This is asinine. Unless one is a Nazi, having geneology that may extend back to Jews doesn’t mean you are a Jew. It means you had ancestors who were Jews.
Columbus was a Catholic, not a Jew. He was tight with the Franciscans, left his son at one of the monasteries, and spent a lot of time at those himself.
When they survived their first of three voyages after encountering a terrible storm on the way home that they thought would be the end of them, they ALL (including Columbus) vowed to make a pilgrimage to pay homage to “Our Lady” which is Catholic. They made it to Santa Maria in the Azores, and all of them, dressed in shirts only and nothing else, fulfilled their vow.
On top of that, the Catholic Church (the Franciscans) played a major role in getting Columbus in front of the King and Queen of Spain to pitch his voyage.
I think a lot of posters on this thread have it right. The people behind this are simply trying to muddy the legacy of Columbus, and slander him as a gay, transsexual cross-dresser to boot.
Columbus wasn’t perfect but he was a great man, and it is said there is nobody alive today who could have done what he did with the knowledge he had in 1492.
They said he never swore, and his deepest curse when he was angry at someone was “May God take you.”
Much of what I know about Columbus is from the works of the famous Naval historian, Samuel Eliot Morison, and he knew of what he spoke.
In 1939-1940, he put together the Harvard Columbus Expedition which retraced the voyages of Columbus in sailing ships, barkentine Capitana and ketch Mary Otis. After crossing the Atlantic under sail to Spain and back, and examining all the shores visited by Columbus in the Caribbean, he wrote “Admiral of the Ocean Sea”, an outstanding biography of Columbus, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1943.
Back in the 1930s and early forties he sailed the same waters Columbus did so he could see what Columbus saw, and where he went. He did it on a vessel simlilar in size to the Nina, which if I recall correctly, was his favorite.
Remarkable reading. “Admiral of The Ocean Sea” (Two volumes) and “The Great Explorers: The European Discovery of America”, which I found extraordinarily entertaining and informative.
In “The Great Explorers”, he discusses the discovery and exploration of both North and South America by people like Giovanni da Verrazzano, Magellan, and Sir Francis Drake, just to name a few. Verrazano was butchered and eaten by natives within sight of his men on the ship, likely Caribes, who had enticed him to come ashore alone, which he did. They pounced on him and cut him up into pieces and ate him, and none of his crew could do anything about it as they were too far away. This is also a favorite thing the Left likes to “debunk” because they can’t have the Rousseauean Noble Savages doing such a thing, the white explorers have to be the evil ones. But Morison researched this, delving deep into the original documents still available in various places throughout Europe. I trust him over dipshits who want to change the day to “Indigenous People’s Day”, whatever the hell that signifies.
Some of the best and most memorable reading I have ever done.
The content of Columbus' personal letters and diary entries prove most revealing. One telling difference between Columbus' personal writings and those of his contemporaries was the language it was written in, namely one unrecognizable to most native Spaniards. Linguistics professor Estelle Irizarry, after analyzing the language of hundreds of similar letters concluded that it was written in Castilan Spanish or Ladino, a Jewish version of the Spanish language, analogous to what the Yiddish language is to German.
Another revelation is in the mysterious monogram found on his the letters, written right to left. To quote Semitic linguist Maurice David, who discovered the meaning of the symbols, "On all of these... intimate letters the attentive reader can plainly see at the left top corner a little monogram which is... in fact, nothing more.... than an old Hebrew greeting....frequently used among religious Jews all over the world even to this day". The symbol he was referring to were the Hebrew letters bet and heh, which we know to stand for b'ezrat Hashem, or with God's help. Not surprisingly, Columbus' letter to the King and Queen was the only one of his 13 letters studied that did not contain this symbol.Christopher Columbus, Secret Jew by Bluma Gordon [Aish.com]
I think we’re all kinda jews, aren’t we?
The country now called the Dominican Republic gets its name from the capital city Santo Domingo, founded by Columbus. It was given that name because St. Dominic was his father's patron saint.