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How come the only Palestinians Louis Theroux met were non-violent sweeties?

Plus: a touching, revealing and often very funny new series of ITV's The Assembly

James Walton
Ari Abramowitz and Louis Theroux in The Settlers. IMAGE: BBC / MINDHOUSE PRODUCTIONS LTD / JOSH BAKER
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 03 May 2025
issue 03 May 2025

Louis Theroux: The Settlers was never likely to be a programme with much of a narrative arc – and so it proved. In the first 30 seconds, Louis put it to a Jewish householder on the West Bank that his house was ‘quite deep in what are called the Palestinian Territories’.

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