The German-Jewish comic Shahak Shapira is annoyed by rising anti-Semitism in Germany. “I’m super bitter,” Shapira advised the weekly newspaper “Die Zeit.” His method of coping with that is political comedy. “What am I supposed to do? Go out and beat up Palestinians? The thing is: We have to be better. We, my people, my family, we have to make sure that we don’t degenerate morally.”
He additionally desires to stay political in his new program. “I envy the people who don’t have to be political,” Shapira stated. “I’d like to be able to do that too. But if I hide that part of myself, it would feel like I’m erasing my own identity.” There is not any separation between his private and non-private persona. “Do you become depressed because you’re a comedian, or do you become a comedian because you’re depressed?”
Shapira and his brother have been focused
Shapira, who was born in Israel in 1988 and has lived in Germany since 2002, is likely one of the best-known comedians in Germany who aggressively addresses the German-Jewish-Israeli-Arab battle zones. In 2015 he was crushed up by males of Arab origin in Berlin.
His youthful brother Lahav was crushed up by neo-Nazis in 2010 and by a pro-Palestinian activist in 2024. The 24-year-old attacker was sentenced to 3 years in jail. The Tiergarten district court docket discovered the sufferer’s fellow scholar on the time responsible of grievous bodily hurt and assumed an anti-Semitic motive.
Shapira’s grandfather Amitzur Shapira died in Fürstenfeldbruck in 1972 in the course of the Munich Olympics as a hostage of Palestinian terrorists. He was the coach of the Israeli observe and subject staff.
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