Louis Theroux

I don't think I'd be doing the job I did if my heart sank every time I was going to meet someone with views that I found objectionable.

Maybe, what does it say about me?

But I'm not sure.

But I do, there's a part of having a front seat, a front row seat to the extremes of the human experience that I genuinely enjoy.

And I know that sounds, there wasn't as awful as, you know, what's happening in the West Bank is extraordinarily awful.

Like before doing this call, I was thinking about how do I convey

What it's like.

And I was thinking about the activities of ICE in America and the fact that last year, two people in Minnesota, I think in Minneapolis, were shot dead by ICE, the Immigration Enforcement Agency.

And I was thinking like, but what's happening in the West Bank is like that day in, day out.

all through the year being done by a military force that isn't even from that place.

Imagine a military force coming in and shooting people in the streets for alleged infractions.

And so the outrage should be commensurate with the awfulness of how that looks.

But having said that, when I was there, there wasn't a day when I woke up when I didn't think,

What a strange and dark privilege it is to be able to document that and to be able to be on a story that feels worthy of the world's attention.

The short version is yes.

I give credit to the BBC for allowing me to make the film.

And it was invigilated and supervised scrupulously, almost infuriatingly so, at every stage.

But not just in terms of doing justice, like absolutely being scrupulously correct about how...

Israeli military actions or settler activities are discussed, but also doing kind of correctly.

There's this sort of gravitational pull towards an Israeli narrative because for whatever reason,