"More than 60 years ago, the #French government rented a stately mansion in #Baghdad from a #Jewish #Iraqi family and set up its #embassy there. #France still uses the building as its embassy, but it has not paid rent to the family in decades.
Now, the family is suing France for $22 million, arguing that the country profited from an Iraqi government campaign of #antisemitism. The family says France unilaterally abandoned its contract with it, benefiting from a much cheaper deal offered by the Iraqi government, which #expropriated the house under a law that #dispossessed Jewish owners."
France 🙄
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/world/middleeast/jewish-family-iraq-embassy-.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub