Posted on 10/14/2024 9:34:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The woke are going to like this one because they detest both Zionism as a “settler colonial” crime and the European colonization of North America, which they believe was theft from the indigenous natives. Columbus’s goal and the striving for Zion/Jerusalem come together in this true slice of history.
Christopher Columbus was no Jew, though some want to believe that. In 1892, the Spanish government promoted this fiction because, as America celebrated the quadra-centennial year of his historic voyage, Spain thought it might experience a tourist boom if it identified him as a Spaniard (even a Jewish one) rather than an Italian.
And indeed, there is circumstantial evidence to suggest his maternal grandparents were Spanish Jews who fled to Italy following the tsunami of monstrous massacres of Jews in 1391 when pogroms ignited all over Spain. Perhaps half of the Spanish Jewish population over the next decade converted to Catholicism because of these horrors. Others fled the country, and evidence suggests Columbus’s forebears were among those who settled in Italy. Historians have also claimed his Spanish was better than his Italian.
However, there is no evidence that he was anything but a Catholic and a spiritual, religious man. He used this religious side to appeal to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to fund his belief that a voyage westward from Spain would eventually reach the Far East.
Schoolchildren in the 20th century were taught that Columbus wanted to find a new route to the Far East for the spices, although no one explained why the old route—whatever that was—was now no good. The answer only surfaced decades later when I was doing some historical research after being asked to teach a class in American Jewish history to Jewish refugees from Russia.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
In 1453, when Columbus was two years old, the Ottomans conquered Constantinople and, over the coming decades, expanded southward into the Land of Israel, then into Egypt, and westward across North Africa. For Spanish Christians trying to reach the Holy Land, the voyage was now a potentially life-threatening enterprise.
The Crusades may have petered out at the end of the 13th century, but the hostility between Muslims and Christians continued in lower-level clashes. For example, for a thousand years, the coast of North Africa was “home” to thousands of Christian slaves kidnapped at sea by the so-called Barbary Pirates, who were not pirates at all; that was a colloquial nickname. In their own eyes, they were jihadis. The Jihad is eternal, and they believed they had the right and even duty to hijack Christian commercial shipping in the Mediterranean, keep the ships and cargos, of course, and to enslave the passengers and crews until ransomed.
It was the Jihad that catalyzed the need for finding a new route to the Far East, though historians with an economic bent teach that it was for the spices that the Muslims now made impossible to reach.
I heard he was focused on the Queen.
He was Vulcan.....................
Shai Ben-Tekoa has a weekly podcast, Phantom Nation, on Israel News Talk Radio, and several times a week on his own. He also has written several enlightening books. He has been at it a very long time.
The Italians have claimed him as one of theirs. I doubt if they would agree to give him up so easily. Sometimes, myth, folklore and ethnic pride work to cancel out any contrary data. science based or not.
That would be something like if the late Nelson Mandala was discovered to have actually been a dark skinned Pakistani, and not of African heritage at all. Those misguided Black Americans who claim to worship Mandela would be in a quandary.
That’s an excellent and thought-provoking essay. Thanks for posting.
Well this article from the NYPost came out today claiming his DNA shows he was a Sephardic Jew (from Spain).
The wars between Christian Europe and the Ottomans continued!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lepanto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna
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he cites circumstantial evidence
then contradicts himself saying no evidence
if his grandmother was jewish
so was columbus
this hack urinalist fron obamas fiefdom in chitgargo neglects to mention the 1492 expulsion of jews edict by the king of spain.
Columbus was relying on Persian geographer Alfraganus for the circumference of the globe, which created two problems for him. First, the figure Alfraganus calculated for one degree of latitude at the equator was too small by about 5%. And Columbus Ass-U-Me-d that the published figure for Alfraganus’ estimate of the circumference at the equator was given in Roman miles when it actually was in Arabic miles, which are more than 30% longer than Roman miles.
Based on these figures he calculated he’d find the Japans at 85° west longitude when its actual position is 140° east longitude. 85° west is about where Panama City Beach is.
His last landfall before sailing into the great unknown was the Canary Islands. Since the range of a sailing vessel is primarily limited by how much rations it can carry for the crew, and they would have provisioned before leaving Tenerife, so the critical distance was from there.
Columbus figured to make the Indies in about 3100 (modern nautical) miles from Tenerife. The distance he sailed before reaching San Salvador was so near that that it only served to increase his conviction that he had found the Indies.
By all rights, Columbus and his crew should have died from thirst in the middle of a vast ocean with no land in sight, but fortune placed and unknown continent in his path that saved his life and made him a legend.
As Lefty Gomez said, “I’d rather be lucky than good.”
You must not have read the article because it is mentioned.
That is what I was taught that all the spice routes were cut off by the Muslim conquests so he was hired to find a route going the opposite way.
i only read the excerpt
still think the guy is a whack job commie who is voting dem his whole miserable life.
ymmv
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