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The article argues that Christopher Columbus was not who history portrays him to be, suggesting he was Jewish and Portuguese rather than Italian from Genoa. The author, Miles Mathis, uses visual analysis of portraits, historical records, and genealogical connections to support his claims.
Early evidence cited includes a portrait by Alejo Fernandez which allegedly reveals a long Jewish nose and hair, contradicting the typical depiction. Mathis asserts that the name was changed from Colon to Columbus, and his birthplace was faked to obscure his origins. He criticizes portraits by Sebastiano del Piombo, calling them propaganda, as they allegedly don’t match contemporary accounts and were attributed to the artist Piombo to lend credibility to faked images. Mathis also questions the physical proportions of a particular portrait, suggesting the head might have been added later. He further points out that the depiction of Columbus as a blue-eyed blond is contrary to common perceptions of people from Genoa, Spain, or Portugal, but suggests Jewish nobles could have intermarried with tall blondes, citing Princess Leonor as an example of this lineage within Spanish royalty.
The text proposes that all navigators were Jewish, part of what is called the Phoenician Navy, which allegedly controlled worldwide shipping for millennia. The author dismisses the notion of Columbus coming from a poor family as a common Jewish lie. A significant clue, according to Mathis, is Columbus’s marriage in 1479 to Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, a Portuguese noblewoman. He challenges the explanation given by Samuel Eliot Morison in Wikipedia, which downplays Filipa’s family’s wealth by stating her mother had “slender means” and was glad to avoid “convent bills.” Mathis claims Filipa owned a “comendary,” meaning she owned feudal lands. He further states that Filipa’s father was also part of the Phoenician Navy, having discovered Porto Santo Island and become its governor. Filipa’s grandfather, Micer Filippo Pallastrelli, is identified as a Lombard knight and nobleman of King John I of Portugal, linking Columbus to Aviz and various European royal lines, including Capetians, Plantagenets, Dunkelds, and Komnenes. Filipa’s grandmother was Caterina Visconti of an Italian noble house. Through her lineage, Columbus’s marriage is presented as being to someone connected to the royal house of Portugal, implying Columbus himself must have been of high nobility.
Mathis argues that the mainstream dismissal of Columbus being Portuguese is due to paid scholars. He highlights that Columbus first reported to the King of Portugal upon returning from his voyage and that he spoke and wrote Hebrew, celebrating Jewish holidays and using the Jewish calendar. MyJewishLearning.com is cited as admitting Columbus’s birth name, Cristobal Colon, was Jewish, and his mother was a Fonterossa, with Jacob and Abraham as ancestors. A quote attributed to Columbus compares himself to David, the king of Jerusalem. Prominent Jewish individuals surrounding Columbus are mentioned, including astronomers/navigators Josef Vicenho and Martin Behaim, Abraham Zacuto of the University of Salamanca, and Luis de Santangel (originally Chinillo), who provided significant funding through his role as controller-general and chancellor of Aragon. Santangel’s heir, Antonio de la Cadena Maluenda, continued Jewish financial dominance in the New World. Other Jewish sponsors include Gabriel Sanchez, treasurer of Aragon, and Don Isaac Abarbanel, treasurer of Portugal. Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici, through his Seville agent Gianotto Berardi, is also named as a funder, with the Medicis and the Papacy allegedly being influenced by Jews at the time.
The departure date of August 2nd is noted as the date of the Jewish Expulsion. Mathis claims many on Columbus’s ships were Jewish, including his bursar and surgeon. He disputes the narrative that the voyage was funded by expelling Jews from Spain, asserting that prominent Spanish figures were Jewish. He questions the purpose of the Inquisition, suggesting it was not primarily aimed at Jews but at Christian heresy, and was run by Dominicans, founded by Dominic de Guzman, whose name Mathis considers Jewish. The Guzman family, supposedly Muslims from Morocco, are presented as Jewish nobles who later ruled Toledo, a Jewish stronghold. The Guzmans are also linked to the Spanish Armada and married into prominent Jewish lines, including Sotomayor, Zuniga, Mendoza, Ponce de Leon, Braganza, and Aragon. Pero Tafur, a de Guzman, is said to have acknowledged their Jewish heritage.
