Christopher Columbus was Spanish and Jewish, documentary reveals

9 pointsposted 13 hours ago
by ywvcbk
(theguardian.com)

5 Comments

chipdart

7 hours ago

From the article:

> “Unfortunately, from a scientific point of view, we can’t really evaluate what was in the documentary because they offered no data from the analysis whatsoever,” Antonio Alonso, a geneticist and former director of Spain’s National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences told El País.

So, baseless speculation used by the Spanish regime to claim Christopher Columbus as Spanish during the Spanish national day?

The funny part is that none of this matters for things other than nationalist talking points.

profsummergig

9 hours ago

> “The DNA indicates that Christopher Columbus’s origin lay in the western Mediterranean,” said the researcher. “If there weren’t Jews in Genoa in the 15th century, the likelihood that he was from there is minimal. Neither was there a big Jewish presence in the rest of the Italian peninsula, which makes things very tenuous.”

Does anyone else think that this is a poorly argued piece?

Being Jewish, and having some Jewish DNA: are they the same thing? Is it not possible that many many people in Genoa could have had Jewish ancestors? After all, most of Jesus's disciples were Jewish (please correct me if I'm wrong).

dumbo-octopus

8 hours ago

All of Jesus’s original disciples were Jewish.

And you can be certainly be Jewish without having Jewish DNA, but there’s some controversy as to whether the reverse is true.