Ex Obama Adviser Who Says Killing 4,000 Palestinian Children ‘Wasn’t Enough’ Has Been Arrested

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November 22, the New York Police Department (NYPD) arrested career diplomat Stuart Seldowitz who has worked at the State Department & served as National Security Advisor under President Obama on one count of aggravated harassment in the second degree, harassment, hate crime/stalking, stalking to cause fear, and stalking at place of employment. The crime that he has been arrested for was not an isolated incident either, Seldowitz has been said to have spent at least a year maliciously harassing female Russian diplomats and even attempted to menace the dog of Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations.

Stuart Seldowitz, a former senior political officer in the U.S. State Department, approached Q Halal Cart on 83rd and Second Avenue and launched into an Islamophobic tirade, attacking the operator’s faith and culture and accusing him of supporting terrorists. It was the first of several incidents over a two week period where he berated the operators of the street cart. 

The vendors were said to be scared to speak up because they feared retaliation, according to a friend of theirs and although the NYPD has been called multiple times, apparently the local precinct stated that “there is nothing they can do because it is free speech”. “We never have any trouble with anyone,” said Sam, an Egyptian immigrant who works at the cart. “We have been nice to the homeless in the community too. Every day we give away free food when we have leftovers.”

Humanitarian Worker

The behaviour of Stuart Seldowitz is shocking especially considering he was acting director for the National Security Council South Asia Directorate under Obama and was deputy director/senior political officer in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs from 1999 to 2003. More recently, he served as foreign affairs chair for Gotham Government Relations, which announced his new role in a press release in November 2022. 

Seldowitz is also a senior consultant in humanitarian diplomacy for GDC Inc., a logistics company that services places impacted by war and natural disasters. In a Jerusalem Post article from July, GDC’s Chief Executive Officer Moti Kahana specifically called out Seldowitz as a key member of his team. 

In a New York Times interview, he expressed regret for his comments and insisted that he was not Islamophobic. “I’ve worked with Muslims,” he told the Times, “I have many people who are Muslims and Arabs and so on, who know me very well and who know that I’m not prejudiced against them.”

Islamophobic Tirade

He certainly showed prejudice against them on November 7th, when Seldowitz approached the food cart and launched into an Islamophobic tirade which was recorded by Sam’s co-worker Mohamed capturing Seldowitz attacking the vendors faith and culture and accusing him of supporting terrorists. 

Seldowitz mentions his “friends in immigration” and says, “the Mukhabarat wants your picture,” referring to an Egyptian intelligence agency. “The Mukhabarat in Egypt will get your parents. Does your father like his fingernails? They’ll take them out one by one,” he continues, as the man he’s addressing repeatedly tells him to leave and says he doesn’t speak English. 

Seldowitz repeatedly asks, “Did you rape your daughter like Muhammad did?” When the man again says he doesn’t speak English, Seldowitz calls him “ignorant.”  “Muhammad, your prophet… He was a rapist,” he says. 

Seldowitz then asks the man if he speaks Arabic, “the language of the Quran.”  “The holy Quran that some people use as a toilet. What do you think of that, people who used the Quran as a toilet? Does it bother you?” he asks, laughing. 

He then berates the man for not speaking English. “That’s why you’re selling food in a food cart, because you’re ignorant. But you should learn English, it’ll help you when they deport you back to Egypt and the Mukhabarat wants to interview you.” 

“You support killing little children. You’re a terrible person,”

A second video shows Seldowitz holding up two buttons to the food cart’s windows, one says Israel on it; the other is hard to discern. “It’s not my fault that you pray to a criminal,” Seldowitz says when the food cart employee opens the windows. The employee asks Seldowitz to leave “please,” but Seldowitz refuses. 

“I’m going to put up big signs here that say ‘This guy believes in Hamas,’” Seldowitz says and accuses the vendor of not having a permit or visa. When the vendor says he’s an American citizen, Seldowitz asks how he became a citizen and calls him a “terrorist.” 

“You support killing little children. You’re a terrible person,” Seldowitz says. The vendor responds, “You kill children, not me.” Seldowitz says:

“If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, you know what, it wasn’t enough. It wasn’t enough.” 

