What follows is one of the most pathetic walkbacks of extremism you will see. And by someone who will soon be in Congress.
The woman circled in red at a New York City march is Darializa Avila Chevalier.
The date?
October 8, 2023, one day after Hamas had slaughtered 1,200 Israelis — the equivalent of over 40,000 dead Americans.
Avila Chevalier is the DSA candidate — backed by Mayor Mamdani — who is headed to Congress this November.
Look at the preprinted sign behind her. Not 24 hours had passed since the Hamas terror attack and the“genocide” blood libel was already mass-produced and ready to deploy.
This was 19 days before Israel even began its ground operation into Gaza.
This march wasn’t a reaction. It was a scripted celebration of Jewish civilian death.
Now, of course, Avila Chevalier is trying to “put into context” her attendance at that March so she did a friendly interview with an ultra-progressive Jewish writer, Peter Beinart. “I think the targeting of civilians is wrong in any context, including on October 7.”
Oh, how convenient.
She then pivoted to her real priority — U.S. tax dollars going to Israel’s “retribution” against civilians, and the sacred “right to resist.”
Translation: Jewish blood on October 7 was complicated. Jewish self-defense afterward is the real crime.
This is the progressive left’s mask-off moment.
They never mourned Jewish slaughter.
Not for a moment.
They instead rushed to defend it with pre-printed signs and slogans about the need to “defend Palestine” and “Zionism is Genocide.” Never a single time on October 8, or at the dozens and dozens of subsequent rallies at Columbia University or in New York City did they ever talk about how “international law” applied to Hamas raping, burning, and beheading Jews.
Avila Chevalier didn’t show up to grieve innocents. She showed up to signal whose side she was on the morning after the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
And it is very disturbing she will soon be in Congress.
Never forget who stood with the butchers on Day One.
#NeverAgainIsNow
@diazcayeros It’s appalling what he’s doing. No words. However the comparison is terrible. Is Bukele conducting medical experiments on prisoners? Is he killing them as they come in? No.
Again, not justifying at all his actions but the comparison trivializes Auschwitz.
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Rarely does one finds such high level of consensus among this group of academic economists that a policy proposal is a terrible idea. As @m_maggiori put it: "This would strike me as one of the worst policy ideas ever."
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