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Former State Dept. Official Arrested in Harassing of Halal Food Vendor
Stuart Seldowitz was charged with harassment after videos showed him berating the vendor with Islamophobic comments...no, it's much worse than that - this is what (((HB269))) is supposed to forestall - this goes far beyond 'attempted littering', wouldn't you say?!?

Brighteon Broadcast News, Nov 24, 2023 - Former US State Dept. official ARRESTED for making terroristic threats against Muslim food vendor in NYC

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STUART SELDOWITZ EXPOSED BY @Lowkey0nline

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A video still taken through the window of a food cart shows Stuart Seldowitz, wearing a green blazer over a polo shirt, standing on a city sidewalk. Stuart Seldowitz was arrested after several videos were posted to social media showing him harassing a food vendor on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.Credit...WABC-TV Erin Nolan

By Erin Nolan Nov. 22, 2023 The former State Department employee and national security official who was filmed harassing a halal food vendor in Manhattan and calling him a “terrorist” was arrested and charged with a hate crime on Wednesday. The former official, Stuart Seldowitz, 64, faces charges that include aggravated harassment and several counts of stalking, according to the police.

The charges were brought after the vendor, whom the police did not name but identified as a 24-year-old man, told the police that a person had approached him several times while he was working and had made Islamophobic comments, causing him to feel “afraid and annoyed.” In several videos posted on social media, Mr. Seldowitz was shown photographing the vendor, threatening to send his picture to “friends in Immigration” and making Islamophobic remarks.

A video still shows Stuart Seldowitz, wearing a gray blazer over a green hoodie, smiling and holding a cellphone with a row of condiment bottles in the foreground. The videos show Mr. Seldowitz returning to the same food cart over several days, and each time refusing to leave. Credit...Q Halal

In one clip, Mr. Seldowitz calls the vendor “ignorant” for not speaking English, and goes on to make derisive comments about Islam’s founder, the Prophet Muhammad. In another, after a brief interaction about children being killed, Mr. Seldowitz says: “If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, you know what? It wasn’t enough.” According to the police, Mr. Seldowitz lives a few blocks from the halal cart’s usual location on the Upper East Side. Attempts to reach him on Wednesday night were unsuccessful.

In a phone interview on Tuesday, Mr. Seldowitz said that he was not Islamophobic and that he had targeted the vendor only after he expressed support for Hamas. The videos do not depict any comments by the vendor beyond his asking Mr. Seldowitz to leave and saying he would call the police. “At that point, I got rather upset and I’ve said things to him, that in retrospect, I probably regret, though — that I do regret,” Mr. Seldowitz said on Tuesday. “Instead of focusing in on him and what he said, I expanded into insulting his religion and so on.”

Mr. Seldowitz said he had held several positions in both Democratic and Republican administrations, including acting director for the National Security Council’s South Asia Directorate and a post in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs. He no longer holds any government positions, he said. The incident came as tensions have escalated between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel groups in the weeks since the Israel-Hamas war began on Oct. 🤐