Imagine moving to the United States on a work visa, benefiting from the education system, securing a prestigious job at an Ivy League-affiliated medical school, and then getting yourself deported because you just had to attend the funeral of a terrorist leader.
That’s exactly what happened to Rasha Alawieh, a Lebanese doctor working at Brown University’s medical school after Customs and Border Protection (CBP) discovered she had traveled to pay respects to Hezbollah’s former leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
Yes, you read that right—an Ivy League-employed physician, here on an H-1B visa, thought it was a good idea to publicly mourn a terrorist responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans. And she didn’t just attend his funeral; she also admitted her support for Nasrallah and had pictures of both him and Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, stored on her phone. Not exactly what you’d expect from someone working in American medicine, but here we are.
Rasha Alawieh, a Lebanese doctor and Brown University professor here on a visa, just got DEPORTED after feds found out she attended a funeral for HEZBOLLAH TERROR CHIEF Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/XGo6HOqwTO
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 17, 2025
Naturally, DHS wasted no time in reminding everyone that being in this country on a visa is a privilege, not a right. And when you openly align yourself with those who kill Americans, that privilege gets revoked—quickly. “Glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be denied,” DHS posted on X, adding, “This is commonsense security.” And yet, somehow, there are still people trying to argue that this was a violation of her rights.
Alawieh even admitted to CBP that she deleted the incriminating photos just two days before returning to the U.S. Why? Because she “did not want to give authorities the perception that she supports Hezbollah and the Ayatollah politically or militarily.” Oh, well, that clears things up. So she does support them, but she just didn’t want the U.S. government to know about it. That’s called deception, and if you have to hide something from the authorities before entering the country, that’s usually a good sign you shouldn’t be here in the first place.
And just when you thought this story couldn’t get more absurd, Alawieh’s lawyer, Stephanie Marzouk, is now fighting to bring her back, claiming the deportation process wasn’t fair. Apparently, a judge issued an order to keep her in the country for a hearing, but CBP had already sent her packing. To that, I say: good. Why waste time and taxpayer dollars on a hearing when the case is so obviously cut and dry?
The bigger question here is how someone like this managed to land a job in an American medical school in the first place. Experts like Jonathan Schanzer have been sounding the alarm for years: extremist ideologies have infiltrated higher education, and universities have been willfully blind to it. It took the horrors of October 7th and the ensuing chaos on American campuses to finally force people to wake up. But this problem has been festering for decades, and it’s still happening.
Now, of course, Brown University is scrambling to do damage control, issuing vague “travel guidance” emails to its international students and faculty, warning them to reconsider leaving the country. Translation: “We know there are more cases like this, and we’re trying to cover our tracks before DHS finds them.”
And let’s be clear—this isn’t about free speech. Alawieh isn’t an American citizen. She’s a foreign national on a visa, and she has no right to be here if she’s supporting terrorist organizations. As Schanzer put it perfectly: “Foreign nationals who are terror supporters do not have a right to live in this country.” End of discussion.
Foreigner Dr. Rasha Alawieh admitted she flew from the US to Lebanon to attend the funeral of a Hezbollah leader.
As such, she had her reentry to the US denied.
Seems justified to me. pic.twitter.com/fXvnIs83dY
— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) March 18, 2025
This is exactly the kind of decisive action Americans want to see from their government. No more coddling, no more loopholes, no more pretending that “academic freedom” is an excuse for harboring people who openly sympathize with those who wish us harm. Alawieh made her choice. Now, she can live with the consequences—back in Lebanon, where she belongs.
