Christopher Columbus, the 15th-century explorer who discovered the Americas, was of Sephardic Jewish descent, Spanish scientists announced Saturday. Employing cutting-edge DNA analysis, researchers have finally put to rest the enigma surrounding the origins of the man who spearheaded Spanish-funded expeditions from 1490 onward, ultimately leading to European exploration of the Americas.
Columbus’ origins have been a subject of debate for centuries. The prevailing view has been that he hailed from Genoa and that his heritage was Italian. However, other theories have been suggested, including that Columbus was Greek, British, or even a Spanish Jew.
The finding that Columbus was Jewish came as a result of a 22-year-long investigation led by forensic expert Miguel Lorente that confirmed another prevailing theory, that Spain’s Seville Cathedral is Columbus’ final resting place.
The findings were announced in a new documentary, “Columbus DNA: The True Origin,” that was aired on Spain’s national broadcaster TVE on Saturday.
Lorente examined microscopic samples from remains interred in Seville Cathedral, long designated as Columbus’s final resting place despite competing claims. These samples were compared to those of known relatives and descendants, with findings unveiled in a documentary aired on Spain’s national channel TVE.
“We have Christopher Columbus’s DNA, albeit fragmentary, but sufficient for our purposes. We also have the DNA of Hernando Colón, his son,” Lorente explained. “Both the Y chromosome (male0 and the mitochondrial DNA (transmitted by the mother) of Hernando exhibit characteristics consistent with Jewish ancestry.”
In 1492, Columbus, attempting to reach India by sailing west over the Atlantic Ocean, led a Spanish expedition that discovered the island of San Salvador Bahamas on October 12 of that year, the first recorded European contact with any landmass in the Western hemisphere. He also made the first contact with the native inhabitants of the Americas, who he called “Indians” due to his misconception that he had arrived in India. He died in 1506 never accepting that he had found a new continent (which in fact was not named after him but after Amerigo Vespussi, who led exploratory voyages to the American coast and claimed that it was actually a separate continent which he named “The New World”)
Ironically, given what has been discovered about Columbus’ Jewish heritage, 1492 was also the year that the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella expelled their country’s Jewish inhabitants who would not convert to Catholicism, ending about fifteen centuries of Jewish life in Spain. Columbus identified as a Christian and wrote of his interest in converting the natives he found during his voyages to Christianity.
Columbus’ expeditions to the Americas would lead to further European expeditions to what became known as the “new world,” including eventual settlement and colonization of North and South America.
5 comments:
So what's new about this? About 75 years ago when I was a little kid in the US we had rhyme:
In fourteen ninety two
Columbus was a Jew
He stepped in gas
And burned his ass
In fourteen ninety two.
The bigger reason for this is to cement the image of Jews as colonialists and murderers. See, even Columbus was a colonizing Jew bent on wiping out indigenous people!
Christopher Columbus was the highest left-democrat ever:
he had no idea where he was
he had no idea where to go
and did all of that with public money.
And he was a Jew identifying as a Christian. Alle maalos.
Woke guys who want "Open Borders" but hate Columbus actually worship Che Guevara as an idol, one of the biggest criminals in history - having himself killed around 20.000 civilians.
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