Ex-Obama adviser charged with hate crime over food cart rant

Former US diplomat Stuart Seldowitz has been arrested and is facing multiple charges after a video of him harassing a halal cart vendor in New York went viral.

The NYPD has charged Seldowitz with second-degree aggravated harassment, hate crime/stalking, stalking to cause fear, and stalking at place of employment, Documented reported. In the video, Seldowitz, who previously served as deputy director of the US Department of State’s Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs, is seen telling a man selling food: “If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, it wasn’t enough.”

- Al Jazeera

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[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 57 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

served as deputy director of the US Department of State’s Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs

Lmfao, of course

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

which should in a just world be enough to get you charged with hate crimes alone

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

And here all the libs gave Trump shit over putting Kushner in charge. Turns out he was just another in a long line of extremely biased ghouls.