Honestly I kind of despair for this ever reaching an amicable solution.
[0] https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Sessio...
Is the problem that you can book a hotel (or bnb) within the occupied territories?
Or is it you can book a hotel at something which is an "illegal" (as set by the UN but not by Israel I assume) settlement?
Does the UN want the booking services to check the ownership of the hotel to see if it is Jewish or Palestinian? Or just not have any hotel bookings there at all?
They are considered illegal by US, Canada, UK, EU, and most other nations. China generally supports the notion that this is occupied territory and generally votes in this direction the UN.
So this is not one of those 'North Korea, Syria and Somalia have taken control of some UN working group' type of scenario, nor is there really any lack of international solidarity, at least academically on the issue.
Obviously it's complicated, but there's pretty much a consensus on the de-facto illegality of the settlements.
I'm a bit confused about TripAdvisor but I bet there's just some portion of their business I'm not familiar with. It seems like reviews etc of businesses and lodgings inside settlements wouldn't be enough to reach that category.
I looked around the links on that page but I'm not getting a good feel for what happened.
Like any hotel booking site that can book a hotel room that is located in the settlement?
Which is still an unfortunate situation for the tenants, much like being evicted in San Francisco after your landlord sells your apartment to someone else, but still different from outright theft.
A Mexican who enters the US without a visa and buys a house there is living there illegally according to immigration law, but that doesn't mean their house is stolen property.
They're orthogonal legal questions.
2. The Quora thread klipt linked to included several answers from several people, and did not cite any particular one of them. Picking a single one of those several answers, making an ad hominem based on the person who supplied that one answer, and ignoring the other 18 answers in that thread is pretty ridiculous.
2. Deceptive framing on your part. The thread is obviously brigaded by people with a conflict of interest, don't insult my intelligence. The overwhelming majority of answers there are by people, who live in Israel and have no qualifications to answer the question in an unbiased manner. Have you even read some of the answers there? Obviously not, otherwise you wouldn't try to defend the indefensible.