As everyone in media knows, you don’t have to spend a cent to go to Israel; if you’re a reporter, the government is happy to fly you out on a junket. Still, she [Lauren Southern] was asked to fundraise from her audience to pay for the trip. When she looked into the itinerary, she discovered that “(e)very interview was pre-arranged, every moment scheduled,” as she writes in her memoir, This Is Not Real Life. Her guide would be a former IDF paratrooper who now leads PR tours for the Israeli government.