On July 25, 2016, in a speech in Philadelphia, before the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, Johnson stated that the Israel occupation of the West Bank had created highways to which Palestinians are denied access, and which cut off Palestinian neighborhoods from each other; that walls and Israeli checkpoints restrict Palestinian freedom of movement; that Jewish people take homes when Palestinian residents miss spending a night there, and fly an Israeli flag, while Palestinians are not permitted to fly their own. He was also reported as saying Palestinian homes were stolen or destroyed. He added that "there is a steady (stream) almost like termites" and that "settlement activity has marched forwards with impunity" detaching the prospect of Palestinians having their homeland from reality.