Depending on interpretation, the slogan that gives this work its title is either a passionate plea for Palestinian liberation or an antisemitic call for the obliteration of Israel. But don’t worry, Yousef Sweid tells us at the start of a chatty, unpolished, hour-long slice of autobiographical stand-up theatre: he doesn’t want to talk about the Hamas atrocities of July 7 or Israel’s subsequent brutal obliteration of Gaza, but about his divorce.
Sweid is an impishly charming Palestinian actor and an Israeli citizen, born into an Arab Christian family in Haifa and now living in Berlin, the father of a grown up son and an infant daughter by his two Jewish exes. His very existence is proof that, between the political extremes, there is a zone where ethnicities, beliefs and allegiances blur, and where people generally just want to be left alone to rub along (or have sex) together.
