A video of a performance by Berlin comedian Shahak Shapira went viral a few months ago.
Three days after Hamas killed around 1,140 people and kidnapped more than 250 others on October 7th, he stood on the cabaret stage of a comedy club owner friend and spontaneously performed a comedy show.
The owner of the club is Palestinian.
He achieved the impossible: a funny and at the same time deeply human and vulnerable show.
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The writer, activist and satirist Shahak Shapira.
Photo: Gregor Fischer/dpa
In the “Moreno+1” podcast, host Juan Moreno Shahak asks Shapira about the motives for this appearance, which suddenly appear in a completely different light if you know Shapira’s story.
The maternal grandfather lost his entire family in the Warsaw Ghetto; he was hidden by Poles as a child and later moved to Israel.
His paternal grandfather was one of the victims of the Munich Olympic attack on September 5, 1972. A Palestinian terrorist organization murdered eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team during the Summer Olympics in Munich - including Shapira's grandfather.
Listen to the full episode now.