Louis Theroux

So is it depressing?

Yes.

especially in light of so much of it is informed by an infrastructure of Jewish persecution.

You know, the idea of like, we've suffered across the centuries as Jewish people, and that therefore, the extrapolation from that is like, how could we ever be accused of hurting others, of displacing or inflicting genocide on others?

But I think, you know, what is the conclusion?

It's just that it requires this sort of endless attempt to police your own impulses.

You know, I think I would say like selective compassion isn't compassion.

It is tribalism.

Right.

So it's about trying to throw your arms around the wider community.

But, you know, it all sounds a bit namby pamby when you put it like that.

And it's easier said than done.

There's a couple of dimensions to that.

I think oppression tends to, obviously it happens in different contexts, but one is a sense of victimization.

Like if we take our foot off his neck

then his foot will be on our neck.

And that's very much the thinking among parts of the settler community.

We'll get a jihadi state here, that sort of thing.

Well, not wholly without merit.

There's so much anger, understandable anger and resentment.