Author: Samvel Nahapetian

June 12 2023

An Armenian parent in California, who was embroiled in the protest as a Glendale Unified School District board meeting occurred last week, called out a teacher for evoking the Armenian genocide in defense of LGBTQ and minorities in the country.

"It's a completely ridiculous statement. To even conflate the two issues is insane," "Joseph," who does not want to disclose his full name, told Fox News Digital in reaction to the teacher’s statements.

While tensions were high during a protest that eventually devolved into a brawl, the June 6 school board meeting became heated among board officials and community members.

The Glendale Unified School Board listened as members of the public debated LGBTQ+ issues while the board considered a resolution to designate June as LGBTQ+ Pride month.

Some parents spoke up and asked they be given a say over what their children are exposed to in school. They asked for permission to opt their children out of aspects of the LGBTQ+ curriculum. Others defended the district's policies, saying that no one wants to "turn straight kids gay" and pointing out that LGBTQ+ youth are at higher risk for suicide and Pride is about love and acceptance.

A video of a woman, who identified herself as a teacher in the area, spoke in defense of the LGBTQ+ community and criticized the "heteronormative, Judeo-Christian, patriarchal, imperialist, capitalist system."

"I'm a teacher in the district, and I also teach in LAUSD. I have two students in the district," the teacher said. "I deal with a lot of the trauma of LGBT youth related to the heteronormative, Judeo-Christian, patriarchal, imperialist, capitalist system that oppresses them." 

She continued, "Why critical race theory? I'm not just here in support of our LGBTQ youth. It's all connected. I'm in support of critical race theory and diversity, inclusion and equity training."

Many of the parents who were protesting the meetings were Armenian. The teacher attempted to compare the Armenian genocide to the risk of suicide by LGBTQ+ youth and said kids know if they are trans at 3 years old.

"Armenians talk about the genocide, but they received SSI, but they don’t want to talk about the indigenous genocide of 1850 and the lack of reparations for Black and Indigenous people in this country," she said. "How dare you as marginalized people come here, and you don't want to talk about the oppressed trans youth … your kids are even learning what they need to learn in this that 1 in 2 will commit suicide and that 95% of kids will know they're trans when they are 3, 4, or 5 years old."

Joseph took offense to the teacher's comparison.

"A genocide of 1.5 million at least Armenians by the Turkish Ottoman Turks … it's complete gaslighting on the other side," he said. "All I have got to say is kids are not allowed to drink before 21. They're not allowed to have tattoos before 18. They're not allowed to buy guns before 18. And somehow, some way, they have enough common sense to be able to choose what gender they are like."

Joseph was part of the several hundred protesters and a group of Armenians who gathered outside the Glendale Unified School District headquarters in Los Angeles. There were counter-protesters holding Pride flags to show support for gender and sexual identity curriculum in schools.

Tensions hit a breaking point when physical fights broke out between the two sides. It is unclear how the fights started.

School officials said they were deeply saddened by the unrest and that those involved were not affiliated with the Glendale Unified community.

Joseph, who sends his kids to private shool, said the community is going to stand up and aim to "remove this disgusting topic" from schools.

"The bottom line is the Armenian community and all other communities with parents that actually care for their kids … they're going to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Armenian community. And what we're going to do is completely remove this disgusting topic from our schools," he said. "This has no business in our schools if you put any type of sexualization, regardless if you're LGBTQ or straight or gay or whatever it may be, that shouldn't even be discussed at the level that they want to push this, which is 5-year-old, 6-year-old, 7-year-olds."

"It's like it's insanity," Joseph added.

Another parent who was also part of the protest spoke with Fox News Digital and blasted the teacher's comments.

"I've been trying to wake the community up to the gender ideology and the trans policies for several months, and we finally are getting a lot of traction," said "Henry," a father of a 1-year-old and a 3-year-old.

Henry claimed to be the leader in the parental pushback against school administrators.

"None of this would happen without the Armenian parents and community members," Henry said.

Furthermore, Henry told Fox News Digital that though he is not Armenian, he has worked with a "massive number" of Armenian community members – hundreds of those who are involved.

"She is leveraging history to make her very opinionated point, a biased point on gender ideology. She is using the Armenian genocide to justify radicalizing students with their gender identity and destabilizing these students' identities."

Henry said that as a taxpayer in the community he does not feel comfortable sending his kids to public schools within the district.

Fox News Thomas Phippen contributed to this report.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/armenian-parent-scorns-teacher-evoked-armenian-genocide-defending-lgbtq-students-complete-gaslighting.amp 

San Jose State University

SAN JOSE, Calif. – San José State's Irena Muradyan is set to represent her home country of Armenia in the 2023 Billie Jean King Cup. Muradyan and the Armenian team will compete in Europe Group III against 10 other countries for one promotion spot.

"We are so proud of Irena, and we wish her all the success in the upcoming Billie Jean King Cup," head coach Chad Skorupka said.

• This is Muradyan's third year competing for the Armenian team.
• She led the Spartans with 12 singles wins in dual matches, going 12-6 on the season.
• She also had the most doubles wins on the year, going 10-7 alongside Rozalina Youseva.
• Muradyan was named the Mountain West Freshman of the Year in 2021.

Azerbaijan – June 8 2023

The Baroness herself does not promise anything to Karabakh Armenians anymore, not to put in a good word for them in the British Parliament, nor any other help. This proves that she cannot and could not exert any effective influence on anyone.

“It is my hope and prayer that the long-suffering Armenian nation will continue to strive for the opportunity to live in peace and dignity in your own land. This is the blessing that my family and I, along with all Britons, enjoy. For that great privilege I am deeply indebted to those in my nation who, over eighty years ago, chose to endure a great sacrifice, rather than accepting a false promise of peace.”

This is an excerpt from a letter to the Armenians of Karabakh calling for a sacred sacrifice with a reference to Britain’s choice in the face of Nazi aggression. Its author is the notorious Baroness Caroline Cox, who lives thousands of miles away from Karabakh in her house with an English lawn. Disclaimer: We do not associate either the author’s rhetoric or her position with the policies of the United Kingdom, which has not been known to pander to the aggressive Armenian project.

In her message Cox states that the international community has forgotten about them (Armenians of Karabakh—Ed.) and is forcing Armenia to sign peace, although then Baku will organize their “genocide”. The good old Cox scares the Karabakh Armenians and encourages them to fight. A good part of her letter is devoted to the chilling memories of the atrocities allegedly committed against them by Azerbaijanis. Such pronouncements are intended to arouse the spirit of vengeance in the minds of the ethnic Armenian population of the Karabakh region and raise them to fight.

But whatever hints the Baroness used, knowing her love of jingling coins, one could well take this message as a desperate plea to secure a comfortable life for her in her old age. This is, of course, understandable for an elderly woman. Life in London has always been expensive, even more so now, with the energy crisis and the ensuing price hikes. The “miatsum” project has collapsed, the world centers of power have accepted the new reality and seem to have become immune to all kinds of pro-Armenian lobbying initiatives. In the past, the Armenians and their “miatsum” were a godsend to her. While Baroness was munching khorovats, photographing Albanian churches and writing reports on all this, not only was Azerbaijan developing its economy and strengthening its army, it was also building strong relations with the world centers of power. The ones that are now pressuring Armenia to sign a peace treaty with Azerbaijan as soon as possible.

The Baroness acknowledges this, by the way. However, interestingly enough, the letter is addressed not to the world powers and not to Armenians in general, but exclusively to “the people of Artsakh”. In other words, Cox went from lobbying efforts to open blackmail, but without any sanctions. Cox’s message is approximately as follows: I slaved for you for thirty-five years, I gave you the best years of my life, I received money, I got used to delicious food and warm bed, and now, in my old age, you make me turn the knob of my heater? And do you have any idea how much it costs to mow an English lawn? This is not your wild Karabakh grass you put in your flatbreads. Are you suggesting I should live on the wages of a peeress? No, this will not do. You must pay. With blood!

