Rising Democrat Darializa Avila Chevalier advocated pro-terrorist ‘death to America’ group at Columbia University

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New York socialist House candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier co-founded a pro-Hamas group that led protesters at Columbia University and called for “death to America.”

Chevalier, who won the Tuesday Democratic primary for New York’s 13th Congressional District, “helped launch” the radical group in 2016 as a Columbia graduate, according to her profile on the anti-Israel publication The Electronic Intifada. She beat Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chairman Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) with an endorsement from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

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