Black Conservatives Have Made Their Own AIPAC ^38.8%

Jacobin - By Jasmine Wynn - 7/6/2026, 1:33 PM

Biased Writer Voice 50.1% - Confirmation Bias 47.1% - Hasty Generalization 22.8%

On June 23, democratic socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier defeated pro-Israel incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat by 4 percentage points in New York’s Thirteenth Congressional District. However, in the process of campaigning, Espaillat’s team leaned into a rather audacious strategy. It weaponized anti-blackness in a historically black area... more