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Except they didn't. Christians knew nothing about the evil of jews until the Disputation of Paris, also known as the trial of the Talmud, in 1290, while the Alhambra Decree ('convert or leave' edict) was issued 1492.
Short version: jews were regarded as wandering nomads, and nobody knew anything about their religion because nobody knew the language, and many kings disregarded the complaints of their commoners (e.g. kids going missing, poisoned wells, etc). One jew defected and told all of the Christians what the Talmud really said about them, leading to the king to order an official debate, which led to the king outlawing jewry, and the Church trying to convert them.
It had never been tried before - we know it doesn't work because of history, but they didn't have that.