SouthernWorldwide.com – A socialist candidate, endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who secured victory in Tuesday night’s primary election for New York’s 13th Congressional District, is revealed to have founded a college group with the stated objective of “eradicate[ing]” Western civilization.
Darializa Avila Chevalier, 32, a Democratic nominee for the U.S. Congress, who has built a career in “community organizing,” detailed in her biography for an opinion piece published by the independent news outlet The Electronic Intifada that she “helped launch the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign Columbia University Apartheid Divest.”
The group, Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), expressed its goal in a now-deleted 2024 Instagram post stating, “We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.”
In May 2024, eight years after graduating from Columbia, Chevalier returned to campus to advocate alongside the group she co-founded, CUAD. She was seen wearing a keffiyeh and a t-shirt bearing the organization’s name.
Avila Chevalier was interviewed by the Associated Press at the university’s encampment protesting Israel that year, an event that was later dispersed by law enforcement.
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Just months after these events, CUAD reportedly caused significant controversy when it published its objective to eradicate Western Civilization.
The group’s statement continued, “We stand in full solidarity with every movement for liberation in the Global South. Our Intifada is an internationalist one — we are fighting for nothing less than the liberation of all people.”
“We reject every genocidal, eugenicist regime that seeks to undermine the personhood of the colonized,” the group further asserted.
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Columbia University has issued a strong denouncement of CUAD, emphasizing that it is not affiliated with the institution in any capacity.
Avila Chevalier was born in Florida to Dominican immigrants and has reportedly converted to Islam in recent years.
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The emergence of her affiliation with the group has ignited intense backlash online, including criticism from elected Democratic officials.
“Anti-Israel. Anti-America. Anti-Western Civilization. Why am I the only Democrat in the U.S. Senate that refuses to excuse this or defend any of those self-identified communists?” Senator John Fetterman, D-Pa., stated on X on Wednesday evening.
Chevalier also made infamous anti-white women and anti-American statements in now-deleted social media posts. In one post, she referred to her home country as “a f—ing disgrace.”
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In another deleted post, she wrote, “I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me.”
X personality Sean Fitzgerald commented, “This lady founded an organization with a stated goal of Eradicating Western civilization, & a bunch of rich white progressives who know she means them, said ‘please do.'”
RealClearInvestigations writer Mark Hemingway remarked, “The real ‘country over party’ test isn’t going to be about Trump. It’s going to be over communist Congress members who literally say they want to eradicate Western civilization.”
In a deeply blue district, Avila Chevalier is widely expected to win the general election in November and enter Congress.
