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re: Alhambra Decree & Colon to americas. To COLONize.
(Cristobal Colon)
"There is clear and well-documented evidence that Columbus was protected and assisted by notable Jewish converts from the first moment he arrived in Castile, in late 1484, from Portugal. Thanks to the convert Gabriel Santàngel, 'ration clerk' in the court of Fernando el Catolico, and also to Gabriel Sánchis, treasurer of the Crown of Aragon, who advanced money and made a personal loan to Colón, the first trip was made. And let it be known that it is not true that Queen Elizabeth pawned her jewels, since she already had them in Valencia due to the expenses incurred by the Baza war.
Official history bets on a Catholic Columbus, and Fray Bartolomé de las Casas himself relates that on the third voyage (1498) Columbus gave the name of Trinidad to the large island that closes in the Gulf of Paria in Venezuela, explaining that he was very devout. of the Holy Trinity. However, what Columbus saw when he reached that island was a mountain with three peaks that reminded him of another that has the same name south of Corsica, in the Strait of Bonifacio. It is simply a name transfer.
The great proof that Columbus was a crypto-Jew is that in letters to his son Diego, from 1504 and preserved in the General Archive of the Indies of Seville, in the upper left there is a rubric that are the characters Bet and Hai of the Hebrew alphabet and which are short for Baruch Haschem, (Praise the Lord), written from right to left in the Semitic way. The study of this rubric we owe mainly to Maurice David, Simón Wiesenthal and the Scientific Police of Spain who drew up a report of the letters mentioned that I had requested; and I myself presented to the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts at Givat Ram University in Jerusalem. When showing the letters of Columbus to his son Diego, without a moment's hesitation, the experts said that they were the characters Bet and Hai.
On the other hand, the German philologist Fritz Streicher, a scholar of Columbus's writings, pointed out that the rubric is drawn up by the same hand that he wrote the letters. The conclusion is that Columbus greeted his son I say in Hebrew, which goes to show that he was a crypto-Jew.
Another very important issue is that "the name Colom was not the real name of the great navigator," explained Professor Abraham Haim in a lecture given at the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, in March 2009. So there will be no choice but to follow the clue provided by Antoni Soler i Parellada about the Jewish family Yonah de Mora d'Ebre, Christianized as Colom when he moved to Tarragona (Butlletí del Center d'Estudis Colombins, n. 47, March 2009, p. 5).
In addition, the journalist and writer Pere Bonnín, in his column En Tòfol Colom (Ultima Hora / Mallorca, April 26, 2009, p. 35) wrote that “the Jews used to adopt a biblical name, which they were translating or adapting to the languages of reception, so the biblical Yonah or Jonah means dove and becomes a very widespread Jewish or Judeo-convert surname: Colom in Catalan."
https://www.periodicodeibiza.es/pitiusas/ibiza/2016/09/30/222920/cristobal-colon-judio-converso-criptojudio.html