[TheThirdRuffian]

Explains why his logs were in Hebrew and he noted Jewish holidays during the voyage.

[No name given]

In my book, this now means criticism of Christopher Columbus should now be considered anti semitic.

[House Atreides]

Oh, Jeez, this means we have yet another Jewish holiday on our calendars. ;-)

[frank ballenger]

Stan Freberg 1961 comedy album the United States of America, the Early Years had a skit of Columbus and his men negotiating with the “Indians” at the shore.

Columbus: Now that we have discovered this land....
Indian: No, we discovered you. We lived here and saw you guys coming here.
Later....
Columbus: Okay, let’s settle the deal. I’ll go to the bank and have my check certified and give it to you.
Indian: Can’t. Banks closed. Columbus Day.

[Leaning Right]

This just in: Rep. Ilhan Omar declares an intifada against Christopher Columbus and all his descendants.

[one guy in new jersey]

Big Tent.

A.K.A.: The water’s warm—anyone and everyone should jump in while the jumpin’s good.

Convert if necessary, revert if possible, and if it’s the faith of your birth? Stay the course, Ninã, Pinta OR Santa Maria.

[rktman]

Uh, as I recall, all this hate started with the Greeks so....
🤔👍 .

[Regulator]

So he WAS a Converso, as believed for many years.

[alternatives?]

Does it matter?

[Ezekiel]

Thanx for the earlier links. Hadn’t had time to check them out yet, but I popped back in to FR and there’s this.

[Angelino97]

He may have actively hidden his Jewish roots to avoid persecution by the Catholic Spanish monarchs.

Whatever his roots, Columbus was a sincere practicing Catholic.

The Spanish monarchs did not persecute sincere Catholics, regardless of their bloodline. Nor did they persecute Jews. They did prosecute heretics, including Jews and Muslims who whose conversion to Catholicism was insincere.

Tomas Torquemada had Jewish ancestors, yet that did not bar him from becoming Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition.

Saint Teresa of Ávila was another prominent, early 16th century Spanish Catholic with Jewish heritage.

There would have been no reason for Columbus to hide his heritage.

[dfwgator]

Like Juan Epstein, the Puerto Rican Jew.

[Flaming Conservative]

Read about that fact years ago.

[madison10]

I thought that had been determined already. Maybe it was just a suspicion

[Ann Archy]

He was CATHOLIC!

[Eli Kopter]

Always suspected he was Jewish and escaped during the Spanish Inquisition.

[fruser1]

While everyone has heard about the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria, history largely ignored the fourth ship, the Manischewitz, which was laden with Matzoh and Gefilte Fish.

[Varda]

This report gets some simple things wrong. Sephardic Jews were part of the invasion force of Muslims when they conquered the Spanish. They were Middle Eastern in origin not European.
The Spanish Inquisition was the model of legal proceedings for it's time (according to Oxford historians). The Spanish had offered their conquerors an amnesty which required them to convert and swear allegiance to the crown. The Inquisition was tasked with rooting out frauds.
I don't recall anything I've read about Columbus which suggested he was a fraud hiding from the Inquisition.
I'll remain skeptical of this report until the DNA report is published hopefully open access.

[meyer]

Wait a minute - so a religion leaves a DNA footprint?

[nicollo]

There is no doubt that Columbus was born in the Republic of Genoa to Catholic parents, both of whom perhaps had some Jewish ancestry; how much is entirely uncertain — and meaningless as to Columbus’ own identity.

(My DNA, for example, shows largely Scandinavian origins, but my ancestry itself is nearly all English.)

Whatever Columbus’ DNA suggests, real or not, is meaningless as to his Catholic identity, as he was raised in a Catholic family, and he devotedly practiced the faith, especially in terms of his legacy as explorer.

[mdmathis6]

Oh no! Now the anti semite conspiracy nuts are going to go ape over this one. Now one more reason they’ll have for accusing Jews for trying to colonialize the World!