A lobbying group has cut ties with an ex-adviser to former President Barack Obama after videos surfaced that show the man making Islamophobic comments and threats to a food cart employee in New York City.
The videos, posted on X (formerly Twitter) by a Columbia University student, shows Stuart Seldowitz asking someone off camera, “Did you rape your daughter like Muhammad did?” and saying that killing 4,000 Palestinian children “wasn’t enough.”
Seldowitz 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.
On Tuesday afternoon, Gotham announced on Twitter that it had cut ties with Seldowitz.
Fuck…ing…HELL
Often when a headline has only part of a sentence, it was taken out of context so I watched the video.
narrators voice “it was not taken out of context”
I personally have strong dislike of all fundamentalist religious teachings but the things this guy says are despicable. We don’t have to respect someone’s opinion but we have to respect their right to hold it, and saying vile shit like this only furthers divisions.
Honestly the context makes it even worse. It’s not like he was voicing an abhorrent opinion that he just assumed would remain private. He said this while accosting an innocent food cart vendor with Islamaphobic comments and threats.
Yeah, not trying to make excuses for him as he’s probably just a vile POS but this is like mental breakdown territory.
Maybe he personally lost someone close to him on 7th Oct and now he’s taking it out on someone he perceives as ‘Arab’. Even if that was the case though there’s no excuse for this kind of hate speech, go grieve in private or with family / friends.
I hate so much that there are people like him out in the world. Many of us are desperately trying to find ways to come together and they make it so much more difficult.
There’s just so much horrifying stuff about this story. The heinous stuff that he said, the fact that these videos clearly were recorded on different days so he had been at it for a while, or the fact that he was high up in the state department working on US-Israeli and US-Afghanistan policies while having such terrible views.
It’s also weird that he’s trying to insult this poor working man about his religion but not even pronouncing his Arabic evidence properly.
Yeah well when you go crazy in old age you go crazy with what you know. I guess it you are high up in the State Department on the Afghan desk or whatever, berating immigrants might be your brand of crazy. Dude needs a padded room, anyhow, maybe some deprogramming.
Yea everyone is like “we cannot condone his vile actions” bla bla. Well it is a bit too late for that isn’t? Not only did you condone, you clearly fucking rewarded it. It is terrifying to think how many more such men and women are involved in very critical world politics roles.
I am also a bit horrified that Mohammad had sex with 9 y.o. And looks like it is true. I did not know that. Although, she was not his daughter, but his wife whom he married when she was 6!
Regardless, this guy is asshole (not commenting on Mohammad here).
Ok who gave their Grandpa a Lemmy account?
You’re horrified, really? Where I live, you can marry a 12yo with parental consent right now.
This isn’t about a little girl in the fifth century, it’s about Islamophobia today. It’s on the lips of every debate-me-bro that watches clips of Christopher Hitchens to jerk off. It’s the entrance to the reactionary pipeline targeting the skeptic community.
If you haven’t heard this before, that’s good, because it means you haven’t been listening to people like John Haggee or Sam Harris. But if you’re curious just ask yourself what those two characters could possibly have in common.
Where I live, you can marry a 12yo with parental consent right now.
Well, I am horrified by this as well. You do not think this is wrong? And where is it?
It’s not true, it is a very debated claim
What I understood from debates on internet - the debate is only about the girl’s age with numbers given between 6 and 10. In what sense you are saying it is not true?
The range is between 9 and 16
Ok, did not find the argument for 16. However it looks like having such young girls as wives was common at the time, and I do not believe profit ever objected against that. Am I wrong?
Yes it was common at the time and no he did not say anything specifically in support or against the practice at least to my knowledge
It really is full “mask off” for some people because of Israel’s ongoing genocide. I hope this fucker never works again.
It took a while for the world to turn on South Africa, too. Idk if it will happen here but I hope it does soon and the suffering stops.
Boomers are scratching their heads in confusion because younger people are starting to sour on Israel and rightly so. It’s not enough to force a policy change in the US, but give it a few years.
This guy was in the US intelligence service, and he didn’t know that you’re not supposed to fuck with the food cart folks?
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Straight up antisemitism on Lemmy… Love to see it.
Correct me if I’m wrong here, is a moyle not a professional who sucks baby dick.
How is a blunt job description anti semitic?
Ed: I’ll answer my own question…
Under Jewish law, mohalim must draw blood from the circumcision wound. Most mohalim do it by hand with a suction device,[9][10][11][12] but some follow the traditional practice of doing it by mouth. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning in 2012 about the health implications of the latter practice, citing 11 cases of neonatal Herpes simplex virus (HSV) and two recorded fatalities.[13] A 2013 review of cases of neonatal HSV infections in Israel identified ritual circumcision as the source of HSV-1 transmission in 31.8% of the cases.[14]
Because you’re painting an entire religion by the actions of a few extremists. It’s like if I said all Muslims were the same as ISIS.
“that includes” it is understood that it is not the whole, all regions have their branches, what is really relevant is whether it is tolerated by the rest. Speaking of branches of judaism, I wonder if there is one that does not advocate genital mutilation of babies.
The traditional means of drawing blood is sucking a baby dick, is it not.
Hopefully this incident will prompt a broader conversation about the responsibilities of geometry dash world public services and advisory roles in promoting an inclusive and respectful environment.
