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‘They Make Genocide Jokes’ - Israeli Comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi on Racism, Zionism, and Palestinian Liberation

Mehdi chats with the comic and activist about her radical upbringing in the ‘Oasis of Peace,’ her career switch from the UN to standup, and her powerful new documentary, "Coexistence, My Ass!"

Noam Shuster-Eliassi is what some people might call a ‘unicorn’.

She’s an anti-Zionist, Jewish-Iranian Israeli who speaks fluent Arabic and grew up in a tiny village in Israel called the ‘Oasis of Peace’, where Jews and Palestinians choose to live together. And while she started a career in diplomacy with a stint at the United Nations trying to bring pea…

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