Yes, of course. They'd borrowed enormous sums of money and didn't want to pay it back, so the Jews were deported. An anti Semite may ask, why were the Jews in a position to advance huge sums in the first place? The answer is that they were placed in that position to begin with, with a desired outcome in mind - use their pre existing cross border familial relationships to access (and move into preferred jurisdictions) a greater pool of resources, rinse them, scapegoat them, turf them out. Canon law banned Christians from moneylending.
When you go to Arab cities with large historical Jewish populations, the Jewish quarter is almost always right up against the royal or viziers palace. That's not an accident. That's where those quarters were built so that in the event of civil unrest, the crowd would first have to go through the Jewish quarter - those apparently privileged people living alongside the royals. The idea was that the energy of a hostile crowd would generally burn itself out with the fun of slaughtering and looting the local Jews, leaving the palace untouched. They were effectively used as a human moat within the context of urban design.
That's repeated all over the region, and beyond. Elements of it were replicated in Europe too. It worked.
It's very upsetting to see that the British government in 2022 is prepared to scapegoat particular groups of people to divert from its own failures. This is not new, or 'unprecedented'.
