New post: Christopher Columbus was not Jewish. "If you see people reacting to the news that Columbus was a Jew, please tell them that there is zero actual evidence that Columbus was a Jew." buttondown.com/ModernMediev...

Christopher Columbus was not Jewish

Junk science is also junk history

Luis de Torres is also right there...

I had a really upsetting argument one time with a Jewish friend where I came to my senses in the middle of talking about how there isn’t a “Jewish gene,” and realized we had left the realm of hashing out ideas and were just working each other up here there be dragons

Then we'd have to interact with these ppl. Sigh.

I always thought (assumed?) he was Catholic. 🙈🤣

Silvio Dante (born Shlomo Danilovitch) doesn’t think much of that article 😕

yeah yesterday I was like 'I'm not even convinced they for sure have his body' and I read the article in El Pais (I think that's the one you referred to in this?) and I'm even less convinced that they for sure have his body

According to The History Channel and Netflix he was either a) a space alien or b) from Atlantis.

This is such a muddy conspiracy I can't even see who would benefit from pushing it.

Of course you know already - but it's been a real pain in the ass for universities, especially my own, where we have an Indigenous Studies department.

Thanks! In North America a big thing is to cash in morally (sometimes financially) by claiming Indigenous ancestry. This is another, very hateful dimension of colonialism I'm glad to see stepped on, nipped in the bud.