Ultimately, reading in community opens up a new way of articulating the demand for Palestinian return. This contemporary writing has a richness which asks more questions than it answers—but in asking them, it extends our vocabulary and imagination for resistance.

For anyone involved in the difficult business of trying to change the world, Against the Storm will be a special and touching read. Let’s hope to find more documents like this, examples of practical organising against all odds, against the powerful, against their storm.