Louis Theroux On Returning To The West Bank After 15 Years For BBC Doc ‘The Settlers’ & Being “Perpetrator Focused” — Guest Column

deadline.comPublished: 4/23/2025

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Editor’s Note: About 15 years ago, celebrated documentarian Louis Theroux headed to the occupied West Bank territory for a tell-all documentary. This week, he returns for the BBC‘s Louis Theroux: The Settlers, which launches in a few days’ time. Watch on DeadlineI’d made a documentary in the West Bank once before, in 2010. They regard Israeli settlers as the tip of the spear of what they frame as a global war against Islam. And so there is renewed relevance to understanding what is happening in the West Bank.