No, they chose to follow them out because they were allowed to keep their religion, were guaranteed safety, were paid for their work, were given positions according to their merit.
The alternative was stay under the Christians and convert or be put to death.
What's more, they lived in peace and security among the Arabs of the Middle East and North Africa until Mossad sent agents to frighten them into moving to Israel so they could populate their new colonialist project.
Pogroms have always been a Christian thing and not a Muslim one.
The Zionists won't tell you this because it suits their current agenda but the biggest oppressors and murderers of the Jews has have always been the European Christians and it'll happen again when the fundamentalist Christians of the United States get their ducks in a row. If you study their agenda and prophecies with any objectivity you'll see exactly what they are doing and it'll make your hair stand on end.
The Zionists really haven't done the Jewish people any favours whatsoever.