In October, Seldowitz was interviewed about the Israel-Hamas war in an hour-long podcast by Amy Peikoff. Peikoff is former chief policy officer of Parler, a “free speech” social media network favored by right-wing users for its lack of content moderation.  

He said Hamas was to blame for any Palestinian civilian deaths and said reports about the poor conditions in Gaza are exaggerated. “The Israelis will and have in the past done almost everything that can reasonably be expected to keep civilian casualties down as low as possible,” he said, describing the Israeli Defense Forces as a “moral army.” 

“Responsibility for the civilian casualties can squarely be laid at the doorstep of Hamas.”    Seldowitz also told Peikoff it’s “very hard” for Americans to relate to Palestinians “because their culture, their history, their religion and so on is so different than most of us.” 

Malicious Harassment of a Female Russian Diplomat

But Seldowitz’s outburst was not an isolated incident. “In fact, he’s a personification of the marriage between rank bigotry and the axiomatic extremism of cross factional US foreign policy consensus.” according to the Grayzone, who says “Before his rise to internet stardom, Seldowitz spent at least a year maliciously harassing female Russian diplomats and even attempted to menace the dog of Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Dmitry Polyanskiy.” Source

The ambassador told The Grayzone that seeing the footage of Seldowitz was a “revelation” for him because he and his team were “harassed by him for more than a year and we couldn’t identify him.”  According to Polyanskiy, Seldowitz even tried to “harass” his dog while on a walk. “Which is too much for me,” the ambassador added.

Seldowitz was among a group of demonstrators against Russia at the United Nations following the launch of its military operation in Ukraine, and would stake out the entrance to the Russian mission in order to follow and insult diplomats leaving their workplace.
“He was persistent and he was personal. That’s the problem,” Polyanskiy insisted. “We don’t have problems with someone expressing concerns or disagreements with our policies, but when it becomes personal and a person really harasses and stalks women, insulting them, telling them they are ‘whores’ and all these things, this is something that we couldn’t put up with,” he told The Grayzone.

In one video obtained by The Grayzone, Seldowitz can be seen verbally assaulting a person taking a cigarette break outside the Russian mission to the United Nations. Seldowitz refers to the person’s female colleague as “whorish,” then approaches her and asks, “are you one of Putin’s prostitutes?”

According to Polyanskiy, the New York Police Department did nothing to stop Seldowitz or assist the diplomatic team in identifying their serial harasser, dismissing it as a free speech issue. Seldowitz only called it quits when “ordinary Americans just tried to reason with him and to tell him that he’s doing bad things.” Source

The Government Mindset?

Seldowitz spree of racial abuse seems to have come to an end. Not only was he arrested, but also on Tuesday afternoon, Gotham Government announced on Twitter that it had cut ties with Seldowitz. 

“Gotham Government Relations has ended all affiliation with Stuart Seldowitz, an individual who hasn’t contributed to our work in years. The video of his actions is vile, racist, and beneath the dignity of the standards we practice at our firm,” the statement said. His page has also been removed from the firm’s website. 

Also on Tuesday, Kahana, an Israeli-American, from the GDC tweeted that he heard about a “confrontation” involving Seldowitz.  “I do not know the specific details of the event, and I and GDC’s team condemn such language. Mr. Seldowitz has worked with us in the past and saved thousands of Muslim lives in Afghanistan and Syria. We will await further details,” he said.  

Racist remarks and harassment from ignorant individuals is alway repugnant, but especially so when that individual has been in government positions.

Chay Bowes writes it is a “fascinating insight into the mindset at the U.S. State department.” This is not acceptable and those who are guilty of similar behaviour should not go unpunished.

