JERUSALEM (VINnews) — 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.
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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.
In modern times, Columbus’ life and discoveries have come under greater scrutiny given the atrocities committed against Native American populations by European settlers and their descendants. Columbus himself enslaved thousands of native people, many of whom were sent back to Spain.
Here is my entire post.
Columbus was the first democrat.
He did not know where he was going.
He did not know where he was when he arrived.
When he got back, he did not know where he had been.
And, he did it all with someone else’s money!
Wait till all the wokeys find out they’ve been cancelling a Jew, they’ll be so excited.
Nice propaganda for the woke bit in the last paragraph.
Jews always said he was. All the financial backing, merchants, cartographers, officers were Jews.
They were searching for a safe place to flee to. A lot of documentation too makes it clear that he was. But the Church wanted to claim him.
Most of the family joined him in the Azorres & never returned
Sad episode
Historically it was taught that much of his writings and notes were in Hebrew as well as that of his mates. The day of his departure was tish abov. Fsrther the name Columbus as we call it was a Spanish Jewish surname. But now the argument is over
Native Americans enslaved and tortured each other as well. This is actually pretty much the history of the entire world.
There is a myth that Columbus not only thought he was in India and named the native peoples Indians, but also that he died impoverished, not knowing that he discovered a new world. This myth is like the “George Washington cut down the cherry tree” myth which was taught to generations of elementary school students and many generations continued to believe it was true.
When Columbus landed on the island of what is now known as El Salvador in the Bahamas, there was no country known as India. It was called Hindustan, and before that, Bharat. The word for the native peoples is believed to have been given by a Spanish priest traveling on the voyage and is derived from the Spanish, Los ninos en(in) dios.They appeared to be innocent and the Spanish translates to “The children of God”.
Although in the beginning, Columbus thought he had reached islands off of Asia, on his third voyage, he saw the Orinoco River and concluded he was on an unknown continent. This was reflected in his later writings.
As to the myth that Columbus died poor, this came from the biography written by his second son, who hinted this in a bid for sympathy during a long, drawn-out lawsuit against the crown reguarding titles and privileges of Clolumbus’ heirs. Later, Chronicler Bartolomé de las Casas, enlarged this into “passed away in a state of much distress, sadness and poverty” in his much cited History of the Indies. At the time of his death, Columbus’ income was 4 million maravedis a year. The richest man in Spain at the time made 20 million maravedis a year, but 4 million was pretty high up there.
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Every contemporary account of Columbus refers to him as Genoan. There is simply a huge amount of documentation of his connection to Genoa. He did write in Spanish but the Ligurian language of the Genoa region is closely related and it would have been very easy for Columbus to pick up Spanish. He was Catholic, worked for the Catholic rashaim who expelled us from Spain, and approved of their anti-Semitic acts. Why would we want to claim him?