Persecution is a strong word. Of course it is horrible when that kind of hostility is shown towards Muslims, or against anybody. but to call it systematic persecution comparable to what happens to some religious minorities in some places and at some times is to distort the situation.

Persecution isn't the only way in which people are treated terribly. The Palestinians driven from their homes in 1948 were persecuted in order to make them flee. Palestinians in exile have suffered from the consequences of that persecution. Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza suffer from oppression, both from Israel and in some cases from fellow Palestinians reacting to that oppression. But that surely is another thread.

People with disabilities are often shamefully treated, neglected and harassed, sometimes to the degree of death. But it would be wrong to use the term persecution in a group sense.

It might indeed be appropriate to use the word persecuted of an individual, just as it can be, for example when talking of an individual bullied at work, but that is a different use of the word from when we are talking about pogroms.