Referring to the Israeli-occupied territories in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, he stated that there were "deeply, deeply distressing" parallels with the situation in apartheid South Africa.
ガザとヨルダン川西岸地区のイスラエル占領地（英語版）に言及し、それが南アフリカのアパルトヘイトの状況の「深く、深く、悲惨な」相似であると述べた 。