Detained by DHS Over Israeli Criticism

I was detained and questioned by the Department of Homeland Security yesterday

for

three hours about Israel. I returned yesterday from my trip to

Lebanon,

and through the passport line, they immediately took my passport,

put it in a red

folder, and said, "The DHS has to speak with you." Of

course, I went.

They didn't let me take my luggage.

And when I get there, they start asking me questions about me,

my family, my

friends, where I went to high school. They wrote everything down.

I'm not gonna lie to them. They looked through my social medias,

and then they

asked me, "Have you ever doxxed anyone?" I said,

"No." "Have you ever doxxed a

politician?" I said, "No." "Have you ever said anything

negative about an Israeli

politician?" I said, "Yes." Now there's not one guy.

Now there's two guys, agents with the badges around their necks,

asking me

questions, and they say, "Why would you do that?" They

were talking about

a tweet about Ben-Gvir, an Israeli minister, I made in April of

2026. They told me, "Do not do that again.

Do not make a negative tweet about him." After about 30 minutes more of

questioning why would I criticize Ben-Gvir of the Israeli government,

took more information, my phone number, my email, my address, and then they said,

"Do not do this again." In that moment, I said, "Okay," and

I went home. I'm an American. I was born in the United States.

I live in the Deep South. I'm a Christian.

I hunt, I fish, I watch baseball, I watch football.

I am an American citizen, and I was denied entry into my country and

questioned and detained for three hours, and ultimately,

I was questioned about an Israeli politician. That's,

that's where we're at now.

Truthfully, it was scary because my own government

is questioning me about a

foreign government. What if they have something against me?

That's what I'm thinking now in my home the next day after.

If Israel has something against me, they're already getting my government to

deny

me entry. It's scary.