Ex-Obama aide Stuart Seldowitz was given supervised release Thursday after being arrested and charged with a hate crime against a halal cart vendor in New York City. …

Bookstein argued to Manhattan Criminal Court Judge James Clynes that “ the allegations attributed” to his client “are 100% antithetical to who Stuart Seldowitz is — what his core beliefs are,” according to the NY Post.

[Well, that’s not what the video shows. The DA notes that the victim had done nothing to Seldowitz to prompt the harassment. More broadly, though, isn’t it interesting that the Left wants to lecture us on how Islamophobic their opponents are while a member of the elite Left feels entitled to conduct himself in this manner? Remember this the next time Joe Biden wants to lament all the ‘Islamicphobia’ in the country. — Ed]