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A rare comeuppance! 👏

New Yorker who made
Islamophobic comments to street vendor arrested for hate crime
Food cart worker saw an outpouring of support from customers after news of the verbal attacks went public
Edward Helmore in New York City
10:16 Thursday, 23 November 2023
The street vendor in Manhattan who was racially harangued about the Gaza conflict woke to huge lines of well-wishing customers on Wednesday as the the former state department official who was filmed berating him was arrested and charged with racial harassment and stalking as a hate crime.

Mohammed Hussein, 24, was back to work at the O Halal Cart grill on Wednesday on the corner of Second Avenue and East 83rd Street, with lines of customers
queuing for food in a sign of support.
Hussein has said he is
still shaken by the encounters with Stuart Seldowitz, 64, who repeatedly harassed him with Islamophobic invective. Seldowitz called Hussein a "terrorist", said 4,000 dead Palestinian children in Gaza "wasn't enough" called the Prophet Muhammad a "rapist" and told the vendor he'd be tortured "when they deport you back to Egypt".
Seldowitz was arrested and charged at the 19th precinct on the Upper East Side on Wednesday with one count of aggravated harassment of race or religion and four counts of stalking as a hate crime.
Islam Moustafa, the cart's co-owner, told ABC News: "I don't sleep well hearing those kinds of harsh comments regarding the Prophet Mohammed and asking the young kid if he raped his daughter and all that?
Construction manager Zak Ettamymy told
ABC he'd witnessed a confrontation he described as "harassment". Seldowitz, he said, "had a lot of hatred. He was saying a lot of mean things and I said, Listen, this is not a place or time for this. You probably need to walk away from this gentleman and let him work?"
After the videos were shared online and Seldowitz was publicly identified, the political lobbying firm he had consulted with said it had cut ties with him, and offered to represent Hussein. "I'll represent the food vendor pro bono if he wants to bring a lawsuit,» Gotham Government Relat…
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Activist and lawyer Ady Barkan has died from complications of ALS at age 39, according to his wife, Rachael.

Photo of Ady Barkan and his wife and two children posted by his wife on Twitter
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Deeply afraid of what will happen to the people of Gaza when hundreds of thousands of IDF troops enter.

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Riverboatjack
@riverboatjack.bsky.social
streamer and political organizer socialist transgender she/her
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