Christopher Jon Bjerknes gave a radio interview where he said that the exlpusion of Jews from Spain and Portugal was something that the Jewish leadership wanted because there was risk of real integration with the Gentile Christians and not just Elite crypto-judaism, its confirmed that Torquemada came from a jewish family, you can read this even on Wikipedia.
Jews fared very well after the expulsion of Iberia, they runned the Atlantic Slave trade and owned slave farms in Brazil and the Caribbean.
Christopher Jon Bjerknes gave a radio interview where he said that the exlpusion of Jews from Spain and Portugal was something that the Jewish leadership wanted because there was risk of real integration with the Gentile Christians and not just Elite crypto-judaism, its confirmed that Torquemada came from a jewish family, you can read this even on Wikipedia.
ReplyDeleteJews fared very well after the expulsion of Iberia, they runned the Atlantic Slave trade and owned slave farms in Brazil and the Caribbean.
And now they all qualify for Spanish citizenship.
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