I'm Robin Simeon, executive producer of Question Everything.

Brian Reid will be back hosting the show again next time.

I'm here today with part two of a special two-episode series about reporter Jeremy LaFredo,

who, in October last year, became the first American journalist to be arrested by Israel.

If you haven't heard part one, go back and get caught up. It's in your feed

called Blindfolded and Arrested on Assignment in Israel. To recap, Jeremy and a car full of people

had been pulled over by Israeli soldiers while in the West Bank. Israeli police put four of them in custody, zip tied, and blindfolded Jeremy and some of the

others. The people he was with were ultimately let go, but not Jeremy. And now, Jeremy was being

held in a police station near Jerusalem. He'd been in custody since early afternoon. It was now around midnight, and Jeremy was being held in a police station near Jerusalem. He'd been in custody since early afternoon.

It was now around midnight, and Jeremy was brought out of his cell to speak with a lawyer for the first time.

So I went to this office, and I answered the phone, and the lawyer says, Mr. Lafredo, I want you to be very honest with me. I want you to be

very clear. What have you done? I said, well, excuse me?

Jeremy thought he was in trouble over a video he produced for the outlet he works for,

the gray zone.

The gray zone, you may recall, is controversial.

It's known for peddling conspiracy theories and gets accused of being aligned with Iran and Russia.

It denies that and positions itself as a much-needed alternative to the mainstream news,

anti-empirate, as it says on its website, highly critical of American foreign policy,

and highly, highly critical of Israel.

The story Jeremy produced that he was now worrying about in detention was about a recent Iranian missile attack,

and how one of the missiles had landed within

200 yards or so of headquarters for the Israeli spy agency, the Mossad. Jeremy had added a map to the

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