Posted on 04/02/2015 4:58:11 AM PDT by SJackson
Communities in New Mexico and southern Colorado have found irrefutable evidence to say they are descended from Jews. What next?
The crypto-Jews of Spain have fascinated Jews for decades. But it was not always fascination – it was once more about the frustration, even resignation, that hundreds of thousands of Jews had been stolen in martyrdom or in forced conversions to Catholicism. In 1492, consolidating their gains following the conquest of Granada, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella enforced the Spanish Inquisition to offer Jews under their rule three infamous options: leave, convert or die. For those who converted, it was a shallow change of religion.
Jews passing themselves off as converts – conversos in Spanish – took advantage of Spain’s expansion into the Americas to escape, not expecting the Spanish Inquisition to follow. Within a generation the Inquisition had set up shop throughout what would become Latin America, forcing devout Jews to go even further out. After the Inquisition consolidated itself in Mexico, some Jews headed toward South America while others went north into what would become New Mexico.
“Years ago, my brother and my aunt were doing our family’s genealogy,” says Bernadette Martinez, a real-estate developer in New Mexico who claims descent from New Mexican conversos and has been involved in the redeveloping community for years.
“We had heard rumors of descendants of conversos in New Mexico. I didn’t think we were part of that because didn’t seem to me we had any practices that were strange or been from a Jewish background. I didn’t think much about it until I saw a segment on TV with Dr. Dell Sanchez.”
Dr. Sanchez has been active in the cause of New Mexican conversos for years.
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They are either Jews or they are not. If they have family traditions and CONVERT, great, they can go to Israel if Israel takes them. But Jewish descent means nothing. Pashtuns (you know Mullah Omar’s people) are descended from Israelites.
Travis, I drove through Mountainair, NM once while camping. It was beautiful.
You referenced the area in your above novel, wherein radical racial Marxists were throwing the white people out of their homes in favor of Mexicans.
It drove home the idea that idyllic and peaceful places can quickly become unsafe. I used it as a lesson plan for my wife.
Yep, very quickly.
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