Austin, Texas – A kosher-style food truck that introduced residents of Austin, Texas, to the delights of pastrami sandwiches, potato latkes and matzo ball soup has been badly vandalized, in what its Jewish owner adamantly insisted was an antisemitic hate crime.
“It was ransacked, glass everywhere,” owner Scotty Grossbard said on Monday, recalling the discovery late last week of his smashed-up food truck, “Jew Hungry?” The truck began serving its New York deli-influenced menu just eight months ago.
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“I got upset,” Grossbard told local media outlets. “I started crying. I cried most of the day yesterday.”
Grossbard concluded that the attack was motivated by antisemitism after he discovered anti-Jewish symbols left on the drivers’ seat as an apparent warning. An Iron Cross medal, a German army honor that was eagerly adopted by the Nazis and then abandoned after World War II, had been placed on the seat, alongside a handful of 25-cent coins, invoking the ugly caricature of Jews as congenitally tight-fisted with their money.
“For them to leave that, to me it’s just saying that Jewish people are all about money and that’s all we think about,” Grossbard said.
