This statement is not true for the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans actively sought Jews and encouraged them to immigrate to the Ottoman lands while they were prosecuted in Europe.

Quoting from Halil İnalcık, the greatest Ottoman Historian alive:

The records of the Ottoman archives clearly indicate that in public life Jews performed important functions as advisors to the government, tax fanners, financial agents, and scribes. In economic life, in international and interregional trade, as well as in urban trades and industries, Jews also played a role of importance far beyond the size of their community. One can see the Jewish presence in all kinds of Ottoman archival documentation: in the Mühimme, or proceedings of the imperial council, in the registers and papers of the finance department, and in the court records of the kadi, or judge, which deal with legal and commercial transactions and administrative matters. On the activities of Jews only a fraction of these vast collections has so far been the subject of investigation. The question before the historian is to explain why at a particular period of time the Ottomans demonstrated an exceptional interest in European Jewry, an interest that was indeed without precedent or equal in Islamic history.

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By 1492 the patterns of Jewish immigration to Ottoman lands had been established for more than a century. Ever since the year 1360, when King Louis the Great of Hungary issued a decree expelling the Jews from his dominions, European Jewry had begun to look to the Ottoman territories as a sanctuary. The Jews of Central Europe may have become aware at that time of the favorable conditions that existed for Jews in the Ottoman Balkans before 1453. Although this awareness did not result at the time in a mass Jewish immigration to the Ottoman dominions, the Ottoman sources testify that there were prosperous, and growing, Jewish communities in Ottoman Balkan cities such as Edirne and Salonica in the period prior to 1453. It was, however, after the conquest of Constantinople that the Ottomans demonstrated their particular interest in the Jews by encouraging their immigration. This was the outcome of a rational and deliberate policy on the part of the Ottomans in response to a crusading Europe, where religious intolerance and persecution of Jews were on the rise. Mehmed the Conqueror must have been aware of the plight of the Jews in Europe when he encouraged them to take sanctuary in his territories. This attitude corresponded to the general policies of Mehmed II, who was then deeply preoccupied with the resettlement of his depopulated and ruined new capital, Istanbul, with a population possessing skills and financial resources. The well-known circular letter of Isaac Sarfati (Yitzhak Tzarfari) gains credit when placed in this context. Incidentally, this letter belongs, I believe, to Mehmed II's reign (1451-81), although Salo Baron is inclined to trace it back to the reign of Murad II (142I-51). Himself a refugee from Germany, Sarfati, in his letter, vigorously encouraged the Jews of Europe to immigrate to the Ottoman Empire, where "every man may dwell at peace under his own vine and fig tree." In view of the circumstances following the conquest of Constantinople, it is quite plausible that the sultan himself had Sarfati send out this circular to European Jewry.

Source: Foundations of Ottoman-Jewish Cooperation, Halil İnalcık.

The article can be dowloaded for free here.

Halil İnalcık made a lot of his papers available for free here.

Do you mean religious or ethnic Jews? Benjamin Disraeli became Prime Minister of Britain in the late 19th century. He supported (an early form of) zionism, and was proud of his Jewish heritage. Although he was often criticised by anti-Semites, in Britain, there was no following terrible period of Jewish persecution (in Britain, obviously there was in Germany), but instead a growth in support for Zionism.