A Jewish-owned ice cream store that closed after being vandalized with pro-Palestinian graffiti final month lately reopened, the proprietor introduced.
”We’re thrilled to announce that now we have reopened our Mission retailer doorways on Tuesday, November twenty first,” Smitten Ice Cream proprietor Robyn Sue Fisher wrote on her firm’s web site. ”Thanks for standing by us and with us via these difficult instances.”
”We can’t wait to serve up pleasure and like to the group as soon as once more,” the publish continued.
San Francisco Police arrived on the vandalized Smitten Ice Cream storefront within the early morning of Oct. 25. (Rex Salisbury by way of GoFundMe)
The San Francisco-based ice cream parlor quickly closed after it was vandalized on Oct. 25 with ”FREE PALESTIEN [sic]” spray-painted on the storefront, in keeping with Mission Native, a regional outlet.
The officers who responded to the ice cream store’s alarm discovered the shop’s home windows shattered, San Francisco Police Division (SFPD) Officer Gonee Sepulveda instructed Fox Information in an announcement earlier this month.
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”The graffiti means that the store was focused as a result of I’m Jewish, and it’s at present being investigated by authorities as a hate crime,” Fisher wrote on the time.
The investigation stays ongoing, SFPD instructed J., a Northern California Jewish information outlet, on Wednesday.
Fisher and her workers have been ”scared and harm,” by the assault, she mentioned in one other social media publish.
The vandalism occurred lower than three weeks after the Oct. 7 assaults ignited the Israel-Hamas warfare.
There have been over 830 documented antisemitic incidents throughout the U.S. between Oct. 7, 2023, and Nov. 7, 2023, in keeping with a latest Anti-Defamation League survey. That averages to almost 28 antisemitic incidents a day.
Clients line up outdoors Smitten Ice Cream, a California-based ice cream retailer which flash freezes its product utilizing liquid nitrogen, within the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco in 2016. (Smith Assortment/Gado/Getty Photos)
Because the assault, a GoFundMe for Smitten enterprise raised over $100,000, serving to the shop reopen in lower than a month, in keeping with its web site. To commemorate the reopening, Fisher introduced a brand new combined berry ice cream taste known as ”I Select Love.”
The proprietor additionally introduced a brand new artwork venture at Smitten’s San Francisco location known as the ”Pillar of Love,” the place company are inspired to jot down optimistic notes earlier than attaching them to the set up.
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Fisher has bought ice cream in San Francisco for over a decade, in keeping with the store’s web site. She initially started promoting ice cream out of a Radio Flyer wagon she pulled across the metropolis.
The chain has areas in San Francisco, San Jose, California, and Las Vegas.
Fisher, Smitten Ice Cream and the SFPD didn’t return requests for remark.