In 2014, Tutu urged the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States to divest from companies that contributed to the occupation, saying that Israel "has created an apartheid reality within its borders and through its occupation", and that the alternative to Israel being "an apartheid state in perpetuity" was to end the occupation through either a one-state solution or a two-state solution.
In 2014, Tutu advised the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States to divest from companies contributing to the occupation. He argued that Israel had created an apartheid situation both within its borders and through its control, and proposed either a unified nation or two separate states as alternatives to maintaining Israeli rule indefinitely.