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⁴ The use of “suspension” in this essay came about fortuitously, albeit with twists and turns. As I taught about Palestine-Israel in the fall of 2018, I also introduced a proposal for Faculty Meeting at Pitzer College, in regard to our one approved study-abroad program in Israel, at the University of Haifa. In the working draft of that proposal, I had written a call to “end” the program, but just before sending the proposal out to the Faculty, I thought better of that and adopted the term “suspend” until specific conditions had been met. Then, on February 6, 2019, Claremont SJP sponsored a panel of outside speakers at Pitzer in support of the motion. In that context, Mark Minch-de Leon gave an incisive short talk on the value of “suspension” as a political strategy – as a way to disrupt “business as normal” in regard to normalized evil. A few weeks later, when I sat down to draft this text, Mark's comments, still fresh in my memory, led me to add “and suspension” to what I had previously thought of as a “pedagogy of delay.”

⁵ A useful short text in this regard, which I have had my students read as an in-class assignment, is Paul Krugman, “The Centrist Cop-Out,” The New York Times (July 29, 2011).

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