Darializa Avila Chevalier, a far-left congressional candidate backed by New York City’s Democratic Socialists of America and described as an ally of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, is facing scrutiny over remarks suggesting the United States has committed atrocities worse than those carried out by Hamas.
Chevalier made the shocking assertion in June 2021 — two years before the terrorists would launch their widespread Oct. 7 slaughter of innocent Israelis — while responding to a Twitter post from someone saying, “I agree the US wanton violence is categorically incomparable to the worst things Hamas has ever done or ever could do.”
In one post, Chevalier wrote, “Only one is a nuclear power that’s ever used that kind of force 😶,” an apparent reference to the United States dropping atomic bombs on Japan during World War II.
Two minutes later, she followed up with, “Not to mention the countless other forms of colonial violence that it’s enacted but you know 🙃.”
Hamas has long been designated a terrorist organization by dozens of countries. The group has carried out suicide bombings and other deadly attacks and rejects Israel’s right to exist, according to the Council on Foreign Relations.
Chevalier is running as an insurgent challenger to longtime Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat in the upcoming primary for New York’s 13th Congressional District, which includes northern Manhattan and parts of the western Bronx.
Her latest controversy adds to criticism over other inflammatory social media activity. Among the incidents drawing attention is her appearance at a Times Square rally on Oct. 8, 2023, one day after Hamas’s massacre of Israeli civilians. The demonstration became notorious after participants were seen celebrating the attack, and swastikas were reported at the event.
On Oct. 8, 2023 — just one day after Hamas’s massacre of Israeli civilians — Chevalier appeared at a notorious Times Square rally where demonstrators celebrated the terrorists’ atrocities and where swastikas appeared.
The event was so extreme that even fellow lefty DSA Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she was “appalled and horrified” by the hate fest.
Chevalier also tweeted a photo of a biracial couple in 2019 while blasting black and Arab men for “fetishizing ugly colonizer women.”
In addition, the pol peddled a crackpot COVID-19 theory claiming the deadly virus originated in France — and quoted a Chinese Communist propaganda mouthpiece as evidence.
There is wide consensus that the virus originated in Wuhan, China — either from a food market or a lab.
In addition, the wannabe rep referred to former President Joe Biden as a “rapist” and said, “F–k Kamala Harris”, the former vice president and 2026 Democratic presidential candidate.
Biden has vehemently denied allegations from a former Senate aide that he sexually assaulted her in 1993 and has never been charged.
Espaillat, 71, has produced an attack ad slamming her tweets and saying the 32-year-old challenger is not ready for prime time.
Chevalier and her campaign had no immediate comment.
