Former Obama aide Stuart Seldowitz has reached a sweetheart deal doing “anti-bias” training to get hate crime charges dropped over his vile Islamophobic rants at a Big Apple halal cart vendor.
Seldowitz, 64, will submit to a “26-week Anti-Bias Program through Queens Counseling for Change,” Judge Beverly Tatham ruled Wednesday at the prosecution’s request.
If he completes it and has no new arrests or violations of the victim’s protection order, the hate crime charges against him will be dropped, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office confirmed to The Post.
Seldowitz – who was present but did not speak at Wednesday’s hearing – worked under five presidents and once served as Security Council advisor for Obama. During the early 2000s, he also worked for the State Department’s Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs.
The policy veteran went viral in November when he was filmed shouting at Q Halal Cart vendor Mohamed Hussein.
“Did you rape your daughter like [Prophet] Mohammed did?” Seldowitz taunted the young man.
He also asked if Hussein was a “terrorist.”
“I’ll send your picture to my friends in immigration. The Mukhabarat in Egypt will get your parents. Does your father like his fingernails? He’ll take them out one by one,” Seldowitz spewed.
“If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, it wasn’t enough,” he added, seemingly in reference to Israel’s counteroffensive in the Gaza Strip, which is believed to have killed thousands of civilians.
Hussein, who had worked at the cart on East 83rd Street and Second Avenue for the past year, begged the older man multiple times to leave him alone.
Even weeks after the vitriolic attack, he was still afraid to go to work.
“Mohamed’s a little scared, he’s a little worried — especially after finding out this guy used to work for the government,” Islam Moustafa, the cart’s owner, told The Post in late November.
“How do you ask a little 24-year-old if he ever raped his daughter? He’s an ex-government official, he worked for the Obama administration, he’s not a nobody,” Moustafa lamented.
Seldwitz was initially charged with a hate crime for the incident – though he defense attorney, Scott Bookstein, argued in court that his client was actually a “peace-loving guy.”
“I regret the whole thing happened and I’m sorry,” Seldowitz told City & State ahead of his Thanksgiving Day hearing.
“But you know, in the heat of the moment, I said things that probably I shouldn’t have said.” he shrugged.
In the wake of the hateful rant, Seldowitz was axed from Gotham Government Relations, the lobbying firm where he worked as a consultant.
Seldowitz is now due back in court on April 17, the DA’s office said.
Scott Bookstein did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for a comment Wednesday.