Mathis criticizes Wikipedia’s page on “Origin Theories of Columbus” for being biased towards the Genoese story and lacking substantial evidence. He dismisses a forged note and a note to a bank as weak proof. He also points to Ferdinand’s book about Columbus, noting that Ferdinand was known to be a liar. The absence of extensive documentation for a Genoese aristocrat is highlighted as suspicious. Wikipedia is noted for admitting Columbus used bet-hei letters and an anagram for the Kaddish, and that Simon Wiesenthal and Robert Graves believed him to be Jewish. The fact that Columbus never wrote in Italian but did write in Hebrew and Spanish is emphasized, with Wikipedia admitting that proponents of the Portuguese hypothesis point to court documents stating his nationality was “Portuguese” and that he referred to Portugal as “my homeland.”
The article criticizes the delay and lack of results from a DNA study initiated in 2021, suggesting it is a ruse to obscure the truth. A Forbes article from six and a half years prior is mentioned, which suggested Columbus was Portuguese, possibly Pedro Ataide, to avoid persecution. The author dismisses this as misdirection. The Irish Times’s update on DNA tests taken two decades prior is also noted for its lack of results. Mathis reiterates that the crucial aspect is bloodlines, not geography, and that he has already established Columbus’s royal Jewish lineage. He criticizes Henry Gates’s DNA test on Meryl Streep, suggesting it deliberately obscured her Jewish heritage. The author believes the lies are perpetuated to hide the fact that most famous historical figures were Phoenician.
The text then discusses conversos and New Christians in the New World, stating they were Jews who became Catholic priests and bishops to infiltrate and subvert the Church, and to steal wealth. The author returns to Columbus’s wife Filipa, claiming her mother’s line, Moniz, was also Jewish, citing Ernest Moniz, former US Secretary of Energy, as an example. Antonio Moniz, a Nobel Prize winner who invented the lobotomy, is also linked to Jewish lines through Resende Abreu. Vasco Gil Moniz, a viceroy in Portugal, is presented as Filipa’s grandfather, married to Leonor, daughter of Phoebus of Lusignan, whose family was linked to Phoenician states. This establishes Filipa as being close to the Portuguese throne, implying Columbus was also of royal standing.
The names of Columbus’s ships are claimed to have been changed, with the Santa Maria allegedly being the Gallega, meaning “Galician,” linking it to Galicia in Spain, a region with strong Phoenician history. The cross fleury sails on replica ships are seen as misdirection, representing the Bourbons rather than the correct symbols, possibly the lions of Judah or El. Columbus’s signature is interpreted by Cecil Roth as a cryptic substitute for the Kaddish, a Jewish prayer. Simon Wiesenthal is criticized for presenting Columbus as a ferry of Jews to the New World for safety, when Mathis argues it was for conquest and profit. The expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492 is called a fabrication attached to Columbus’s voyage, with the massacre of 1391 also being faked. The author criticizes Wikipedia’s page on the expulsion, calling it a “disaster” and a “fantasy.” He argues that Queen Isabella, a protector of Jews, could not have ordered their expulsion, suggesting she was herself Phoenician. Portraits of Isabella are analyzed for Jewish features.
The text claims that Tomas de Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor, was Jewish, citing Hernando de Pulgar, the royal historian, who admitted the Torquemadas were Jewish. Mathis dismisses a Wikipedia study claiming no Jewish converts in Juan de Torquemada’s family, stating it doesn’t deny they were already Jewish. He argues the Inquisition and expulsion were fabricated to flip reality and create sympathy for Jews. He also references a Monty Python sketch about the Inquisition, suggesting it was a farce. Torquemada’s genealogy is linked to Tovar and Collazos families, further connecting him to Portuguese nobles and navigators, and ultimately to Jewish lines. The author argues that the number of executions attributed to Torquemada is negligible and that the expulsion narrative was a lie, similar to the false portrayal of Puritans fleeing England.
Finally, the name “Colon” is examined. Mathis notes that Wikipedia lists the name in many languages but not Portuguese, where it would be Cristovao Pomba (“dove”). He suggests the name was actually Christopher Cohon or Chris Cohen, linking him to the Comnene priestly class of the Phoenicians, which would grant him high status and allow him to marry into royalty. This “simple solution” is presented as the key to understanding history, similar to his previous claim that Genghis Khan was George Kohen.