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The NYPD has launched a hate crime investigation against Stuart Seldowitz, the former Obama administration adviser who was this week filmed lobbing heinous abuse at a NYC street cart vendor. Seldowitz, 64, routinely visited the street cart on 83rd Street and 2nd Avenue, a block from his Upper East Side home, according to an association of street vendors. In three separate videos shared on Twitter, he was filmed threatening the unidentified vendor, telling him to ‘learn English so you don’t have to work in a cart’ and labeling him a ‘terrorist’. In one, he threatened the man: ‘I’ll send your picture to my friends in immigration.
‘The Mukhabarat in Egypt will get your parents. Does your father like his fingernails? He’ll take them out one by one,’ he said. In one of his most abhorrent remarks, he said: ‘If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, it wasn’t enough.’ Seldowitz last night apologized, telling City and State that he regretted the incident and ‘shouldn’t have raised the religious aspect’. NYC City Council Member Julie Menin – the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor – announced that he was being investigated by the 19th Precinct.
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It’s unclear exactly the scope in which Seldowitz served during the Obama administration. His professional biographies have now been scrubbed from the internet, as have his children’s. One that was online on the website for Gotham Government Relations described him as a former delegate and Middle Eastern adviser to President Obama. Gotham has now cut all ties with Seldowitz and is offering the vendor free help to launch a lawsuit against him.
‘Gotham Government Relations has ended all affiliation with Stuart Seldowitz. ‘The video of his actions is vile, racist, and beneath the dignity of the standards we practice at our firm,’ the firm said. Representatives from the Obama administration are yet to comment. In the videos, Seldowitz ignores the man’s pleas to leave and instead stands in front of him, telling him he has a ‘right’ to be there because he’s American.
‘You don’t speak English? That just shows how ignorant you are. The street vendor ignored Seldowitz’s comments, saying instead that he didn’t speak English. ‘You don’t speak English? That’s why you’re selling food in a food cart. That’s why you should learn English – it’ll help you,’ he said. ‘When they deport you back to Egypt and the Mukhabarat wants to interview you…’ he goes in. The vendor maintained his composure in all of the videos shared online.
‘Do you want to buy something? I am working now,’ he says. Seldowitz refused to leave and said: ‘No I don’t. ‘I’m going to put a big sign here saying “this guy believes in Hamas.” I won’t give you a penny of my money. ‘I don’t want to go. I have a right to stand on the sidewalk. You have no right to be here. You have a permit?’ When the vendor replied that he indeed had a permit and a license, Seldowitz said: ‘But you don’t have a visa?’ He shot back: ‘It’s none of your business.’
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