{"id":12662,"date":"2023-11-23T06:23:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T11:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=12662"},"modified":"2023-11-23T06:24:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T11:24:14","slug":"former-obama-advisor-stuart-seldowitz-arrested-for-islamophobia-rant-killing-4000-palestinian-children-wasnt-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/former-obama-advisor-stuart-seldowitz-arrested-for-islamophobia-rant-killing-4000-palestinian-children-wasnt-enough\/12662\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Obama-advisor Stuart Seldowitz arrested for Islamophobia rant captured on video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former high-ranking U.S. government official has been arrested after he was captured on camera calling a halal food vendor \u201cterrorist\u201d and saying the death of 4,000 Palestinian children in Gaza \u201cwasn\u2019t enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stuart Seldowitz, who previously served as deputy director of the U.S. State Department\u2019s Office of Israel and Palestine Affairs, was arrested on Friday on the grounds of aggravated harassment, stalking causing fear, hate crime stalking, and stalking at a place of employment, said New York police in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The police said that a 24-year-old male victim complained the cops of an individual who allegedly \u201capproached him at his work place multiple times and made anti-Islamic statements multiple time on different dates causing [him] to feel afraid and annoyed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Video went viral this month of multiple debate over Israel and Hamas\u2019 conflict between Seldowitz and the Egyptian man working in a halal cart in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, it wasn\u2019t enough,\u201d Seldowitz was heard saying in one exchange, which was captured on video and posed on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\"If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, it wasn't enough\u2026\"<\/p>\n<p>In a separate incident, US State Department veteran Stuart Seldowitz continues his racist harassment of a street vendor in New York.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GP49aoxFzg\">pic.twitter.com\/GP49aoxFzg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lowkey0nline\/status\/1727074178254373223?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New York arrests former advisor to President Obama, Stuart Seldowitz, and charges him with several charges, including hate crimes.<br \/>\ud83d\udc83\ud83d\udc83\ud83d\udc83\ud83d\udc83\ud83d\udc83\ud83d\udc83\ud83d\udc83\ud83d\udc83\ud83d\udc83\ud83d\udc83 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6uWiicCql6\">pic.twitter.com\/6uWiicCql6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Menna | (@imennahemdan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imennahemdan\/status\/1727546463457046822?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former high-ranking U.S. government official has been arrested after he was captured on camera calling a halal food vendor\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":12665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3751],"class_list":["post-12662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-stuart-seldowitz-arrested"],"reading_time":"1 min 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