Ex-Obama White House adviser harasses halal cart vendor, says killing of 4,000 Palestinian kids ‘wasn’t enough’

This man wearing a green jacket was berating and harassing a halal cart vendor off 83rd and 2nd Ave in NYC. Does anyone know who this man is? Planning to report to the authorities. pic.twitter.com/GwklyXpsPH

— Layla 🪬 (@itslaylas) November 21, 2023

A former White House security advisor who served under President Obama spewed Islamophobic remarks at a halal cart vendor in New York City on several occasions, according to shocking videos.

Stuart Seldowitz was caught on camera calling the Upper East Side vendor a “terrorist” and berating the man for not speaking English.

The former White House official also suggested the Muslim prophet Mohammed was a rapist and claimed that more Palestinian children should be killed amid the Israel-Hamas conflict.

“If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, it wasn’t enough,” the bigot identified by internet sleuths as Seldowitz said in one of the viral clips posted to X Tuesday. “It wasn’t enough.”

Israeli airstrikes have killed more than 5,000 Palestinian children in Gaza since the current Hamas-Israel war began on Oct. 7, according to UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell.

The former diplomat has been harassing the street vendor on the corner of East 83rd Street and Second Avenue for approximately two weeks, according to the Columbia grad student who posted the videos — filmed from the perspective of the vendor — to X.

Seldowitz is wearing different clothing in the clips, which appear to be filmed at different times of the day.

Seldowitz was caught on camera calling the Upper East Side vendor a “terrorist,” claiming that the Muslim prophet Mohammed was a rapist and berating the man for not speaking English.

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He also said the killing of 4,000 Palestinian children in Israeli airstrikes “wasn’t enough.”

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Seldowitz, who worked as a deputy director/senior political officer in the US State Department’s Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs in the early 2000s, threatens to send a photo of the vendor to his “friends in Immigration” and Egypt’s security services who he said would torture him “when they deport you back to Egypt” in the first video posted to X, which was filmed after sundown.

“Did you rape your daughter like Mohammed did?” he asks the vendor after snapping a photo of him and laughing, the footage shows.

The street vendor tells Seldowitz that he doesn’t speak English — seemingly to get him to leave — but instead, the ex-political aid berates the man, telling him he’s “ignorant” and that’s why he works in a food cart.

In another clip, Seldowitz holds up an Israel pin up to the window of the halal cart and questions the vendor if he has a permit and visa as he repeatedly asks him to leave.

Seldowitz worked as a deputy director/senior political officer in the US State Department’s Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs in the early 2000s before becoming acting director for the National Security Council South Asia Directorate under the Obama administration.

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“You support killing young children,” Seldowitz tells him, claiming that he supports Hamas.

“You kill children, not me. Go,” the vendor waves him off, according to the video.

“I didn’t kill children,” Seldowitz replies. “… If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, it wasn’t enough.”

A third clip shows the former acting director for the National Security Council South Asia Directorate under the Obama administration asking the vendor if he was in the country legally before a construction worker steps in to stop the ongoing harassment.

The Post could not immediately reach Seldowitz for comment, but he confirmed that he was the person in the viral videos to the Daily Beast.

Seldowitz confirmed to the Daily Beast that he was the man in the videos.

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“The bottom line is, yes it’s me,” Seldowitz told the outlet.

He said the videos only show the vendor’s side of the story and that his alleged harassment began after the vendor, he claims, expressed support for Hamas.

The NYPD said the commanding officer of the local precinct is aware of the videos and cops from the precinct “are monitoring the situation.”

Meanwhile, lobbying firm Gotham Government Relations, where Seldowitz was a consultant, announced that it ended all affiliation with him after the videos of his shocking behavior went viral.

“The video of his actions is vile, racist, and beneath the dignity of the standards we practice at our firm,” the company said in a statement.

Seldowitz was also condemned by Mayor Eric Adams, Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

“Islamophobia is hate. Plain and simple,” Adams tweeted. “This vile, disrespectful rhetoric has no home in our city. We reject it — and we’re glad to see we’re not alone.”

“This is hateful, disgusting and unacceptable,” Hochul said on X. “Vile rhetoric like this has no place in New York, and we condemn it in the strongest of terms.”

James also said it was “disgusting, hateful, and New York won’t tolerate it.”