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Eyez Wide Open
Eyez Wide Open
5 months ago

We think we are secure when we are part of a larger group, a nation, a religious belief, an ideology, or other. But belonging to a group which divides itself from the rest of humanity creates a division in humanity and a division is the ground for all of conflict. The divisions are psychological and traditional in nature, and behind every one of our divisive outlooks lies the life of a human being. So steeped in our traditional outlooks are we educated to be that this madness is what fuels the spending of tens of trillions on weapons of war yearly, enough to solve global poverty in 1.5 years. And we allow our lives to be run by politicians,whose very job is to keep us divided, believing that we can indeed find secuirty in our little corner of the world. The world will never be secure until all people are secure and all people will never be secure until we stop seeking security where it will never be found, in idenitifcation, ideology and tradition.

truthshouldnothurt
truthshouldnothurt
Reply to  Eyez Wide Open
5 months ago

You speak with insight and make me think. The problem, I fear, will ever be the Nature of Humans that wants to control, take over, be the one in charge and the one to make all the rest do their bidding. It is in human nature that there will be those who, like Lucifer in Heaven, want to have the utmost power and be able to rule over all the rest. This type wants to own everything and will kill everything and everyone in their way to get it. Thus it appears that Gaza holds the Palestinians yet some Israelis want to drive them out and take their land. It can be seen in the Bible Old Testament how God sent his people, Israel, into lands to inherit them. Remember the most famous battle of Joshua and how he took Jericho.
When the people, after the flood, built a tower just in case they needed to escape rising waters (even though God had promised not to send another flood). God divided them from one another by sending many languages among them. So the Tower of Babel was abandoned and Babel gave us ‘babbling’. In other words, it is illustrated that human beings shall never be one in agreement together, because there will always be separate peoples, countries and Kingdoms and always there will be people who want absolute power over all others.
Our enemy today is those who are trying to break that world of differentiation into different countries and states. A small group of extraordinarily rich and thus powerful people are in the process of taking control of the world as a One World Government and issuing a surveillance capitalism so we become slaves, not paid unless we conform to the rules they set, unable to travel anywhere they do not permit, allowed access only to information and indeed anything at all that they deem we may have. This is being instated, bit by bit, and people are letting it happen.

Islander
Islander
Reply to  truthshouldnothurt
5 months ago

Genesis 11:4 reads “…and they left off to build the city.”

“They” (TPTB/globalists) will return to rebuild the literal city of Babylon on the plain between the two great rivers. I don’t know exactly how quickly this depopulation agenda will gather apace, but I believe once the dust has settled “they” will come together with great energy to build “the great city of Babylon”.

Revelation 18 tell us in no uncertain terms that the literal city of Babylon will be standing before it is destroyed.

Many believe that they built the tower “to escape rising waters”, but wouldn’t they have built the tower on one of the nearby hills or mountains rather than on a plain, if that were the case?

Regardless, the Scripture says that it was their intention “to reach unto heaven”. They considered it eminently possible on a geocentric Earth-which it is.

Mark Deacon
Mark Deacon
Reply to  truthshouldnothurt
5 months ago

Why I say humanity is a failed species … it will never let down its violent mentality and greed especially by elites who consider all human beings 2nd rate humans and can be exterminated.

If people bothered to think COVID showed this.

Allowing those who think this to continue accepting COVID you have to assume it will get 100x worse.

Shown in this article .. .when 4,000 dead children is not enough.

Tony Ryan
Tony Ryan
Reply to  truthshouldnothurt
5 months ago

History, and close-up observation, shows you are dead wrong. The average person has no interest in controlling anyone else. The vast majority of people want the same thing, for their family to be happy and mildly prosperous.

It is your belief in hierarchy that betrays you. You are foolish enough to elect others to do your thinking for you. Democracy is what Lincoln defined: “Government of the people, by the people and for the people” with nobody in between to manipulate your intent, or to feed you false information.

Read and learn. Think for yourself. Think of your family, Then tell the administration what you want them to do. If we all do this they are screwed. They cannot then run their profitable wars for power and control.

truthshouldnothurt
truthshouldnothurt
5 months ago

Sickening, utterly sickening. It literally has made my stomach heave. I cannot express how desperately distressed I feel for this man’s Victims. That poor Muslim man, simply serving food, doing something good for the community, has to hear this horrific abuse. Worse, he is given a tirade of dreadful and disgusting insults about his religion. To cap it all, the Police call this ‘freedom of speech’,
In the UK there are laws about what you may say publicly about a person’s religion. I hope that Seldowitz would have been arrested first time he attempted such evil behaviour here.
But when the Israel-Hamas attacks began there were clear announcements of allegiance to Israel from so many Leaders of western countries. I was aghast. It was not for them to take up sides. Their duty was to try and bring a peaceful resolution and protect innocent civilian victims.
Yet we saw Leaders of countries in the west immediately show affinity to Israel at the outset of the current crisis. I was aghast. Their duty was to try and bring a peaceful resolution and protect the innocent civilians.
Heaven forbid there is an ingrained racial prejudice at the top of the West’s governance.

