Bouvard on Ben-Gvir Performative Condemnation Politics

The whole Ben-Gvir outrage is bizarre. It's one of those things where they try to lock down condemnations like tokens, and ask people later if they condemned Ben-Gvir when it counted. It's also that many feel obliged to play along with the idea that the flotilla participants are

foreign dignitaries rather than terrorist accomplices. To "condemn" Ben-Gvir is to affirm the flotilla as a properly fashionable protest. It also helps to flip the hostage narrative, as other countries express "concern" for the safety of their citizens. It will be forgotten soon.

@slooperbia50068 I don't know if it served any real purpose but these responses are overblown. What, exactly, do they think will happen? Did he break some law? What, exactly, is so terrible? Yonah E seems to be complaining about the showboating, but why is that so serious?

@slooperbia50068 The Jew hatred is a self-generating system and it doesn't need Ben-Gvir's contribution. With all the outrage I still haven't seen anyone put a label on what, exactly, his offense was. And those Israelis frustrated with the coddling of these terrorist-adjacent lowlifes have a

@slooperbia50068 right to see that frustration given expression. They should all be thrown into jail for lengthy stretches on some kind of accessory to terrorism charge, or whatever they could throw at them.

@slooperbia50068 They don't really pose a threat. They are just enemies, persistently breaking Israeli law, a nuisance trying to embarrass Israel, and they should be treated accordingly.