Louis Theroux

Aspects of sort of a kind of conspiracy minded or gun obsessed American extremism you would see in the hills of Idaho or Montana or, you know, I mean, all over, but in kind of isolated locales.

But generally not backed up by the army or by law enforcement.

And here it felt like it was part of day-to-day life.

In the years that followed, I moved on to other stories.

I made three trips for that 2011 film.

Post-October 7th, I'd been reading that the situation was even worse.

I mean, it never kind of, it was never too remote from my thinking.

Like whenever I thought back about story, I'm always thinking about revisiting, but for this one in particular, because it was, as I say, so extreme, it felt like this, well, there's a form of apartheid taking place in the West Bank and

And to see that, you know, not in history books, but in plain sight in the here and now.

So having read about it in the New York Times, the New Yorker and a couple of other places post-October 7th and hearing that it was more, if anything worse, that the displacement was going on at a higher rate, that the level of de facto ethnic cleansing was taking place more intensively, I thought it would be worth going back.

Well, I sometimes think that people, when they watch my films, see what conforms to their way of thinking.

So that, in other words, if I do a story about something like the Westboro Baptist Church in the Midwest, a religious hate group, kind of a cult,

You know, you or I might watch that and think these people are deeply destructive.

They watch that film and think, yeah, I think we did a pretty good job of getting our message across and the idiot journalist doesn't get it, right?

So I think Daniela Weiss would see that film, you know, The Settlers or indeed The Ultra Zionists and think,

Yeah, it's what I expect from a kind of brainwashed BBC journalist, and that's fine.

She will speak to almost anyone.

I think even if Al Jazeera asked for an interview, she'd probably be inclined to grant one.

She's so uninterested in the reactions of people outside of her way of thinking that

that she couldn't care less.