I knew this country was settled by the Jews!

I'm sick and tired of all these fricken WASPs claiming the high ground. I bet Yale was founded by the tribe too! Talk about a false narrative!

Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, study finds

By Steven Janowski, NY Posy

Published Oct. 13, 2024, 10:32 a.m. ET

Christopher Columbus wasn’t Italian or even originally Catholic but instead a Sephardic Jew likely from Spain who hid his heritage to avoid persecution, a new genetic study suggests.

A decades-long investigation into the famous controversial explorer’s background and conducted by Spanish scientists was meant to shed light on the lengthy debate over where the 15th century globetrotter was actually born, according to the BBC.

Traditional theories held that Columbus — who was sailing for Spain when he trekked across the Atlantic in 1492, sparking European interest in the Americas — was born in 1451 in Genoa, an independent republic on Italy’s northwest coast.

But many historians questioned that. And new DNA evidence pulled from some of the bones of Columbus’ corpse in Spain’s Seville Cathedral seems to prove them right.

“We have DNA from Christopher Columbus, very partial but sufficient,” forensic expert and investigation leader Miguel Lorente said in a documentary called “Columbus DNA: The true origin,” which aired in Spain on Saturday.

“We have DNA from Hernando Colón, his son. And both in the Y [male] chromosome and in the mitochondrial DNA [from the mother] of Hernando there are traits compatible with Jewish origin,” Lorente said.

Although researchers weren’t positive where Columbus was actually born, they believe it was likely Western Europe, possibly the Spanish city of Valencia.

They believe that Columbus either concealed his Jewish identity or converted to Catholicism to avoid religious persecution.

The findings are based on nearly 22 years’ worth of research that began in 2003, when Lorente, a professor of forensic medicine at Granada University, and historian Marcial Castro exhumed Columbus’ partial remains from the cathedral.

For centuries, countries had argued over his origin, with dozens of conflicting theories that claimed he was born in Poland, Great Britain, Greece, Portugal, Hungary or even Scandinavia.

But those ideas — including the novel thought of a Viking Columbus — appear to have been incorrect.

The DNA-driven results are “almost absolutely reliable,” Lorente said.

The results are consistent with historical records of the era, too, which showed that about 300,000 Jews lived in Spain before Catholic monarchs Isabella and Ferdinand ordered Jews and Muslims to either convert to Catholicism or leave.

Many left, settling in wide swaths of the world instead of giving up their religion.

The word Sephardic comes from Sefarad, or Spain, in Hebrew.

Columbus’ fame stems from his four expeditions to the Americas, trips were backed by Spanish monarchs looking for a new route to Asia.

But he slammed into the Caribbean islands instead, sparking a new era of exploration that led to the settlement and conquest of the New World — as well as the deaths of millions of native peoples who perished because of European diseases and wars with European invaders.

Columbus died in Valladolid, Spain, in 1506 but wished to be buried on the island of Hispaniola, which is shared today the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

His remains were taken there in 1542, then at least some of them moved to Cuba in 1795 and then to Seville in 1898.

Aside from questions about his origin, Columbus’ legacy has been swamped with controversy — mostly stemming from his barbaric treatment of the indigenous people who lived in the Americas before he arrived.

His men cut the hands off natives in Haiti and the Dominican Republic if they failed to provide gold every three months, the Washington Post has said.

His crews also chopped off the legs of native kids who tried to run away and aided in the sex -trafficking 9- and 10-year-old girls.

These new perspectives have changed the way people view the explorer and left many calling for his holiday — celebrated on the second Monday of October — to instead be renamed “Indigenous People’s Day.”