by Brendan O’Neill, spiked
The hyper-entitled Israel-haters of America’s Ivy League are on their way to Congress.
It’s good to give people the benefit of the doubt. Even idiots deserve a little slack. But there’s one mob I’ll never do that for – the 8 October people. These are the people who marched against Israel before the blood of Hamas’s pogrom was even dry. The people who were on the streets calling the Jewish state a Nazi regime before it had even counted its dead. Unbelievably, one of these 8 October lowlifes now looks set to get a seat in the US Congress.
Her name is Darializa Avila Chevalier. She’s a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). This week, she caused a big upset in the Big Apple by defeating the five-term Democratic congressman for NYC’s 13th Congressional District – Adriano Espaillat – in the Democratic primaries. Given this district is deeply Dem territory, covering Upper Manhattan and parts of the Bronx, she’s all but a shoo-in to win in the general election in November. She’ll be off to Washington.
Not bad for someone who just two-and-a-half years ago was mingling with scum who displayed swastikas and burned the Israeli flag to taunt the Jewish State in its darkest hour. On 8 October 2023, Ms Chevalier, a goggle-eyed Israelophobe, joined a mob in Times Square who were screaming blue murder about the Jewish nation. As the Jews of southern Israel were still succumbing to the wounds inflicted on them by the Islamofascists of Hamas, as Israeli women were still reeling from Hamas’s sexual atrocities, these Ivy League pricks were all but celebrating. ‘Fuck Israel’, they said, as broken Israelis were being wheeled into morgues following the worst act of anti-Jewish violence since the Holocaust.