Not satisfied with this, he expelled the entire community, perhaps 3,000 people, in 1290, an act so overwhelmingly popular, especially with the Church, that it awarded him a huge tax grant. So it's Edward's England which became the first country to perform a little act of ethnic cleansing on its Jews, the violent uprooting of communities in York, Lincoln and London. It was not plain sailing for the Jews on one deportation boat in the Thames. At Queenborough, the captain encouraged his Jewish passengers to stretch their legs as the ship beached on the receding tide. As it returned, he barred them from getting back aboard, challenging them to call on their god to part the waves as he had with the Red Sea. But there was no miracle this time. They all drowned.


他对此并不满足，在1290年，他将整个犹太族群大约3000人，逐出了国境。此举获得了广泛的支持，特别是教会，奖赏了他丰厚的税务补贴。爱德华统治的英格兰可谓，对犹太人进行种族清洗的始作俑者。在约克郡，林肯郡和伦敦，犹太族群被暴力地连根铲除。犹太人沿着泰晤士河的放逐之旅，并非风平浪静。在昆伯勒，船长诱骗那些犹太乘客，在船因退潮搁浅的时候，下船去活动筋骨。当潮水袭来时，船长却禁止他们上船，并要求他们祈祷，让他们的主劈开波浪，就如传说中劈开红海那般。但是这次神迹没有显灵，他们全部溺水而亡。