With the Neo-Nazi party (NPD) reaching its statewide highest outcome of 13.55% in 2009's local elections, Shapira described the town as an "eastern German NPD-Stronghold".

[1] The incident was covered by numerous news outlets around the world with Shapira getting the media's attention for refusing to let his case be exploited by right-wing populists to stir up hatred against Muslims.

In early 2017, Shapira launched the controversial online art project "Yolocaust", combining selfies from the Berlin Holocaust Memorial with footage from Nazi extermination camps.

After noticing numerous instances on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tinder and Grindr of people posting smiling selfies with the memorial as a backdrop, and photos of themselves doing yoga or otherwise jumping or dancing on the memorial's stone slabs, Shapira decided to ironically point out the jarring disconnect of taking such inappropriately cheerful pictures in such a somber setting.

[8] In August 2017, Shapira sprayed 30 homophobic, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic and racist tweets outside Twitter's German headquarters in Hamburg after the social network failed to remove the offensive hate posts from its platform.

In Baklavas From Gaza: Comic Relief for Israel and Palestine, he ordered trials of new material related to the West in a Berlin bar owned by a Palestinian friend.