Review | Louis Theroux’s Settlers

Theroux’s Film on Israel’s Violent Settlers Was a Mirror

For once, the BBC aired a documentary showing Israeli society’s dark underbelly. The backlash is not because Louis Theroux got it wrong. It’s because his film tells us far too much about ourselves Louis Theroux explains in a commentary published by the Guardian on 10 May why the backlash to his recent film about violent, Israeli state-backed settlers misses the point. His critics say he is unfairly presenting a few marginal “crazies” in Israeli …

Review | Louis Theroux’s Settlers

The BBC’s Louis Theroux returned to the illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine’s West Bank after 14 years since his last programme in region, prompting international outrage about the state sanctioned violent terror inflicted onto the Palestinian people depicted in The Settlers. rs21 member and Palestine activist Liz Burdon checks in to see if the critical acclaim and inevitable Zionist backlash is deserved Palestinian demonstration in Hebron …