NYC congressional nominee co-founded group calling to destroy the West
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The socialist backed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who won the primary election in New York’s 13th Congressional District on Tuesday night, founded a group at the university that calls for the complete destruction of the West.
Darializa Avila Chevalier, 32, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress who has built a career on “community organizing,” wrote in her biography for an opinion piece in the independent news outlet The Electronic Intifada that she “helped launch the Columbia University Apartheid Divest boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign.”
“We are Westerners fighting for the complete destruction of Western civilization,” the group said in a now-deleted 2024 Instagram post.
In May 2024, eight years after graduating from Columbia, Chevalier returned to campus wearing a keffiyeh alongside the band he founded, known as CUAD, and a T-shirt with the band’s name.
Darializa Avila Chevalier, Democratic Congressional candidate in New York’s 13th Congressional District, speaks to a voter in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan on June 14, 2026 in New York, NY. (Shuran Huang/via Getty Images for the Washington Post)
Avila Chevalier was interviewed Associated Press In the school’s famous camp against Israel that year, the camp was later broken up by the police.
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Just months later, CUAD caused a firestorm. reportedly He declared his goal to destroy Western Civilization.
“We stand in full solidarity with every liberation movement in the Global South,” the post continued. “Our intifada is an internationalist intifada; we are fighting for nothing but the liberation of all people.”
“We reject any genocidal, eugenicist regime that seeks to undermine the personality of the colonized,” the group added.
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Congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier speaks at the Get Out the Vote rally at King’s Theater on June 18, 2026 in New York City. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Mayor Zohran Mamdani campaigned with him and other candidates ahead of the Democratic primary and early voting. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Columbia University publicly condemned CUAD and said it had no affiliation with the school.
Avila Chevalier was born in Florida to Dominican immigrants. He converted to Islam in recent years.
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The revelation of his connection to the group sparked intense backlash online, including from elected Democrats.
“Anti-Israel. Anti-America. Anti-Western Civilization. Why am I the only Democrat in the US Senate who refuses to excuse this or defend any of the self-identified communists?” Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., said Wednesday evening.
Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic candidate for Congress in New York’s 13th Congressional District, speaks to voter Maria Rodriguez in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan on June 14, 2026. (Shuran Huang/via Getty Images for the Washington Post)
Avila Chevalier also infamously called out anti-white women and anti-American sentiments in deleted social media posts, once calling her own country a “fucking disgrace.”
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“I forgot to get a napkin, so I wiped my hand on the American flag behind me,” she said in another since-deleted post.
“This lady founded an organization with the goal of destroying Western civilization, and a bunch of rich white progressives who knew she meant them said ‘please do it,'” said X-person Sean Fitzgerald. he said.
Congressional candidates Claire Valdez (L), Brad Lander (second from left) and Darializa Avila Chevalier (R) raise their hands with Mayor Zohran Mamdani during a Get Out the Vote rally on June 18, 2026 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
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“The real ‘party over country’ test will not be about Trump,” said RealClearInvestigations writer Mark Hemingway. “This is going to be about communist members of Congress literally saying they want to destroy Western civilization.”
In a deep blue district, Avila Chevalier is likely to enter Congress in November.
Fox News Digital reached out to Avila Chevalier’s campaign.
