Aslanyan

MEMORANDUM **

Alis Andraniki Aslanyan, a native of Syria and citizen of Armenia, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals which summarily affirmed an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of her applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . Reviewing for substantial evidence, Singh v. INS, 134 F.3d 962, 966 (9th Cir.1998), we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s conclusion that Aslanyan failed to establish past persecution or a well founded fear of future persecution. See id. at 969 . The harassment and discrimination Aslanyan experienced in Armenia did not rise to the level of persecution. See Hoxha v. Ashcroft, 319 F.3d 1179, 1182 (9th Cir.2003). The stabbing of her son by a drunk neighbor is not past persecution. See Rostomian v. INS, 210 F.3d 1088, 1089 (9th Cir. 2000). Additionally, because Aslanyan’s daughter remains unharmed in Armenia, and because she did not show she was individually targeted for persecution in the face of the general, societal discrimination against people of Azeri or Middle Eastern descent,…