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AJC LA Board Members Honey Amado, Shelley Rivlin, and Bob Horning and Assistant Director Siamak Kordestani met with Senator Ben Allen, Chair of the Jewish Caucus, on August 6, 2019. Senator Allen is a member of the body that oversees statewide curriculum, the Instructional Quality Commission. We raised a range of concerns on the proposed controversial ethnic studies curriculum that promotes BDS, omits Jews as a minority groups, and neglects antisemitism.

AJC Assistant Director Holly Huffnagle and AJC Los Angeles lay leader Jay Geller met with Priyatosh Saha, Consul General of Bangladesh at the Sri Lankan National Day celebration in Pasadena, CA. AJC Assistant Director Holly Huffnagle and AJC Los Angeles lay leader Jay Geller sat with the Ambassador of the Sri Lanka to the U.S., Rodney Perera, and his wife, Masako Perera during dinner.

As the debate over the Iran deal rages on in Congress, Israel continues to be targeted by the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, and antisemitic incidents in Europe multiply, the question naturally arises: What can I — one person in the Southeastern United States — do to help?

AJC believes that, out of two less-than-ideal options, neither of which was risk-free, Israel did not choose wisely by reversing its original decision.

We sat down with AJC CEO David Harris to discuss the short- and long-term implications of Israel's decision to bar two U.S. congresswomen, Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, from entering the country due to their support for the anti-Israel boycott movement. We were then joined by Senator Ben Allen, who chairs the California Legislative Jewish Caucus, to discuss the high-profile controversy surrounding the state’s proposed Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum.