Stuart Seldowitz, who beforehand served as nationwide safety adviser to former President Barack Obama, has been arrested and charged with a hate crime for harassing a halal meals vendor in Manhattan, berating him with anti-Muslim insults.
“The previous official, Stuart Seldowitz, 64, faces costs that embody aggravated harassment and a number of other counts of stalking, in response to the police,” reported the New York Occasions.
“The fees had been introduced after the seller, whom the police didn’t identify however recognized as a 24-year-old man, informed the police that an individual had approached him a number of occasions whereas he was working and had made Islamophobic feedback, inflicting him to really feel ‘afraid and irritated,’” the Occasions added.
As Breitbart Information reported, the video surfaced on X and appeared to indicate Seldowitz harassing a meals cart vendor close to 83rd and 2nd Avenue in New York Metropolis. Per Newsweek:
Among the many remarks made within the video shot in Manhattan, Seldowitz asks the operator if he “raped [his] daughter” and calls Islamic prophet Muhammad a “rapist,” and means that the killing of round 4,000 Palestinian youngsters in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas battle “wasn’t sufficient.” Affirmation of Seldowitz’s identification arrived when his present employer, lobbying agency Gotham Authorities Relations, introduced that that they had totally parted methods with him.
Video additionally surfaced showing to indicate that Seldowitz had engaged in one of these bullying conduct on not less than one different event.
After the movies had been launched on social media, Gotham Authorities Relations, the agency the place Seldowitz labored, dropped all affiliation with him, calling the video “vile, racist, and beneath the dignity of the requirements we follow at our agency.” pic.twitter.com/iUL2C1gNiu
— VICE Information (@VICENews) November 21, 2023
Gotham Authorities Relations, the lobbying agency that employed Seldowitz, later introduced that it had severed ties with him.
“Gotham Authorities Relations has ended all affiliation with Stuart Seldowitz, a person who hasn’t contributed to our work in years,” it mentioned. “The video of his actions is vile, racist, and beneath the dignity of the requirements we follow at our agency.”
In accordance with Vice, Seldowitz served as “appearing director for the Nationwide Safety Council South Asia Directorate beneath Obama and was deputy director/senior political officer within the U.S. State Division’s Workplace of Israel and Palestinian Affairs from 1999 to 2003.”
“Extra not too long ago, he served as international affairs chair for Gotham Authorities Relations, which introduced his new function in a press launch in November 2022,” Vice added.
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