She Organized the Columbia Encampment. He Made Her His Congressional Candidate.

The mayor of New York has put his name behind a congressional candidate who echoed Putin's talking points on the day Russian missiles hit Kyiv. The endorsement tells you everything about what this machine is building.

On February 23, 2022, Russian forces entered Ukraine. Missiles hit Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Mariupol. Darializa Avila Chevalier posted her response on X: "Cause the Cold War ended and we've been bullying Russia ever since." She deleted the account. Politico preserved the post. The Wayback Machine has it.

On June 5, 2026, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed her for Congress.

The Ukraine post is the newest item in a twelve-year documented record. Canary Mission published her profile. CNN KFile reviewed hundreds of her deleted posts. The New York Times placed her at an October 8 rally. This is not a social media problem. It is a career.

THE INSTITUTIONAL BIOGRAPHY

Chevalier, 32, is running in NY-13 against Adriano Espaillat, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. The June 23 primary covers Upper Manhattan and the West Bronx. NYC-DSA endorsed her in January 2026 with 82% of the membership vote. Justice Democrats endorsed her in November 2025. She outraised Espaillat in Q1 2026.

Her documented anti-Israel organizing began at Columbia University. In 2015 and 2016, per Canary Mission, she was a member of Students for Justice in Palestine and attended the 2015 National SJP Conference in San Diego. She simultaneously organized with Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a BDS coalition of SJP and Jewish Voice for Peace. She helped launch CUAD's BDS campaign, designed the organization's logo, and protested an Israeli official on campus.

She graduated from Columbia in 2016 with a degree in Middle Eastern studies. Her LinkedIn, as of September 2024, also lists a 2014 internship at Tomorrow's Youth Organization in Nablus, West Bank, with coursework conducted at An-Najah National University. Canary Mission identifies An-Najah as the site of a triumphal exhibit commemorating the August 9, 2001 Sbarro cafe suicide bombing, which killed 15 civilians including 7 children and a pregnant woman.

OCTOBER 8, 2023

On October 8, 2023, the day after Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, Al-Awda and American Muslims for Palestine organized a rally in New York City. City & State reports that New York Times photographs placed Chevalier at the event. Canary Mission's video documentation puts her there at the 12:47 mark, wearing a keffiyeh. Canary Mission's documentation describes speakers leading calls for Israel's violent destruction, activists burning Israeli flags, and celebratory commentary about Hamas rocket fire and hostage-taking.

In April 2024, she organized the pro-Hamas encampment at Columbia University.

THE PRIOR RECORD

In December 2014, Chevalier posted on Facebook in support of Rasmea Odeh: "Help Rasmea come home." She shared a petition for the Rasmea Defense Committee. Odeh had been convicted by an Israeli court in 1970 for her role as a PFLP operative in a Jerusalem supermarket bombing that killed two college students, and for an attempted bombing of the British consulate. She confessed the day after her arrest. In November 2014, a Michigan federal jury convicted her of immigration fraud. In 2017, she admitted to the fraud, was stripped of US citizenship, and deported.

In August 2014, during Operation Protective Edge, Chevalier posted "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" on Facebook. The US House passed a resolution condemning the chant as antisemitic in April 2024. She shared material that same month dismissing Hamas's documented use of human shields and supported a Washington rally organized by the ANSWER Coalition.

In a 2018 video posted by Adalah-NY, Chevalier invoked JVP's "Deadly Exchange" campaign on camera, equating NYPD policing with Israeli military operations and stating that American Jewish organizations coordinate with Israeli security forces to advance "worst practices" against Black and Brown communities.

The written record runs in the same direction throughout: "Creating a place for that on another's land is colonialism" (August 2014). "A state in which Israel still claims a Jewish identity...is the basis for codified colonialism and racism" (August 23, 2014). "We could probably bail out Puerto Rico if we weren't spending so much on Israel and its millions of war crimes" (July 2015).

CNN KFile confirmed the full deleted account review. Chevalier told CNN the posts did not reflect who she is today and accused Espaillat of "living in the past."

WHAT MAMDANI ENDORSED

Espaillat voted for Ukraine aid. He condemned Russian aggression. He backed Andrew Cuomo in the 2025 mayoral primary, endorsed Mamdani in the general, and is being primaried anyway. His opponent blamed America for the Russian invasion and attended a rally the day after 1,200 Israelis were murdered. Espaillat has argued on WNYC Radio that her documented record is the only public record on a candidate with no elected experience. He is correct.

Mamdani saw the record. He endorsed her anyway. They appeared together at NBA Finals Game 1, Knicks 105-95 over the San Antonio Spurs. After the game, a WABC-TV ad ran tying Mamdani's endorsements across three simultaneous House primaries: Chevalier in NY-13, former City Comptroller Brad Lander against Dan Goldman in NY-10, and Assemblywoman Claire Valdez. One endorsement slate. One ad buy. One night.

The test applied to all three: where you stood on Israel, AIPAC, and the 2025 Mamdani loyalty call. Lander cross-endorsed Mamdani. Goldman did not. Espaillat backed the wrong candidate in the primary and endorsed the right one in the general. It was not sufficient.

THE MACHINE'S TEST

The Not on Our Dime Act, reintroduced in May 2026 by NYC-DSA Albany members Diana Moreno and Jabari Brisport, would empower the New York Attorney General to dissolve nonprofits deemed to support Israeli settlement activity. Chevalier has spent twelve years building the organizational record that the bill is designed to normalize. She organized the encampment. She supported the convicted PFLP operative. She attended the October 8 rally. She invoked the Deadly Exchange campaign on camera.

Canary Mission documents what candidates prefer not to discuss. The New York Times put her at the October 8 rally. CNN KFile reviewed her deleted account. Mamdani put his name on her congressional race.

Espaillat is the Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair with five terms in office. Chevalier has no elected record. The machine chose her because she passed the test. The test has twelve years of documentation.

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