The Zionist Organization of America filed an amicus brief supporting an Egyptian Jewish family’s lawsuit against Coca-Cola. The Bigio family, which is trying to gain compensation from Coca-Cola for land and factories in Egypt, is appealing a court ruling that the case ought to be decided in an Egyptian court. The family owned factories in Egypt that produced bottle caps, trays and coolers. Their property was confiscated by the Egyptian government in 1962 because they were Jewish, the ZOA said, and Coca-Cola later purchased the factories from Egypt knowing they had belonged to the Bigios. “The hatred of Jews is so embedded in Egyptian society that the Bigios could not realistically be expected to obtain a fair trial in an Egyptian court,” ZOA said in its brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals to the Second Circuit in New York City.
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