European surnames were forced upon Jews in the 1800s. They didn't have them beforehand. My surname means "non-Christian" which is a way for my family to raise a middle finger on those who forced such names on us.

Please don't try and lecture Jews on how they were treated historically in Arab lands. My family fled a pogrom in Hebron to move first to Beirut then finally Europe, 500 years ago. Believe me when I say us Jews have records of every pogrom and massacre against us by Arabs. Now it IS true that some rulers tolerated us better than others and there were periods of calm and it is also true that it was better as second class citizens in Arab lands with the pogroms, compared to the greater amount of pogroms in Europe plus the Holocaust. But that is only saying how bad it was in Europe, not that Arabs don't have blood on their hands too.

There are places with Muslim majorities like Azerbaijan that had zero antisemitism recorded. Central Asia it also wasn't so bad for Jews. But do not try and whitewash the horrid history of Jews under Arab rule that predates Zionism and Israel.