Its true they were treated better in Arab states then they were in Christian states. However, life was not how a red neck like you makes it out to be:
(1) Medina: Used to be a Jewish city. Mohammad and his cult followers slaughtered, expelled or forced to convert all the Jewish inhabitants
(2) Dhimmi: Jews were given 2nd class status. This prohibited Jews to undertake certain professions, from baring arms, sometimes wearing a yellow badge and to a special tax reserved for non-Muslims. They also count bring a Muslim to court.
(3) Instances of slaughter: For example
Moorish Spain:
1066 Granada massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and Fez in 1276 and 1465
Jews in Arab lands occurred in Morocco in the 8th century, where whole communities were wiped out by Muslim ruler Idris I; North Africa in the 12th century, where the Almohads either forcibly converted or decimated several communities; Libya in 1785, where Ali Burzi Pasha murdered hundreds of Jews; Algiers, where Jews were massacred in 1805, 1815 and 1830 and Marrakesh, Morocco, where more than 300,000 Jews were murdered between 1864 and 1880.
(4) Damascus Affair in 1840:
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(5) Following the Damascus affair, Pogroms spread through the Middle East and North Africa. Pogroms occurred 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).
Yossef Bodansky. "Islamic Anti-Semitism as a Political Instrument" Co-Produced by The Ariel Center for Policy Research and The Freeman Center for Strategic Studies, 1999. ISBN 0967139104, ISBN 978-0967139104
(6) In Persia/Iran:
1839, in the eastern Persian city of Meshed, a mob burst into the Jewish Quarter, burned the synagogue, and destroyed the Torah scrolls. Known as the Allahdad incident. It was only by forcible conversion that a massacre was averted.
(7) Iraq (still predates Israel's rebirth) In 1941, following Rashid Ali's pro-Axis coup, riots known as the Farhud broke out in Baghdad in which approximately 180 Jews were killed and about 240 were wounded, 586 Jewish-owned businesses were looted and 99 Jewish houses were destroyed.