Destruction inside Jewish food truck was hate crime, owner says
By Brandon Mulder
Posted Nov 4, 2018 at 7:38 PM
Updated at 10:59 AM
Scotty Grossbard was returning to Austin last week from his first vacation since opening his food truck Jew Hungry? in the spring when he got a phone call no food truck owner ever wants.
His truck, which serves old family Jewish delicacies from outside the South Congress Avenue bar 04 Lounge, had been broken into — windows broken, appliances destroyed and kosher ingredients stolen.
The incident happened overnight Wednesday, and when he went to review the ruins, he saw something the vandals left that made him cry: an iron cross strewn in the driver’s seat with coins, something he recognized as anti-Semitic hate symbols.
“It was ransacked, glass everywhere. And that’s when I saw the cross and the change on my driver seat,” he said. “I got upset. I started crying. I cried most of the day yesterday.”
The iron cross was a German military medal adopted by the Nazi regime in the 1930s. The medal was discontinued after World War II, but is commonly used by white supremacists as a hate symbol today, according to the International Center for Countering Antisemitism. The coins echo the stereotype of Jewish people as being miserly.
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