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An ex-Obama adviser has come under fire after he made Islamophobic comments to a food truck vendor in New York City. Stuart Seldowitz, who worked on the National Security Council South Asia Directorate under the former president, was caught on video berating a vendor while accusing him of being a “terrorist.”
Seldowitz was the acting director for the National Security Council South Asia Directorate under Obama and worked in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs from 1999 to 2003.
He asked the man: “Did you rape your daughter like Muhammad did?”
When the vendor told Seldowitz he didn’t speak English, Seldowitz said: “That’s why you’re selling food in a food cart, because you’re ignorant. But you should learn English, it’ll help you when they deport you back to Egypt and the Mukhabarat wants to interview you.”
“That’s why you’re selling food in a food cart because you’re ignorant. But you should learn English, it’ll help you when they deport you back to Egypt and the Mukhabarat wants to interview you.”
Seldowitz
In a second video the vendor can be heard begging Seldowitz to leave, asking “please.” But, Seldowitz continues to make his remarks.
Since the video surfaced a lobbying group has cut ties with Seldowitz. Gotham Government Relations subsequently took to X and stated: “Gotham Government Relations has ended all affiliation with Stuart Seldowitz, an individual who hasn’t contributed to our work in years. The video of his actions is vile, racist, and beneath the dignity of the standards we practice at our firm.”
Seldowitz’s page has also been removed from the company’s website.
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The video was posted by a Twitter user named Layla, a graduate student at the Columbia School of Social Work who asked people to identify the then-anonymous man in the video.
“This man was berating and harassing a halal cart vendor off 83rd Street and 2nd Avenue in NYC,” she wrote. “Does anyone know who this man is? Planning to report him to the authorities.”
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