The Baroness herself does not promise anything to Karabakh Armenians anymore, not to put in a good word for them in the British Parliament, nor any other help. This proves that she cannot and could not exert any effective influence on anyone. For years all her fuss with trips (and she visited Karabakh illegally 88 times), sympathetic words and promises simulated help, which was greatly promoted by the world elites pandering to the Armenian aggression. Now that support is gone and it has become impossible to simulate the process. The question, however, is whether Cox is relying on other outside forces. She does not seem to be. Especially since the Baroness’s message, as already noted, is addressed only to the Armenians of Karabakh. She removed even Armenia itself from her audience, apparently convinced of the fatal reluctance of the Armenians of Yerevan to live in enmity with their neighbors. The letter even contains some details of “atrocities.” That is an incitement: you must not forget the “cruelty of the Turks”. If you have forgotten, I will remind you. That is the essence of the message. Something akin to metered injections of a drug. One gets the impression that the Baroness is trying to excite the already pretty bruised center of pleasure in the brains of the Armenians of Karabakh. Yes, Azerbaijani Dr. Iron Fist administered a harsh but effective treatment by removing most of that organ from the patient’s brain. The patient has been in a state of apathy ever since. And then Cox comes to the rescue, slipping them an intoxicating picture of long suffering in the hope of a relapse, forgetting that not only was the surgery effective, but the patient is under the watchful eye of the aforementioned Azerbaijani professional, who seems ready to perform a second operation, or rather, a special operation to destroy the remnants of the Armenian gangs in Karabakh.

Thus, we can say for certain that Baroness Cox’s letter is nothing more than a gesture of despair, a kind of epitaph for “miatsum”, to be inscribed on its tombstone. If we were Armenians, we would read the letter carefully to see in it all the tragedy of the Armenian people. It is not in the description of imaginary atrocities of Turks, but in the way you are manipulated through images of mythical monsters, forced to play the role of firewood, essentially, being prepared to become outcasts in the Caucasus. Take in the Baroness’s lines: you are being told what you want to hear, you are being drugged. Note that it is not you who are trying to convince a foreigner of the atrocities of Turks, but on the contrary, the foreigner is convincing you. Isn’t this a blatant example of the external indoctrination of your mind that has been going on the decades? Now that peace is so close, the foreign bird is once again trying to feed the vile seeds of Turkophobia to the still unfledged Armenian generation with its crooked black beak.

But the good news is that Cox has alerted the world in a way that even the West is pressuring Armenia to make peace with Karabakh being recognized as part of Azerbaijan. She does mention this: “I am deeply disturbed by reports that the Republic of Armenia is being pressured by international powers to contemplate sacrificing your homeland of Karabakh to the Republic of Azerbaijan in return for a so-called peace treaty. If reports are to be believed, those involved in the negotiation process say that the treaty will secure the borders of the Republic of Armenia and allow trade to open up with the Turkish world.”

In other words, it is great that the international community has realized a simple truth better than the Armenians themselves: as long as Armenia does not recognize the borders of Azerbaijan, its own borders are a very arbitrary concept. The leaders in Washington, Moscow, Brussels, Berlin and Paris are in fact just as concerned about the fate of the Armenian people as the Baroness. This is why they strongly recommend Yerevan to forget about the “miatsum” and to think about the fate of its own 29,800 square kilometers, cut out of the historical Azerbaijani lands. Which, by the way, is also a well-known fact.

Murad Abiyev

Translated from Caliber.Az

https://aze.media/cox-on-blood-on-the-baronesss-message-to-the-armenians-of-karabakh/

June 2 2023