The real reasons for them being kicked out varied a bit between kingdoms, I’m no expert, but jews were very often labeled as a scapegoat for differeny problems, as they often has been, also recently as in ww2 or even more recent. But there are people who can give more in depth answers! :)
They are staying in their communities, ale closed to outsiders and help each other.
Because of that they can get better education and take better jobs, so usually they had more money.
Also their religion didn't ban them from giving loans with interest.
So people just hated people who did not integrate into their community, was hoarding money and had a lot of people own money to them.
The reason they gave was because if Catholics hung out with Jews some of them might be influenced to convert to Judaism.
That was the why. They decided that Catholics can’t be trusted with seeing another religion and be reasonably expected to remain catholic. It’s literally all over the expulsion decree.
But hey it’s much more fun to “just ask questions” than to talk about how it’s because they thought Catholicism was so not compelling that if people saw an alternative they’d peace out (at great risk to themselves)
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u/E_Fox_Kelly 6d ago
Spain low on the list because they kicked them all out 500 years ago