THE man who went viral for yelling Islamophobic hate speech at a street vendor in New York City has been identified.

Stuart Seldowitz was formerly the director of the National Security Council under President Barack Obama during his White House tenure.

Seldowitz served as a diplomat for the US State Department across five different presidencies.

An interview identified him as the US State Department’s Deputy Director/Senior Political Officer of Israel and Palestinian Affairs from 1999 to 2003.

Gotham Government Relations cut Seldowitz after the video went viral.

The firm released a statement confirming they ended all affiliation with Seldowitz, claiming he had not contributed to any work at the company in recent years.

In a press release last November, he was named as the firm’s foreign relations chair.

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“The video of his actions is vile, racist, and beneath the dignity of the standards we practice at our firm,” the statement read.

In the video that went viral, Seldowitz spews several slurs at the vendor and called him a terrorist.

Seldowitz also made several vile claims about killing children.

He told the vendor, “You support killing little children,” and “If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, you know what? It wasn’t enough.”

Councilmember Julie Menin, who represents the Upper East Side district where the rants took place, said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that she’s contacted the New York City Police Department about the incident.

“This is vile hate speech and harassment and truly abhorrent,” Menin said.

“I have contacted the @NYPD19Pct and they are reviewing these videos. There is no place for hate in our community and city.”

Seldowitz joined the State Department in March of 1982.

“To be honest, most of my family was against my joining the State Department, feeling that it was an elitist institution that would not be welcoming to a Jewish guy from Brooklyn,” he told The Foreign Service Journal in 2010.

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