A professor at Georgetown University is in hot water on social media over a post where he explained his "hope" for Iran doing "some symbolic strike" on a U.S. military base, igniting backlash on social media and calls for him to be fired."Im not an expert, but I assume Iran could still get a bomb easily," Dr. Jonathan Brown,the Alwaleed bin Talal chair of Islamic Civilization in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University,posted on X on Sunday after the U.S. struck Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday night."I hope Iran does some symbolic strike on a base, then everyone stops. Im surprised this is what these FDD/Hasbara people have been auto-erotically asphyxiating themselves for all these years. Ironically, the main takeaways (in my non-expert opinion, and Im happy to be corrected) from all this have nothing to do with a US attack: 1) Iran can take a licking; 2) if Israel attacks Iranian cities, it gets f---ed up pretty bad. I mean Ive been shocked at the damage Iranian missiles caused; 3) despite his best efforts, Reza Pahlavi HVAC repair services still only third best in Nova."Many conservatives on social media immediately reacted to the post and interpreted it as a college professor wishing for Iran to attack U.S. soldiers or at least put them in harms way.AMERICAN TRAVELERS SHOULD KNOW ESCAPE ROUTES AT TRANSIT HUBS AFTER IRAN STRIKES, SECURITY EXPERT WARNS"Are you kidding me?" conservative commentator Sage Steeleposted on X in response to the post being picked up by the conservative influencer account LibsofTikTok.A Professor of Islamic Civilization at @Georgetown hopes Iran does some symbolic strike on Americans," GOP Rep. Randy Fineposted on X. "Some civilization. The President of Georgetown will be before @EdWorkforceCmte soon. This demon had better be gone by then. We have a Muslim problem in America.""A Georgetown professor wants Iran to attack a US base," Foundation for the Defense of Democracies CEO Mark Dubowitzposted on X, before providing information on the background of Browns wife."Brown is married to Laila Al-Arian, a journalist for the Muslim Brotherhood propaganda outlet Al Jazeera. Her father, Sami Al-Arian, was deported from the U.S. to Turkey. He was accused of providing material support to the US-designated and Iran-backed terrorist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad."FORMER DEM ADVISOR BLASTS 'UNHINGED CALLS FOR IMPEACHMENT' AFTER TRUMP'S IRAN ATTACK AS 'TRULY TDS'Brown's father-in-law, Sami Al-Arian, was deported from the United States to Turkey in 2015 after a long legal battle where he pleaded "guilty" to supporting Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist organization, according to Politico.A 2006 Department of Justice press release said he acknowledged "in the plea agreement that he knew the PIJ used acts of violence as a means to achieve its objectives. Nevertheless, Al-Arian continued to assist the terrorist organization, for instance, by filing official paperwork to obtain immigration benefits for PIJ associate Bashir Nafi, and concealing the terrorist associations of various individuals associated with the PIJ.""Al-Arian admits that he performed services for the PIJ in 1995 and thereafter, when he was a professor at the University of South Florida and after he knew that the PIJ had been designated by President Clinton as a terrorist organization," the press release said."I went to graduate school with Jonathan Brown," Jewish People Policy Institute fellow Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn posted on X. "I'm appalled to see him calling for Iran to attack U.S. troops and his awe at attacks on Israeli civilians. @Georgetown- enough!""These are the people teaching your kids at colleges and Universities," conservative influencer Laura Loomerposted on X. "@Georgetown should fire him."In a follow-up post on Monday morning, Brown told his followers he deleted the post and explained why."I deleted my previous tweet because a lot of people were interpreting it as a call for violence," Brown posted on X. "Thats not what I intended. I have two immediate family members in the US military whove served abroad and wouldnt want any harm to befall American soldiers or anyone!"When reached for comment on his controversial post, Brown told Fox News Digital he "meant something like right after Solimani was killed, with telegraphed warning and no American casualties and no one felt any further need for attacks.""I was calling for de-esclation as I am very opposed to American involvement in foreign wars," he continued.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPA Georgetown University spokesperson told Fox News Digital the university was "appalled" by the social media post."We are appalled that a faculty member would call for a symbolic strike on a military base in a social media post. The original statement is from an individual faculty member and not the University, and the faculty member has since deleted the post and stated that he would not want any harm to befall American servicemembers," the spokesperson said. "We are reviewing this matter to see if further action is warranted. We take our communitys concerns seriously and condemn language which is deeply inconsistent with Georgetown Universitys values."President Donald Trump announced the U.S. had struck a trio of nuclear facilities in Iran via a Saturday evening Truth Social post, which was not preceded by any media leaks of prior indication such strikes were imminent.The president ordered U.S. B-2 stealth bombers to carry out strikes against Irans Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear facilities."Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated," Trump said. "And Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks would be far greater and a lot easier."Fox News Digital's Emma Colton contributed to this report