It is my hope that this statement gets very broad circulation. Many of us who were involved in the anti-apartheid movement against white minority rule in South Africa have felt it essential to link that historic stand with a stand in favor of justice for the Palestinian people. Apartheid not only describes the system of racist oppression that existed in South Africa, but also the system that exists in both the Occupied Territories and within Israel that deprives the Palestinian people of equal rights and national self-determination.