PayPal provides full service to illegal Israeli settlers while banning 5 million Palestinians in the West Bank. Organizations like the Hebron Fund and Friends of the IDF use PayPal to raise funds that support settler violence and military operations in occupied territories.
Congressman Ro Khanna was recently detained by Israeli settlers for 1.5 hours while touring the Hebron Hills region of the West Bank. There is a substantial likelihood that PayPal contributed to this violence by enabling donations to both settlers and to the IDF.
After the abuses faced by Rep. Ro Khanna, it's time to demand accountability. PayPal's headquarters is in Rep. Khanna's Silicon Valley district—he has the power to investigate and end PayPal's discriminatory policy that facilitates these crimes. We're urging Ro Khanna to investigate PayPal's role in enabling the settler violence, ban the use of PayPal's services for such purposes, and demand that PayPal provide services to the millions of Palestinians unfairly locked out of the platform.