BBC’s ‘The Settlers’ refuses to scratch beneath the surface of Zionist settler colonialism – Mondoweiss

Louis Theroux is perhaps the UK’s most renowned documentarian. His newest film, “The Settlers,” is a deep dive into the religious ultra-nationalist Zionist settler movement in the West Bank, and is primarily comprised of interviews with said settlers. The interviewees’ candidness is the film’s main hook, which has consequently stirred up quite the commotion. Reception has ranged from adoration of the interview techniques to tired accusations of bias. 

Yet controversy…