Former Obama advisor: Killing 4,000 Palestinian kids 'wasn't enough'

Stuart Seldowitz, who worked on the National Security Council under the Obama administration, launched a racist tirade against a New York City food truck vendor.

In one of two separate videos posted on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, Seldowitz threatens a food vendor with deportation back to Egypt and potential torture at the hands of the country’s notorious intelligence services.

Three videos have emerged so far, and users on X said Seldowitz has been harassing vendors for two weeks.

“The Mukhabarat in Egypt will get your parents. Does your father like his fingernails?” said Seldowitz, who was a deputy director/senior political officer in the US State Department’s Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs from 1999 to 2003.

More recently, Seldowitz served as foreign affairs chair for Gotham Government Relations, a political lobbying group.

On Tuesday afternoon, Gotham announced that it had cut ties with Seldowitz, calling his actions “vile, racist, and beneath the dignity of the standards we practise at our firm”.

While the vendor asks Seldowitz to leave, the former Obama official says: “If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, you know what, it wasn’t enough. It wasn’t enough.”