[KC_for_Freedom]

If that's criteria, then Jews discovered America

I heard Columbus was a Jew who was given the ships to sail on his mission in order to avoid the Spanish Inquisition.

[Publius6961]

I heard Columbus was a Jew who was given the ships to sail on his mission in order to avoid the Spanish Inquisition.

I always suspected that he was a black gay handicapped woman with AIDS...

[twigs]

One of the ironies of history is that the Jews were thrown out of Spain when Columbus first sailed for America. I believe the las Jews left the same day CC did. I've read a fair amount about CC being Jewish. I don't buy the arguments, but there are some interesting ones out there. The most convincing one I read is that we actually don't know all that much about CC's background and childhood. And there's more than one family with a Christopher Columbus and other family members with the names of CC's. The other one had a lot of Jewish contacts. I know from my own genealogical studies that one of the most challenging things to do is to make certain that the names and families I find in the records is actually mine. It's sometimes much more difficult than you might imagine. I have not personally looked into the archival evidence about CC and his background, so I have no idea how credible these arguments are.