Demonstration in support of deported Hasan Nasrallah champion, Dr. Rasha Alawieh, Monday, May 17, 2025, at the Rhode Island State Capitol Building. Presumably Muslim women in hijabs, holding a green banner with white Arabic lettering that reads, “From Gaza to Beirut, the Intifada Will Never Die!” The “Intifada” is synonymous with lethal jihad violence that targets non-combatant Israeli Jews, in fulfillment of Hasan Nasrallah’s “spiritual” Shiite Islamic religious ideology.
Dr. Andrew Bostom’s discussion Tuesday, March 18, 2025, with WPRO’s Matt Allen, embedded just below, followed by short essay.
Monday, March 17, 2025 The Department of Homeland Security issued a simple statement of the “commonsense security” considerations that led to the deportation of Brown University Division of Kidney Disease kidney transplant nephrologist, Dr. Rasha Alawieh:
“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. Alawieh openly admitted to this to CBP (Customs and Border Patrol) officers, as well as her support of Nasrallah. A visa is a privilege not a right—glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be denied. This is commonsense security.”
Multiple media outlets (here; here; here; here) who were given access to Dr. Alawieh’s immigration proceedings documents have elaborated on her fawning admiration of slain Jew-annihilationist, jihad terrorist, Hasan Nasrallah, as a “spiritual” leader.” Alawieh, a Shiite Muslim, reportedly declared, “…if you listen to one of his (Nasrallah’s) sermons, you would know what I mean. He is a religious, spiritual person…His teachings are about spirituality and morality.”
I was a very active clinical kidney transplantation researcher who worked for almost 20-years in the Brown University Division of Kidney Disease. Moreover, as a recognized scholar of jihadism and Islamic Antisemitism, I have studied Nasrallah’s alleged, “spiritualty and morality,” and, understatedly, found it wanting.
Invoking Antisemitic references from the Qur’an, Nasrallah characterized Jews as “apes and pigs,” (Qur’an 5:60) and as “Allah’s most cowardly and greedy creatures.” (Qur’an 2:96; 4:53; 59:13–14). He elaborated these themes into an annihilationist animus against all Jews, not merely Israelis.
Anyone who reads the Qur’an and the holy writings of the monotheistic religions sees what they did to the prophets, and what acts of madness and slaughter the Jews carried out throughout history…Anyone who reads these texts cannot think of co-existence with them, of peace with them, or about accepting their presence, not only in Palestine of 1948 but even in a small village in Palestine, because they are a cancer which is liable to spread again at any moment…There is no solution to the conflict in this region except with the disappearance of Israel….If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say the Israeli…[I]f they [the Jews] all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.
Hasan Nasrallah’s Beirut funeral—which Dr. Alawieh attended, in reverence—was punctuated by the enormous gathered throng of tens of thousands bellowing “Death to America,” and “Death to Israel.”
The Department of Homeland Security acted appropriately in deporting Rasha Alawieh, and I wholeheartedly endorse that decision. Particularly as a non-citizen visa holder, there is no place for Dr. Alawieh’s support of a vicious advocate of jihad terror, and mass-murdering Jew-hatred, in the U.S., let alone in U.S. medicine.
Finally, I further denounce those feckless, morally blind medical “academics” who are seeking Dr. Alawieh’s return to the U.S., and reinstatement at Brown University’s Division of Kidney Disease. A scene pathognomonic of their willful ignorance unfolded Monday evening, 3/17/25, on the steps of Rhode Island’s State Capitol building. While Alawieh’s supporters including, sadly, former colleagues, stood enraptured facing the speaker’s location, adjacent to it, a group of presumably Muslim women in hijabs, held a green banner with white Arabic lettering that read, “From Gaza to Beirut, the Intifada Will Never Die!” The “Intifada” is synonymous with lethal jihad violence that targets non-combatant Israeli Jews, in fulfillment of Hasan Nasrallah’s “spiritual” Shiite Islamic religious ideology.
