The socialist backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani who won Tuesday night’s primary election in New York’s 13th Congressional District founded a group in college that called for the total destruction of the West. Darializa Avila Chevalier, 32, a Democratic nominee for U.S.Congress who made career out of "community organizing," wrote in her biography for an opinion piece in independent news outlet The Electronic Intifada that she "helped launch the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign Columbia University Apartheid Divest.""We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization," the group said in a now-deleted 2024 Instagram post.In May 2024, eight years after she graduated from Columbia, Chevalier was back on campus advocating alongside the group she founded, known as CUAD, wearing a keffiyeh and a t-shirt emblazoned with the group's name.Darializa Avila Chevalier, Democratic candidate for Congress in New York's 13th Congressional District, speaks with a voter in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan on June 14, 2026, in New York, N.Y.
(Shuran Huang/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)Avila Chevalier was interviewed by the Associated Press at the school's infamous encampment against Israel that year, which was later broken up by police.MAMDANI-BACKED SOCIALIST WITH HISTORY OF ANTI-AMERICAN RHETORIC WINS VICIOUS DEM PRIMARY RACEOnly months after that, CUAD, caused a firestorm when it reportedly posted its goal of eradicating Western Civilization."We stand in full solidarity with every movement for liberation in the Global South," the post continued."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 added.HASAN PIKER CELEBRATES AMERICA BEING 'CLOSER THAN EVER' TO SOCIALISM AS HE BACKS NYC CANDIDATESCongressional candidate Darializa Avila...