Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Armenian, Hellenic, Hindu, Jewish, and Korean Civic Groups Issue Joint Statement condemning California ethnic studies Curriculum

Its not just the Jewish community that  feels left out of the California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum.   The Armenian Assembly of America, Armenian National Committee of America -- Western Region (ANCA-WR), American Hellenic Council (AHC), American Jewish Committee (AJC), Hindu American Foundation (HAF), and the Korean American organization FACE (Faith and Community Empowerment) have showed the state Department of Education just what solidarity looks like:

From the AJC:
Diverse Coalition Urges Department of Education to Rewrite Ethnic Studies Curriculum

Los Angeles – August 13, 2019 – Six major organizations, representing a very large and diverse constituency across California, today called on the state’s Department of Education to set aside the draft Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum and rewrite the document.

The Armenian Assembly of America, Armenian National Committee of America -- Western Region (ANCA-WR), American Hellenic Council (AHC), American Jewish Committee (AJC), Hindu American Foundation (HAF), and the Korean American organization FACE (Faith and Community Empowerment), issued the following joint statement:

“California high school students deserve an opportunity to learn the role of ethnicity, race and religion in the life of all its citizens, including those previously ignored. But the proposed Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, in its current form, does not come close to achieving this admirable goal."

“The draft lacks cultural competency, does not reflect California’s diverse population, and advances a political agenda that should not be taught as unchallenged truth in our state’s public schools."

“We urge the California Department of Education to completely redraft the curriculum, which is replete with mischaracterizations and omissions of major California ethno-religious groups. The groups highlighted in the current draft should be recognized, but not at the expense of everyone else.


From the GV Wire

Armen Sahakyan, executive director of the western region of the Armenian National Committee of America, said the exclusion of his group is troubling.

“It’s certainly concerning to us that this proposed model curriculum has omitted some of the groups that have been living in the state for over 100 years, including Armenians who first settled in California in the Fresno area and have been an integral part of the society of California for over a century,” Sahakyan said.

3 comments:

Shlomo Ben Hungstien said...

Bravo! I certainly hope these fresh perspectives further expose this “ethnic studies” program for being the farce that it is.

Mr. Cohen said...

Josep Borrell Fontelles, the newly elected
Chairman of the European Union,
recently said in an interview in Politico:


“Iran wants to wipe Israel out, nothing new about that.

You have to live with it.”

SOURCE:
Lessons in the appeasement of Iran
by Sarah N. Stern [President of the Endowment
for Middle East Truth] 2019 July 12
www.jns.org/opinion/lessons-in-the-appeasement-of-iran/

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Rabbi Steven Pruzansky said:

“...these days, pointing out the obvious is
a risky proposition, as sundry groups allied
with Leftist, anti-religious or Progressive
causes tolerate only one viewpoint: theirs.”

SOURCE: The Intermarriage Ruckus
by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, 2019/7/14
https://rabbipruzansky.com/2019/07/14/the-intermarriage-ruckus/

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Yigal Carmon
[President of MEMRI dot org] said:


A popular Arab saying goes,

“The Americans are good people
— they can easily be deceived.”

SOURCE:
Americans are good people —
just ask the Qatari Emir

by Yigal Carmon, 2019/7/14
www.jns.org/opinion/the-americans-are-good-people-just-ask-the-qatari-emir

Mr. Cohen said...

Yigal Carmon
[President of MEMRI dot org] said:


“For over two decades, Qatar has been fostering and advancing nearly every terrorist organization that has murdered Americans. It praised Osama bin Laden, and after him Ayman Al-Zawahiri [leader of Al-Qaeda after Osama bin Laden], to the skies.”

SOURCE:
Americans are good people —
just ask the Qatari Emir

by Yigal Carmon, 2019/7/14
www.jns.org/opinion/the-americans-are-good-people-just-ask-the-qatari-emir/

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Yigal Carmon
[President of MEMRI dot org] said:


Two months before 9/11, on Qatar’s
state-run Al-Jazeera TV, [Osama] bin Laden
was lionized in a show dedicated to him.

He was called “the No. 1 Arab and Islamic hero”
and “the conscience of the Arab and Islamic world.”

The program host underlined that as
“the [Muslim] nation thirsts deeply
for someone who will confront America...
not with words and slogans,”
and said that bin Laden was
“the right man for this important role.”

And indeed he was.

SOURCE:
Americans are good people —
just ask the Qatari Emir

by Yigal Carmon, 2019/7/14
www.jns.org/opinion/the-americans-are-good-people-just-ask-the-qatari-emir

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Yigal Carmon
[President of MEMRI dot org] said:


...Qatar cultivates anti-Semitism,
even allowing Muslim Brotherhood
spiritual leader Yusuf Al-Qaradawi,
hosted and protected for decades by Qatar,
to call on its airwaves for a
NEW HOLOCAUST to be carried out
at the hands of the Muslims.”

SOURCE:
Americans are good people —
just ask the Qatari Emir

by Yigal Carmon, 2019/7/14
www.jns.org/opinion/the-americans-are-good-people-just-ask-the-qatari-emir/