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Jews "flourished" in the vast and long lived Ottoman Empire, never expelled and rarely disciplined.

That's not really true. The successful Jews were the criminals who could provide alcohol and whores to the Muslim lords. This did not make Jews popular among the Muslim public that was forbidden these things. Most Jews were dhimmis who forced to live in humiliation. In some towns they were not permitted to have a house that looked better than the house owned by the poorest Muslim, in some towns they were not allowed to wear shoes, things like that. The Jewish communities were periodically destroyed by riots whenever the Muslims felt like getting rid of them, and the Muslims would later tell travelers that the missing Jews all converted to Islam voluntarily. Islam never admits to doing anything that people might think is wrong. It's part of the psychology of the religion.