Rooms to Rent by Israelis? Washington Post Recycles ‚Restrictive Covenant‘ | CAMERA

Before federal civil rights laws prohibited them, “restrictive covenants” were used by some real estate agents, lenders, civic associations and homeowners to keep “undesirables”—blacks, Jews, other minorities—out of certain neighborhoods. The anti-Israel, or, to be unquestioningly charitable, “pro-Palestinian” crowd long has invoked, international law as a restrictive covenant against Jewish settlement in much eretz Yisrael, the land of Israel. The Washington Post’s page one feature “For travelers to Israeli settlements, rooms with a view—and controversy” (Feb. 2, 2016) is an example, witting or unwitting, of such efforts as applied to tourists.