The online travel reservation service Booking.com has erased its categorization of Jerusalem as an “Israeli settlement” after being contacted for questioning by a Belgian Jewish newspaper.
Booking.com, which is based in Amsterdam, made the change on Tuesday, just hours after the editor in chief of the Antwerp Joods Actueelnewspaper wrote to the company, asking why it refers to the historic, ancient city as a “settlement.”
Jerusalem is now in Israel on the Booking.com website.
The company did not reply to Freilich.