The family alleges france benefited from iraq's antisemitic laws that dispossessed jewish owners. The lawsuit highlights the plight of iraqi jews forced to flee their homeland. France appropriated the home of a displaced jewish family and has used it as its embassy in iraq for 50 years without paying the family a single euro in rent.

A jewish family’s struggle for justice in the heart of baghdad once stood a stately home owned by a jewish family with deep roots in iraq’s ancient jewish community.