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Each and every time, some preacher invoked/invokes the Banu Qurayza, Khybar earlier massacre of Jews in Madina.

After making a “peace” agreement with the Jews, attacking them as they disarmed themselves.
A tribe of some 700 were decapited after given the choice if to convert which the holy Jews refused.

(See also:
Chaim Schloss, “2000 Years of Jewish History: From the Destruction of the Second Bais Hamikdash Until the Twentieth Century,” Feldheim Publishers, 2002, chapter 6.)

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Here are some events prior to the excuse of “zionism.”

* 1066: execution of Rab Shmuel haNagid and ‘Garanda Massacre’ – 4-5,000 Jews died. The razing of the entire Jewish quarter in the Andalucian city of Granada.

* 1013: Under Umayyad rule,
The inhabitants of Cordoba including Jews were massacred and looted. It is said that 2000 of them were murdered.

* 1033: Fez, Morocco, pogrom, Muslims massacres more than 6000 Jews and took away their women and robbed their belongings.

* 1172+: The Almohads, who had taken control of much of Islamic Iberia by 1172, were far more extremists than the Almoravides, and they treated the dhimmis harshly. Jews and chr. were expelled from Morocco and Islamic Spain.

* Maimonides (Epistle to the Yemenites), consoling the Jews of Yemen for the tortures they suffered and exhorting them to remain true to their faith , no matter what the cost. Despite the remoteness of their abode , the Yemenite Jews never lost contact with the spiritual movements in world Jewry. Their religious life was based entirely upon the Talmud.

* 1465: Fez, Morocco, Muslim subjects overthrew the last Marinid ruler who had appointed many Jews to high positions. Grudges leading to massacre the entire Jewish community of the city. The community was temporarily converted but soon reverted to Judaism.

* 1517: Safed [Tzfat] Israel, Jews were evicted from their homes, robbed and plundered, and they fled naked to the villages.

* 1679–1680: Imam of Yemen (Rassid dynasty) – Jews of nearly all cities and towns in Yemen exiled to a remote desert and left to die.

* 1840-1908: after the Damascus affair – blood libel, riots and massacres of Jews were carried out in Aleppo (1850, 1875), Damascus (1840, 1848, 1890), Beirut (1862, 1874), Dayr al-Qamar (1847), Jerusalem (1847), Cairo (1844, 1890, 1901–02), Mansura (1877), Alexandria (1870, 1882, 1901–07), Port Said (1903, 1908), Damanhur (1871, 1873, 1877, 1891), Istanbul (1870, 1874), Buyukdere (1864), Kuzguncuk (1866), Eyub (1868), Edirne (1872), Izmir (1872, 1874).

* 1864: Solica (Sulaika) Hachuel – The Moroccan Teenager Who Died for Her Jewish Faith.

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Note: While, overall, in Chr. Countries it was far worse. Facts should not be altered, nevertheless. Truth to be told, there were some prolonged good times in Europe, but the European historic bloodshed and persecution is incomparable, of course.