PROTESTERS demonstrated outside Booking.com’s headquarters in Manchester today, accusing the firm of promoting tourism on stolen land.

The travel platform lists properties in illegal Israeli settlements located in the occupied West Bank. 

A criminal complaint has been made against the firm in the Netherlands over the matter.

Activists have been campaigning for Manchester Pride to drop the firm as a sponsor. 

According to an Instagram post by No Pride In Genocide Manchester, the charity has agreed not to renew their contract with the firm in 2026, although they have not yet committed to it in writing and it remains a sponsor for this year’s event.

A spokesperson for No Pride in Genocide Campaign Manchester said:“This company incentivises the displacement of Palestinians from their villages and land, enabling state violence as Israeli settlers bulldoze and raid Palestinian homes in a brutal attempt to ethnic cleanse the native population.

“As queer and trans activists, we call on Manchester Pride to adopt BDS and to pull all advertising for Booking.com at this year’s Pride festival.

“We call on Booking.com to pull its 50+ listings of holiday homes on stolen land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

“We will not rest until this happens.”

A spokesperson from Booking.com said: “Our mission is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world and as such we believe it’s not our place to decide where someone can or cannot travel.

“We continue to monitor the situation closely, including the potential for changing laws and rigorously apply the principles and processes outlined in our Human Rights Statement, as we do in all disputed or conflict-affected areas in the world.”