So, Louis Theroux is chatting about his new BBC documentary on Israeli settlers, where he’s all like, “The world has totally shown it can handle Israeli atrocities against Palestinians.” The BBC series, Louis Theroux: The Settlers, is coming out this week, and honestly, it’s been 15 years since he’s been in the West Bank.
Theroux spent three weeks roaming around the West Bank, hanging with these Israeli ultra-nationalists who are kind of breaking international law by settling there. He’s all like, “Back in 2010, I saw these people just doing whatever they wanted while everyone else was following the rules.”
After reading some stuff in the New Yorker and the New York Times, Theroux decided to make this documentary. He chatted with settlers and their leaders, even the “Godmother” of the “settler movement.”
He visited this settlement called Evyatar, which is totally illegal under international law, but the Israeli government was like, “Yeah, sure, go ahead.” Theroux was like, “I want to hear from the people everyone thinks are bad.”
But also, he gets that people might think he’s giving these folks a platform to spread hate. He’s like, “I’m just trying to ask the right questions and challenge them.” Real journalism, you know?
Theroux says The Settlers shows that these people are anti-democratic and super supremacist. He’s warning about the dangers of letting exclusionary nationalists run the show.
He admits that some might see the documentary as anti-Israel, but he’s just trying to show what life is like in occupied territories. Theroux thinks other countries might look at this and think, “Hey, maybe we should try that too.”
Honestly, it’s airing on BBC Two this Sunday at 9pm. So, grab some popcorn and get ready for some serious drama.
