{"id":65370,"date":"2025-03-15T11:06:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T05:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/indian-phd-student-self-deports-from-us-over-alleged-hamas-ties-highlighting-increased-scrutiny-on-pro-palestinian-activism\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T11:06:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T05:36:29","slug":"indian-phd-student-self-deports-from-us-over-alleged-hamas-ties-highlighting-increased-scrutiny-on-pro-palestinian-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/indian-phd-student-self-deports-from-us-over-alleged-hamas-ties-highlighting-increased-scrutiny-on-pro-palestinian-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian PhD student self-deports from US over alleged Hamas ties, highlighting increased scrutiny on pro-Palestinian activism."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ranjani Srinivasan, an Indian doctoral student formerly enrolled at Columbia University, has voluntarily left the United States after her visa was canceled due to accusations of supporting Hamas. This incident sheds light on the growing attention towards international students engaging in pro-Palestinian activities. The Department of Homeland Security, attributing the visa cancellation to security reasons, has underlined the stringent measures in place. Srinivasan, with an impressive academic history that encompasses educational stints at prestigious institutions like Harvard and Columbia, has become a focal point in this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranjani Srinivasan, an Indian doctoral student formerly enrolled at Columbia University, has voluntarily left the United States after her visa was canceled due to accusations of supporting Hamas. This incident sheds light on the growing attention towards international students engaging in pro-Palestinian activities. The Department of Homeland Security, attributing the visa cancellation to security reasons, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":65371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-119031169imgsize-23356.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-119031169imgsize-23356-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-119031169imgsize-23356-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-119031169imgsize-23356-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-119031169imgsize-23356-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-119031169imgsize-23356.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-119031169imgsize-23356.jpg",1280,720,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/author\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/category\/just-in\/\" rel=\"category tag\">JUST IN<\/a>","tag_info":"JUST IN","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}