Kayak

Kayak.com is an online travel search engine to find and compare prices for flights, hotels, car rentals, and vacation packages. The website has a heavy emphasis on sponsored content and results. Kayak aggregates data from different travel sites. The company is a subsidiary of Booking Holdings Inc.

Isreal and Apartheid

Kayak is owned by Booking Holdings, which is listed in the UN Database of businesses profiting from illegal Israeli settlements. This database, published in February 2020, resulted from an independent investigation into how these settlements violate Palestinian rights in occupied territories, including East Jerusalem, and their effects on the civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights of the Palestinian people.

By continuing to operate in occupied Palestinian territories, Kayak and its parent company, Booking Holdings, are legitimizing illegal occupation profiting from human rights violations, including the displacement and exploitation of Palestinian resources. They have undermined peace efforts, ignoring the UN report for years, choosing profits over principles, Contributing to discrimination, supporting a system of inequality, and eroding Palestinian rights. Their operations contribute to the systematic denial of Palestinian civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights.

Sources:

• OHCHR update of the database of all business enterprises involved in the activities detailed in paragraph 96 of the report of the independent international fact-finding mission to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem
• OHCHR Report of the independent international fact-finding mission to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem