom, and welcome to Hebrew Voices. The short-term rental company, Airbnb, has announced that they are going to de-list Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria, the historic heartland of Israel. This move specifically discriminates against Jews, as they will still allow non-Jews in these regions to list their properties for rental.

They claim that this is because of the status of the so-called “West Bank” as disputed territory. However, there are numerous occupied and disputed territories all over the world, where Airbnb operates, for example, Crimea, Tibet, and Western Sahara. All of these areas are considered occupied territories by the international community, yet Airbnb lists them for rental. Why? Because Jews are involved in Judea and Samaria, and not in these other areas.

This is anti-Semitism rearing its ugly head once again to oppose “evil Jewish settlers.” To put this in context, if our forefather Abraham lived today, he would be considered an “evil Jewish settler.” And the tent where he welcomed the three angels in Genesis 18 would be de-listed from Airbnb. The most famous so-called “evil Jewish settler” in human history was named Yeshua of Nazareth. Here is that story, which I recently shared, following the similar United Nations decision to condemn Jews living in Judea, Samaria, and even entire neighborhoods of Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the Jewish people.

Michael: To help us to understand what this settlement means, and to tell us about an early Jewish settler, we have Nehemia Gordon with us. Nehemia, thanks for being with us back together, here.

Nehemia: Michael, it’s great to be back. You know, when they established this UN ruling recently, it basically categorized 500,000 Israelis as war criminals. And I saw Obama’s spokesman on television, and he was saying, “Well, what this is really about…” He was justifying it. He was saying, “These Jews are on a lone hill somewhere, and they’re trying to steal Palestinian land.”

Actually, the place you lived, Michael, that we’re talking about, was in the neighborhood of Arnona, which is just a neighborhood of Jerusalem that was built on what, before 1967, was the no-man’s land between Israel and Jordan. There was no Palestine. There was the Kingdom of Jordan and there was the State of Israel, and the no man’s land. Today, thousands of Jews live there, and they’re calling that “occupied territories.”

Michael: That’s right.