‘Coexistence, My Ass!’ Review: Urgent and Brilliant Documentary Finds Radical Ideas Following Israeli Stand-Up Comic’s Peacekeeping Efforts

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Tomris Laffly Comedy wasn’t always Noam Shuster Eliassi’s purpose in life. But as true callings sometimes do, stand-up found this immensely charismatic and funny intellectual eventually.

After all, the magnetic subject of Amber Fares’s urgent, eye-opening and enormously compassionate documentary “Coexistence, My Ass” has always been opinionated, sporting a great sense of humor since childhood.

But growing up as the poster child of good-will between Israel and Palestine, there were other priorities for her, like landing a United Nations job and working towards peacekeeping in the Middle East.

Utilizing one of Eliassi’s uproarious stand-up routines as its narrative spine, the often very funny, other times deeply heartrending “Coexistence, My Ass” takes its name from the comedy show that she developed at Harvard University upon an invitation. (Her inspiration for writing comedy?