All the Details About Louis Theroux's West Bank BBC Doc
Louis Theroux’s BBC documentary 'The Settlers' was released on BBC iPlayer on Sunday, April 27, showing the British-American journalist in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and highlighting the difficulties Palestinians face daily.
In the documentary, Theroux revisits the subject of a documentary he made in 2011 called 'The Ultra Zionists'.
In 'The Settlers' Theroux talks to the head of the settler movement in the West Bank, Daniella Weiss.
The documentary went viral on social media, drawing mixed reactions from netizens; while some praised the film for shedding light on settler violence in the West Bank, others accused Theroux of antisemitism and bias.
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Viewers have also compared 'The Settlers' to the BBC's previous documentary, 'Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone', which was withdrawn from the streaming platform because of controversy.
Who is Louis Theroux?
Theroux was born in 1970 in Singapore to the English teacher, Anne Castle, and the American writer, Paul Theroux.
Louis spent most of his childhood in London, and he graduated with first-class honours from Magdalen College, Oxford, in Modern History.
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He moved to the US after graduation and started his journalistic career in Metro Silicon Valley. He started work in the television industry by becoming a correspondent for Michael Moore's TV Nation.
Louis Theroux is a documentarian, journalist, broadcaster, author, and podcaster.
He has created work like 'Louis Theroux's Weekends' and 'When Louis Met'. During and after the pandemic, Theroux hosted the podcast 'Grounded With Louis Theroux' and in 2023, he started the 'Louis Theroux Podcast' with Spotify.
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