Fleeing European anti-Semitism only to be oppressed by Jew hating Muslims.
More on how Arabs treated Jews in 19th century Palestine
From Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the Holy Land, Volume 2, by John Lloyd Stephens, 1849:
I cannot leave this place, however, without a word or two more. I had spent a long evening with my Jewish friends. The old rabbi talked to me of their prospects and condition, and told me how he had left his country in Europe many years before, and come with his wife and children to lay their bones in the Holy Land. He was now eighty years old; and for thirty years, he said, he had lived with the sword suspended over his head; had been reviled, buffeted, and spit upon; and, though sometimes enjoying a respite from persecution, he never knew at what moment the bloodhounds might not be let loose upon him……..
