Ivy League Professor Who Attended Terrorist’s Funeral Deported By Trump Admin

The Trump administration deported a Lebanese doctor and assistant professor who allegedly attended the funeral of a terrorist leader and carried material sympathetic to other commanders.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed on X Monday that they had carried out the deportation of Rasha Alawieh, a Lebanese national previously living and working in the U.S. on an American visa.

“Last month, Rasha Alawieh traveled to Beirut, Lebanon, to attend the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah — a brutal terrorist who led Hezbollah, responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade terror spree,” DHS said in a public statement. “Alawieh openly admitted to this to officers, as well as her support of Nasrallah.”

She admitted to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials that she attended Nasrallah’s funeral, but said she supported him “from a religious perspective” and not a political one, according to Politico. Law enforcement officials allege they also located several “sympathetic” videos and images of other top Hezbollah leaders in the deleted file of her cell phone, the outlet reported.

“A visa is a privilege not a right—glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be denied,” the DHS statement continued. “This is commonsense security.”

Alawieh, a 34-year-old kidney transplant doctor and assistant professor at Brown Medicine and Rhode Island Hospital, was prevented from re-entering the United States Thursday when she arrived in Boston at Logan Airport from Lebanon, according to court documents.

Judge Leo T. Sorokin of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, an appointee of former President Barack Obama,