An investigation has found that a string of property owners across the county are refusing to consider Zionists as tenants when renting their spare rooms.
Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman called the adverts, revealed by the Telegraph, “blatantly racist” and “the ugly face of the liberal left”.
One advert for a property in Portslade, a suburb of Brighton and Hove, included a message from the owners, which read: “We can get on with most people, except transphobes or Zionists.”
Another advert, for a property in Greenwich, stated that the “nonbinary transfemme” landlord was “ideally looking for someone queer”, and that “Terfs [trans-exclusionary radical feminists], Swerfs [sex worker-exclusionary radical feminists]... [and] Zionists need not apply”.
Meanwhile, other ads uncovered by the investigation simply read: “No Zionists”.
And some said they would not allow straight men, while others said they would not allow any men at all.
A similar investigation published recently by the same paper also found ads which stated that only Muslim applicants would be considered, including one stating a flat would only be let to “2 Muslim boys or 2 Muslim girls”.
“These blatantly racist adverts expose the sinister hypocrisy among the so-called ‘tolerant’ Left,” said Braverman.
“While claiming to champion inclusion and equality, they openly endorse discrimination based on gender, sexuality, political beliefs and religion.”
A spokesman for popular rental site SpareRoom said: “It’s important to recognise that flatmates sharing a property, as well as homeowners advertising for lodgers, are allowed to have certain preferences when it comes to who they live with, which landlords don’t.
“But we ask flatmates to write their ads clearly and respectfully, and we ask everyone to avoid using exclusionary wording.
“So, while flatmates are free to cover their own political beliefs, for example, and say they’d like someone with similar views to share their home, they can’t state who they don’t want to live with. And while it’s fine to say ‘female preferred as other housemates are female’, it’s not acceptable to say ‘no men allowed’.
“[Moderators are] usually quick to delete anything that contravenes our discrimination policy and to raise it with the advertiser so it doesn’t happen again.”
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