Donald Drumpf
Donald Drumpf
Reply to  truthshouldnothurt
5 months ago

It’s time people RISE UP and say ENOUGH. Our world is controlled by satanic Zionists who run our banking system. They can print as much “fiat” funny money as they want since it’s privately held by the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Warburg, Goldman, Sachs, etc families.

If people would just ORGANIZE and descend on the City of London (1.5 square mile autonomous state) and Wall Street and demand the end of the central banking cartel ruining our world and prosecuting and returning to the citizens the $50+TRILLION they’ve stolen through usury (interest on printing OUR money), we may finally get somewhere.

Personally I’m tired of people praying for it to go away. Writing notes while they go on with their days and lives wishing this insidious EVIL would go away. IT WON’T. They only understand uncompromising resistance. I said prior, I am willing to die for my family to get out from under this satanic Zionist Banking Cabal. Is anyone willing to join me?

Jerry Alatalo
Jerry Alatalo
5 months ago

There is no possible morality-based reason for Stuart Seldowitz and “humanitarian diplomacy senior consultant” to become mentioned in the same sentence.

TAM ukc
TAM ukc
5 months ago

Excellent article thank you so much

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TheLastCaucasian
TheLastCaucasian
5 months ago

Whilst I feel sorrow for any child caught up in this terrible conflagration, I have little to no pity for an adult who would follow a religion that is steeped in violence rape slavery murder and terror.

One should never forget that the palestinians overwhelmingly elected Hamas, A terrorist organization, to lead heir country. The only reason that hamas didn’t get even more of the vote is because much of the votes went to their opposition who were even more extreme in their hatred of Israel and of the jewish people. You can look at the election results which are public, and see that Palestinians voted for anti-israeli parties in general around 80%. Hamas got approximately 60% and the other more extreme anti-israeli parties got approximately 20%. But you have 80% of the palestinian population voting for parties that call for the Wholesale elimination of Israel – It groups that had already at that point committed countless acts of violence against the men, women, and children of Israel.

The only organizations that are allowed to do polling in Gaza are ones that will do so in a manner that willappeal to western audiences yk make the palestinians appear sympathetic – but even these western based pollsters reveal that, IN 2023, the majority of palestinians support Hamas (in the last poll from 2023 that I could find):

From a western pro-Palestinian source:

July 2023 57% of Gazans expressed a positive opinion of Hamas (I can’t post the link or this will be removed as spam, but: This was reported by the “Washington Institute” article, citing another notoriously pro Palestinian NGO, “The Palestinian Center for Public Opinion”).

So we can expect that these numbers were made to try make palestinians look they don’t support terrorists. But sadly most do – and many of their detractors don’t support them because they think they play-nice with israel.

Kamaca
Kamaca
Reply to  TheLastCaucasian
5 months ago

After reading your shockingly misguided post I really didn’t know where to begin – it would take pages to explain how wrong your basic suppositions are.

It’s easier just to ask you one simple question:
Would you have considered the French Resistance during WW2 to be “terrorists?”

Think about it . . . .

Tony Ryan
Tony Ryan
5 months ago

This is the real US administration. Sullivan, Rice, Blinken, Graham, Nuland, Biden; all of them, fanatical psychopaths who are in the process of dragging Americans into a war with Iran, Turkey, Russia and China; a war that the US cannot win.

Contrary to Hollywood-inspired American belief, all of these nations have superior military strength to the US, and the US is broke and out of ammunition.

There will be no allies to come to the rescue. France and Germany are barely hanging on to their economies; the UK would have mass insurrection if it attempted to intervene, and Australians have already warned Albanese to not even think such dangerous thoughts. Anyway, our Australian military is now owned by the incompetent woke Pentagon, so Biden has shot himself in the foot on this one.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
5 months ago

20 years ago indoctrinated Gazan children grew up to be the murderous rapists that attacked Israel.

Oooh the poor Gazan children of today. What to do??

Kill’em all and let god sort them out!

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