The home-rental company Airbnb said on 19 November it would remove some 200 settlement listings because it believes that “companies should not profit on lands where people have been displaced”. However, the measure does not apply to East Jerusalem or the Golan Heights, the territories that Israel seized in 1967 war and annexed, unlike the West Bank. The Human Rights Watch called on Booking.com to follow Airbnb’s “positive step”. Israel said it would turn to the Trump administration and could back lawsuits against Airbnb within US states that have legislated against anti-Israel boycotts. Tourism Minister Yariv Levin said on 20 November that Israel will seek to impose “very high taxes” on the company in order to restrict its operations in Israel. He also said that Israel will encourage hosts in settlements to sue the company to make it “pay” for its decision. The country’s Strategic Affairs Minister, Gilad Erdan, said at a conference on 21 November “I call today on all those who support Israel and oppose discriminatory boycotts: they should cease using Airbnb and turn to other services”. Around 400,000 Israelis live in West Bank settlements. The EU spokeperson has condemned on 24 November the Israeli “policy of settlement construction and expansion”, saying it “undermine[s] the possibility of a viable two-state solution”.