USC offering online class options amid campus protest NBC Los Angeles [Video]

USC informed its faculty members in its journalism department that they have the option of instructing classes online through the end of the week as pro-Palentine activists conducted a demonstration, calling for the school to cut financial ties with Israel.

“Given events on campus, we would like to offer you the option to hold your classes in a hybrid or online modality through the end of the week,” officials from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism said in a message to faculty.

Organizers of the USC occupation — identifying themselves as the USC Divest from Death Coalition — issued a statement saying the demonstration was “in solidarity with the people of Palestine as they resist genocide and continue in their struggle for liberation.”

While there were some heated moments as officers detained some protesters, the demonstration was mostly peaceful, and there were no reports of any arrests or …