Activists to ask USC President to initiate emergency campus student dialogue NBC Los Angeles [Video]

Activists on Monday plan to ask USC President Carol Folt to initiate an “emergency campus student dialogue” in response to campus protests over the war in Gaza.

A demonstration at USC is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m., at the USC entrance on the corner of Hoover Street and Jefferson Boulevard.

The groups have gathered at USC and UCLA in recent days to demonstrate support for Palestinian and Israeli efforts in the Middle East during the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

At UCLA, police set up barricades before hundreds of protesters from both sides joined a growing crowd Sunday near tents where pro-Palestinian students have been housed 24 hours a day.

Pro-Israel protesters who arrived for a rally “in support of Jewish students” said their goal was to “rise up against hatred and anti-Semitism.” The counterprotest was organized by the Israeli-American Council, whose leader Elan Carr urged protesters …