Airbnbhas a home with a room that can be rented in the Dheisheh UNRWA camp. It's a bargain, at $24 a night. Only women and couples can apply, as the wife is home alone.
Here are the rooms in this house that the international community has paid for:
The experience was written up in a blog called Against the Compass, and between that and the Airbnb reviews it is obvious that the family is offering the room so they can engage in anti-Israel propaganda.
Ibrahim isn’t just an amazing host but he will also take you around the camp. Life in a refugee camp is pretty similar to life in any suburb, with the difference that here houses are not numbered, the streets are nameless, there are pro-Palestine paintings everywhere and Israeli police incursions occur pretty often, as refugee camps are where most of the pro-Palestinian activists come from.
The entire camp is stamped with paintings, representing Palestinian martyrs, who have either been killed or put in jail for the rest of their lives. Ibrahim knew the story behind each and every one of these martyrs. Here are some examples:
And by the way - this nice house that Ibrahim's family shares with Westerners for only $24 a night is on land that belonged to Jews and was taken away and given to UNRWA by Jordan. Just one small fact that the Western guests will not learn from their hosts.
(h/t Ahron)
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