Here are two thoughtful pieces on ‘solidarity’ work with Palestinian struggle. For Linah Alsaafin, the pressure for Palestinians to engage only in non-violent action is unacceptable. For Richard Falk, Palestinians’ right to choose their forms of resistance is beyond question, but solidarity activists also have to choose how to assail the oppressor from bearing witness to exposing western hypocrisy about violence.

The UN Security Council is expected to vote on 11 November whether to recognize Palestine as a member state, 1st, 2nd article. 3rd, in interview on Jordanian TV President Abbas assesses all he achieved by non-violent means – apart from the still-elusive national independence

Nadia Hihab is co-director of Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network and is on the advisory board of US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. The BDS campaign, initiated and led by Palestinian civil society, is the best alternative to ‘a sterile, U.S.-Israeli led process’ and a means for Palestinians to work together. All can support it, she argues, as a means to Palestinian self-determination

Tamar Fleishman, a member of Machsomwatch which checks the checkpoints, looks ahead to September and back to one remarkable display of non-violent solidarity to imagine how Palestinians might act at the time of the UN vote on recognising Palestine as a state