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Bouvard on Anti-Israel Movement's Performative Authenticity

X / Twitter · Mar 10, 2026 · 1 min read

Part of the reason for the momentum the anti-Israel firsters picked up is that they radicalized the method of always claiming your opponent is an "op" while simultaneously being completely aware of your own "op-ness." You claim spontaneity and grassroots-ness against the other

sides presumed fakeness and boughtness while creating and enforcing your own formulaic construct. This should reach its limits as the cracks in their own construction become more evident and maybe we will get to a much more productive political arrangement where we all

acknowledge that it's all ops, all the way down, on all sides. Relations of patronage and crossovers between "state" and "non-state," "deep" and "surface" state, can be made explicit and everyone will be aware to varying degrees of being on a particular team. This would make

politics more nakedly transactional on one level, but on another level the terms of something like a "social contract" or obligation to the commons could also be discussed more openly and empirically. But all that should follow from just being able to normalize the op.

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