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To: ConservativeMind; Bayard

“And Spain agrees, while you say Spain is wrong to admit such a thing.”

No, Spain doesn’t really agree. See for yourself: https://www.exteriores.gob.es/Consulados/losangeles/es/Comunicacion/Noticias/Documents/BillGrantingSpanishCitizenship%20(2).pdf

The issue was the CROWN forcing Jews out of Spain, not the Spanish Inquisition.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-welcoming-sephardic-jews-spain-rejects-thousands-of-citizenship-requests/

And now the Spanish government is backing out: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/24/world/europe/spain-jews-citizenship-reparations.html

But you would believe the virtue signaling Spanish socialists wouldn’t you?


57 posted on 09/18/2022 5:12:39 PM PDT by vladimir998 ( Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: vladimir998
When the Spanish Inquisition expanded to the New World

https://www.timesofisrael.com/when-the-spanish-inquisition-expanded-to-the-new-world/

Among the exhibition's jewels is one of just two documented Spanish copies of the Alhambra Decree, the 1492 edict signed by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, who ordered the Sephardim to convert or leave within 90 days.

“It's what started the whole movement, the diaspora,” said Josef Diaz, chief curator of the exhibit. “To think you had only three months to convert and change your entire belief system or flee. It's very powerful. It's a scary, powerful document. That's the one that just moves me the most.”

“After the Alhambra Decree is issued, it was illegal to be Jewish anywhere in the Spanish world,” Levine said. “[It was] on pain of death. If you were Jewish, you were quite clandestine anywhere in the Spanish Empire.”

Anyone suspected of practicing Judaism risked the wrath of a new, terrifying organization: the Spanish Inquisition.

Established in Spain in 1478, the Inquisition began active investigations in 1480. The next 40 years would see a wave of persecution of crypto-Jews, or conversos who secretly practiced Judaism, in Spain and to some extent in the Americas, Martinez-Davila said.

74 posted on 09/18/2022 6:08:19 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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