Since we inaugurated PINontheGo in April, we’ve asked what you’re reading and watching and what resources you use.   Additional resources will be featured in a subsequent posting. Thanks to those who’ve contributed.

• Newland Smith recommends Generation Palestine: Voices from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, edited by Rich Wiles.  He lifts up two essays: Kali Akuno’s "The US Civil Rights and Black Liberation Movement: Lessons and Applications for the Palestine Liberation Movement" and "Leveling the Scales by Force: Thoughts on Normalization" by Rifat Odeh Kassis.
• Peggy Bronson recommends Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers’ Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000-2010, compiled by Breaking the Silence.  She comments, “ For their protection the book removes all identity of the soldiers.  It tells the stories of what the soldiers were ordered to do while serving in the West Bank and Gaza.  It is a compelling book that shows how their own soldiers do not agree with the orders coming from their superiors. The book was one that I could not put down.  It tells of the harsh conditions that the Palestinians live with from the perspective of the Israeli soldiers.”
• Edward Thompson recommends Robert Smith’s new book on the roots of Christian Zionism More Desired than Our Owne Salvation.  It “tells a compelling story of how biblical literalism and the associated Christian Zionist ideas were operating in living color 500 to 600 years ago in England, and Europe. These ideas were transported to America. Our culture and our individual psyches are embedded with vestiges of these ideas so that affinity for Israel comes ‘naturally.’  Anti-Muslim sentiment also flows ‘naturally.’”
• Caroline Cracraft suggests Yasmina Khadra’s The Attack, “brilliantly written, superbly translated from the French,” and Michelle Cohen Corasanti’s The Almond Tree.  She continues, “both vivid, accurate, detailed, unflinching pictures of real life in West Bank, Gaza, Israel.”
• Dana Grubb says he’s been particularly impressed by Patrick Tyler’s Fortress Israel.

From Donna Hicks, convener for EPF PIN:

We see things through our own experiences and may not always agree on what works or doesn’t as a resource, just as, for example, our perspectives on positive investment or one state/two state may differ.

For example, here are two contrasting reviews of The Almond Tree:

Electronic Intifada review of The Almond Tree

Palestine Chronicle review of The Almond Tree

This blog section of our website offers us an opportunity to comment and reflect together on the issues.  If you’ve read these books, what’s your take?  What else might you recommend to EPF PIN members?