Haman himself obviously hated them. His wife did too for unclear reasons. I doubt at this point though that Jews had a particular stigma unique to them the way they do today among so many people, stereotyped as bank operators at best and often much worse; I thought that was something that came with the Romans and the revolts against them.
The king’s order, which he had been misled to seal with his signet ring, does seem to include language that basically says that if you help get rid of them, you can take some of their stuff. That alone could be enough reason to just go along with Haman’s idea just like how the proscriptions of Octavian, Antony, and Lepidus let the killers of their victims take a portion of the wealth of those they killed. I also would suspect that would be why they would be willing to just drop the idea if they heard that the king also ordered that the Jews could defend themselves with state assistance (as the king couldn’t undo his own orders) rather than press their attacks out of something closer to outright hatred that we see today. Was there any other notable discrimination against Jews in the Iranian Empire back then in the time of Xerxes or whichever other Shah you think was in charge?
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