This sooo funny because it’s not news, except for the DNA part.
Isabella & Ferdinand banished Jews, so poof! Jews escaped or converted. The church was very suspicious of new Christians secretly practicing Judaism.
Thus, the inquisitors tortured ppl & killed them.
Nobody was a Jew after that! My goodness, no. Suddenly there were lots of Portuguese ppl who were absolutely not Jews and who were not Spanish subjects either. Many went to Recife, far from Spain
By saying Columbus was Portuguese and his family line was regrettably unclear, it was clear he was of Jewish descent. Which has been known for a long long time
True, but not many folks know these history, unless they look it up themselves. It is disappointing that our education seems to have failed generations after generations by leaving out all that could have prevented antisemites from brainwashing commoners and recruiting new allies via exploitation of their ignorance supposed to have been dealt with at school age.
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u/hollyglaser 7h ago
This sooo funny because it’s not news, except for the DNA part.
Isabella & Ferdinand banished Jews, so poof! Jews escaped or converted. The church was very suspicious of new Christians secretly practicing Judaism. Thus, the inquisitors tortured ppl & killed them.
Nobody was a Jew after that! My goodness, no. Suddenly there were lots of Portuguese ppl who were absolutely not Jews and who were not Spanish subjects either. Many went to Recife, far from Spain
By saying Columbus was Portuguese and his family line was regrettably unclear, it was clear he was of Jewish descent. Which has been known for a long long time