'They Make Genocide Jokes’ - Meet the Jewish-Israeli Comedian Fighting For a Free Palestine
January 7, 2026
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as posted by the channel"It’s not often that Mehdi begins an interview saying, “I am ashamed to say, as someone who's followed the Israel-Palestine issue for many decades, I didn't know anything about [the ‘Oasis of Peace’].”
In the new episode of ‘We’re Not Kidding’, Mehdi is joined by Jewish-Israeli comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi, who grew up in the aforementioned small Israeli village nicknamed ‘The Oasis of Peace’. It’s the only place in Israel where Jews and Palestinians live together voluntarily. Noam is the subject of the new documentary ‘Coexistence, My Ass!’ (which was just shortlisted for the Academy Awards!) that tells the story of her political evolution from growing up as the poster-child of the “coexistence movement” to becoming a standup comedian determined to dismantle apartheid within Israel.
Mehdi and Noam also get into:
- Noam’s “woke leftist parents” and radical childhood in the ‘Oasis of Peace’.
- How Noam went from working at the United Nations to becoming a standup comedian.
- Noam’s political sketches that were broadcast on Israeli television.
- The moral inconsistencies of some Israeli liberals.
- How Oct. 7 created a wave of anti-Palestinian extremism in the Israeli comedy scene.
- Israeli hasbara and the power of its propaganda machine.
- And more…
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