Jewish-owned Ice cream store reopens after pro-Palestinian assault

A Jewish-owned ice cream store that closed after being vandalized with pro-Palestinian graffiti remaining month just lately reopened, the landlord introduced. 

“We’re extremely joyful to announce that we have got reopened our Venture retailer doorways on Tuesday, November twenty first,” Smitten Ice Cream proprietor Robyn Sue Fisher wrote on her corporate’s web site. “Thanks for status by way of us and with us thru those difficult occasions.”

“We can not wait to serve up pleasure and like to the group as soon as once more,” the put up persisted. 

SAN FRANCISCO POLICE INVESTIGATING SHOP VANDALIZED WITH PRO-PALESTINIAN GRAFFITI AS HATE CRIME: JEWISH OWNER

The San Francisco-based ice cream parlor briefly closed after it used to be vandalized on Oct. 25 with “FREE PALESTIEN [sic]” spray-painted at the storefront, in step with Venture Native, a regional outlet.

The officials who answered to the ice cream store’s alarm discovered the shop’s home windows shattered, San Francisco Police Division (SFPD) Officer Gonee Sepulveda advised Fox Information in a remark previous this month.

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“The graffiti means that the store used to be focused as a result of I’m Jewish, and it’s these days being investigated by way of government as a hate crime,” Fisher wrote on the time. 

The investigation stays ongoing, SFPD advised J., a Northern California Jewish information outlet, on Wednesday. 

Fisher and her workers have been “scared and harm,” by way of the assault, she mentioned in any other social media put up. 

The vandalism passed off not up to 3 weeks after the Oct. 7 assaults ignited the Israel-Hamas warfare. 

ANTISEMITISM EXPOSED

There have been over 830 documented antisemitic incidents around the U.S. between Oct. 7, 2023, and Nov. 7, 2023, in step with a fresh Anti-Defamation League survey. That averages to almost 28 antisemitic incidents an afternoon.

Shoppers line up outdoor Smitten Ice Cream, a California-based ice cream retailer which flash freezes its product the usage of liquid nitrogen, within the Pacific Heights group of San Francisco in 2016. (Smith Assortment/Gado/Getty Photographs)

For the reason that assault, a GoFundMe for Smitten industry raised over $100,000, serving to the shop reopen in not up to a month, in step with its web site. To commemorate the reopening, Fisher introduced a brand new combined berry ice cream taste referred to as “I Make a choice Love.” 

The landlord additionally introduced a brand new artwork undertaking at Smitten’s San Francisco location referred to as the “Pillar of Love,” the place visitors are inspired to jot down sure notes sooner than attaching them to the set up.

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Fisher has offered ice cream in San Francisco for over a decade, in step with the store’s web page. She at the start started promoting ice cream out of a Radio Flyer wagon she pulled across the town. 

The chain has places in San Francisco, San Jose, California, and Las Vegas. 

Fisher, Smitten Ice Cream and the SFPD didn’t go back requests for remark.