Christopher Columbus was secretly Jewish

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DNA tests suggest explorer hid true identity due to rampant anti-Semitism across Europe

There has been speculation about this for a while now. I remember hearing about the possibility that Columbus was a "Marrano Jew" back in the mid-to-late 1990's.

its been long speculated that he was Jewish for some decades. The famous Nazi hunter Simon Wisenthal even wrote a book about it. Maybe this DNA is the smoking gun. Other theories suggest he was an aristocrat from a rival kingdom to Castile on the Iberian peninsula. Aristocrats are usually Gentiles. But both theories agree that there seems to be vanishingly small evidence that he came from Genoa, or anywhere in Italy as we have all been told.

Either Aragon (east coast what is now Spain), or from Portugal (Spain's rival on the west coast of Iberia) are the two main theories.

The Portugese theory strikes me as the most convincing.


https://youtu.be/u0yoVsZfypQ

A new DNA study on the 500-year-old remains of Christopher Columbus has found that the controversial explorer was actually a Sephardic Jew from western Europe.

Spanish researchers announced their findings in a new documentary, titled Columbus DNA: The true origin, which aired on Spain’s national broadcaster TVE. Since 2003, scientists have ​​tested samples of remains buried at Seville Cathedral in Spain, believed to be the final resting place of the 15th-century explorer.

In the documentary, Jose Antonio Lorente, a professor of forensic medicine, who led the research at the University of Granada, said his analysis revealed that Columbus’s DNA was “compatible” with his being of Jewish origin.

An estimated 300,000 Jews were living in Spain before the era of the “Reyes Catolicos”, during which Catholic monarchs King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella ordered Jews and Muslims to convert to Christianity or face exile. The expulsion of Jews from Spain occurred in 1492, the same year that Columbus made his first voyage to the Americas.

Now, researchers believe Columbus either concealed his Jewish identity or converted to Catholicism to escape religious persecution. The term “Sephardic” is derived from Sepharad, a Hebrew word that refers to the Iberian peninsula, which includes modern-day Spain and Portugal.

Source: Christopher Columbus was secretly Jewish, new DNA study reveals

The article that I cited above also goes on to say:

Sponsored by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, Columbus completed four voyages for Spain across the Atlantic Ocean. However, his conquests – and the subsequent genocide and colonisation of Indigenous people in the Americas – have been widely condemned. As a result, many states and cities in the United States have decided to rename Columbus Day, the holiday in honour of the explorer, to recognise the violence committed against Native Americans since Columbus and his crews arrived on shore.

This is probably a travesty of justice. Christopher Columbus was a very remarkable person. The main point that many of these people who which to delete Christopher Columbus form the history books missed is that the entire region at the time was populated by cannibals.

According to Wikipedia: Cannibalism in the Americas has been practiced in many places throughout much of the history of North America and South America. The modern term "cannibal" is derived from the name of the Island Caribs (Kalinago), who were encountered by Christopher Columbus in The Bahamas. Numerous cultures in the Americas were reported by European explorers and colonizers to have engaged in cannibalism.

I remember reading about this many years ago and the number of cannibals that existed in the Americas were in the millions. As I recall, when people started arriving from Europe they brought in many diseases, these diseases were diseases that the native people had not built up immunity to and they resulted in a huge plague that swept across the Americas and the area experienced a mass extinction event.

I remember around 70 years ago, going to class as a Freshman in High School and one of my teachers brought in an object and passed it around in class for everyone to touch and hold. It was a shrunken head.



She was a young teacher and this was her first year. Her father was a diplomat who worked in South America and had brought this home. It was a gift that one of the natives gave to him.

Between 1492 and 1600, 90% of the indigenous populations in the Americas had died. That means about 55 million people perished because of violence and never-before-seen pathogens like smallpox, measles, and influenza.

Prior to Columbus's arrival in the Americas in 1492, the area boasted thriving indigenous populations totaling to more than 60 million people. A little over a century later, that number had dropped close to 6 million.

Source: European colonizers killed so many indigenous Americans

Nearly 20% of the population in Portugal is believed to "be Jewish" according to DNA. Most of them don't know anything about it and don't identify as Jews.

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/discove ... -portugal/

I went to the 8th grade. I know all of that stuff about the prevailing winds.

And you're right that all that bs about how everyone thought the world was flat in his time is just that...BS. The educated elite of that time knew the world was spherical for 2000 years by then. The argument Columbus had with his prospective patrons was not over shape, but over the size of the planet.

Ptolemy actually measured the circumference of the Earth in 300 BC and came within like two percent of the actual figure. But Columbus made the planet about half its actual size and would argue that "Japan must be only 600 miles west of Portugal" (either in honest error or as part of his sales pitch).

But...he was probably the first person in history to get a research grant to test a theory...so he was the forerunner of most scientists today.

I try to stay skeptical any time I see an article saying that a controversial historical figures was actually from some other country or religion than was traditionally thought. Plenty of people want Columbus to be from their nation because they love him, and many more dont want that because they hate him.

Columbus especially is one of the most politicized, controversial figures in history, so I prefer to stick to the most accepted, boring version of events: he was an Italian from Liguria. I find it doubtful that a Jew would accept a mission from Spain (of ALL places) to go overseas to spread Catholicism.

Big irony? If Spain had stayed Muslim, the Jews of Iberia would not have had to either convert or leave when the Catholics were back in charge. Muslim rule in Iberia was a tolerant golden age of for the Jews living there--as much as Zionists forget that and desperately want the rest of us to forget that too.

^ I used to think along those lines too...that it was like all of the "Shakespeare wasnt Shakespeare" theories...that the plays attributed to that low class schmuck who grew up in Stratford-on-Avon were really written by Francis Bacon, or by the Earl of Such and Such, or by one of several others.

But the evidence does seem to show that Columbus was NOT an Italian. And the Portugese contender grew up in a Portugese town of the same name that Columbus gave to one of the first islands he discovered: Cuba (among other evidence). So now I give the Anti Genovese more respect than I do the Anti-Stratfordians.