A man whose resume lists experience as a foreign policy adviser under President Barack Obama has been revealed to be a man in a series of videos expressing Islamaphobic abuse.
Gotham Government Relations, a New York-based firm, “terminated all ties” with 64-year-old Stuart Seldowitz over the videos.
An interview in October revealed that he had served as deputy director/senior political officer at the U.S. Department of State for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs from 1999 to 2003. BitChute.
The original video, which lasts more than two minutes, shows Seldowitz speaking to a halal cart vendor, using profanities for Egyptians and then saying that intelligence agents in Egypt will “get your parents.”
“Does his dad like his fingernails?” They will take them out one by one,” Seldowitz added.
He also says, regarding Israel’s response to the Hamas attack that killed 1,200 people: ‘What if we killed 4,000 Palestinian children? It wasn’t enough.’
A man whose resume lists experience as a foreign policy adviser under President Barack Obama appears to be a man in a series of videos expressing Islamaphobic abuse
This man, wearing a green jacket, was berating and harassing a halal cart vendor at 83rd and 2nd Ave in New York. Does anyone know who this man is? Planning to report it to the authorities. pic.twitter.com/GwklyXpsPH
— Layla
(@itslaylas) November 21, 2023
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“You support killing little children,” Seldowitz says, taking a picture of the salesman and telling him to smile.
He asks him, ‘Did you rape your daughter like Mohammed did?’
Seldowitz calls the man a “rapist” and calls him “ignorant” due to his lack of English, before going on a tirade about the Quran.
‘What language do you speak? You speak Arabic, the language of the Koran, the Holy Koran. That some people use as a toilet,” he says.
‘What do you think of that? People who use the Quran as a toilet. Does it bother you? Does it bother you? Tell me the truth? Do not you speak English? That’s too bad.’
“That’s why you sell food in a food cart, because you’re ignorant, but you should learn English. It will help you when they deport you back to Egypt.”
Gotham Government Relations claimed Seldowitz had not worked there in years, although Vice cited a press release announcing he would be hired by the company as chairman of Foreign Affairs in 2022.
His LinkedIn page shows how he served as acting director of the National Security Council’s South Asia Directorate from February 2009 to January 2011 under President Obama.
Gotham Government Relations, a New York-based company, ‘terminated all ties’ with 64-year-old Stuart Seldowitz over the videos
The original video, which lasts more than two minutes, shows Seldowitz speaking to a halal cart vendor, using profanities for Egyptians and then saying that intelligence agents in Egypt will “get your parents.”
He also says, regarding Israel’s response to the Hamas attack that killed 1,200 people: ‘What if we killed 4,000 Palestinian children? It wasn’t enough.’
this man keeps insulting and harassing the halal cart seller. He ends the video with ‘if we kill 4,000 Palestinian children? It wasn’t enough.” pic.twitter.com/yhu4HSvIEZ
— Layla
his harassment of the Halal Cart vendor at 83rd and 2nd Avenue has been going on for two weeks.
The NYPD was called several times, the local police department stated that “they can’t do anything because it’s free speech.” pic.twitter.com/6LYL40TTFK— Layla
Seldowitz has also worked as a journalist (briefly editing for Bloomberg News), strategist and life insurance agent, according to his LinkedIn page.
Left-wing journalist Matt Binder claimed that Seldowitz served as a State Department agent under five different presidents.
According to his biography at Gotham – which has since been removed – he is a three-time winner of the State Department’s Superior Honor Award.
Tommy Vietor, host of the popular liberal podcast Pod Save America and former spokesperson for Obama and the NSC, clarified his role in a post on X.
“He was a State Department employee for 30 years and was seconded to the NSC during the Obama administration, not a direct appointment. But it is terribly embarrassing for the U.S. government to be associated with this man in any way.”
In the BitChute interview, he claims that people find it difficult to understand the conflict because of their inability to relate to the Arab and Islamic world.
“Their culture, their religion, their history is so different from most of us.”
He adds that he believes that Hamas, based on his readings of their charter, “their ultimate goal is frankly the establishment of an Islamic state and an Islamic caliphate throughout the Middle East and even beyond.” ‘
“Hamas is and was an organization that was not interested in reaching a peace agreement with Israel, not interested in compromise, not interested in negotiating,” he said.
‘They have a very clear vision of the world that Israel must be destroyed, that it must be replaced by a Palestinian state, that it must be replaced by a particularly Islamic state. This does not only apply to Israel.’
DailyMail.com has reached out to Gotham, Seldowitz and the State Department for comment.
Israel and Hamas appeared close to an agreement on Tuesday to temporarily halt their devastating six-week war so that dozens of hostages held in the Gaza Strip would be released in exchange for Palestinians in Israeli prisons.
But as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his cabinet for a vote, he vowed to resume Israel’s offensive against Hamas once the ceasefire ends.
“We are at war and we will continue the war,” he said. “We will continue until we achieve all our goals.”
The Israeli cabinet was expected to vote on a plan that would halt Israel’s offensive in Gaza for several days in exchange for the release of about 50 of the 240 hostages held by Hamas.
Israel has pledged to continue the war until it destroys Hamas’s military capabilities and returns all hostages.
Hamas predicted that a Qatari-brokered deal could be reached in the coming hours.
Mr. Netanyahu acknowledged that the Cabinet faced a difficult decision, but supporting the ceasefire was the right thing to do.
The prime minister appeared to have enough support to implement the measure, despite opposition from some hardline ministers.
Mr. Netanyahu said that intelligence efforts will continue during the pause, allowing the military to prepare for the next phases of the battle. He said the fighting would continue until “Gaza no longer threatens Israel.”
The comments came as Israel and Hamas appeared close to an agreement to temporarily halt their devastating six-week war so that dozens of hostages held in the Gaza Strip could be released in exchange for Palestinians in Israeli prisons.
A woman pastes photos of Israelis missing and held captive in Gaza as officials reportedly consider a deal to secure the release of some hostages
Hamas predicted a Qatari-brokered deal could be reached in the coming hours, while Netanyahu convened top decision-makers to discuss the issue.
“We are advancing,” the prime minister told troops during a visit earlier Tuesday to a training base. ‘I hope there will be good news soon.’
The announcement came as Israeli forces battled Palestinian militants in an urban refugee camp in northern Gaza and around hospitals overcrowded with patients and families seeking refuge.
Netanyahu’s office said the special three-member War Cabinet would meet on Tuesday and would be followed by meetings of his Security Cabinet, a forum of senior security officials and the full Cabinet.
There was no word on whether a vote would take place and details of a deal were not released.
Fighting in the Gaza Strip, now in its seventh week, has moved to the Jabaliya refugee camp
Israeli media reported that an agreement would include a five-day halt to Israel’s offensive in Gaza and the release of 50 hostages held by Hamas in exchange for some 150 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
Israel’s Channel 12 TV said the first releases would take place on Thursday or Friday and last several days.
The talks have repeatedly stalled. But even if an agreement is reached, it would not mean the end of the war, which broke out on October 7 after Hamas militants crossed the border into southern Israel and killed at least 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and had kidnapped about 240 people. others.
