Former state department official loses job after Islamophobic tirade at New York street vendor

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Halal food worker might soon be able to take action after the attacker's former firm offered free legal representationA New York political lobbying firm has offered to represent a halal street food vendor who was recently subjected to a sustained racist attack by one of its own consultants, a former state department official, in the latest encounter reflecting tension in the city over the Israel-Hamas conflict.
40% : Seldowitz told City & State he was "blindsided" by being fired by the lobbying firm and said he hadn't worked with Gotham "for a very long time".
36% : The Manhattan-based Gotham Government Relations firm said on Tuesday that it would cut all ties with Stuart Seldowitz, who worked in the US Department of State's Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs from 1999 to 2003 and later at the national security council during the Obama administration, after he was filmed harassing an Upper East Side street vendor.

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