Chevalier—who is now leading incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat ahead of the June 23 Democratic primary—was helping to raise money in 2014 for Odeh’s bail.
A Democratic Socialist backed by Zohran Mamdani, Darializa Avila Chevalier, who is looking to stage an upset primary victory in New York's 13th Congressional District, openly championed a notorious female terrorist convicted of plotting an Israeli supermarket bombing that killed two people, public records show.
"Help Rasmea come home! 💗💗💗," Chevalier posted to Facebook in December 2014 during the immigration fraud trial in Detroit of Rasmea Odeh, a violent Palestinian operative who'd been released from her life sentence in an Israeli prison as part of a prisoner swap before slipping illegally into the United States.
Chevalier—who is now leading incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat ahead of the June 23 Democratic primary—was helping to raise money in 2014 for Odeh's bail so she could get out of jail in Michigan while she awaited sentencing for an immigration fraud conviction. Odeh was released but was ultimately rearrested and deported to Jordan in 2017 after her sentencing.