And Why Spain Expelled Jews in the First Place | Unpacked

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How can a government apologize for an atrocity?
In 2015, the Spanish and Portuguese governments began accepting applications from the descendants of the Jews once forcibly converted, massacred, and expelled from the Iberian Peninsula.
But why offer citizenship? Why not leave the past in the past?
Because Sephardic Jews still carry the memory and the legacy of the centuries of vibrant Jewish life in Spain. This video honors the astonishing resilience of a community that refused to be destroyed.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:39 Sephardic Jewry and Spanish identity
01:45 Jewish martyrdom
03:39 Christian coercion to convert
04:29 Conversos and Crypto-Jews
07:30 The Inquisition of Crypto-Jews
09:05 Jewish expulsion from Spain and Portugal
09:48 Spain and Portugal offer citizenship to Sephardic Jews
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Introduction
01:46 - Jewish martyrdom
03:41 - Forced conversions
07:31 - The Spanish Inquisition
09:06 - Expulsion of Spanish Jewry
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[@UNPACKED]

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[@abdulazizyalahow]

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[@abdulazizyalahow]

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[@BE-bk1tb]

Now we need part 2, showing us the Sephardic Jews who went to the west - America, the Caribbean, and South America - their involvement in the Trans Atlantic slave trade.

[@tFighterPilot]

Most Sephardic Jews went to north Africa, a few to eastern Europe. Those who went to America were only the converted ones, as it was under Spanish rule as well.

[@MrBoxer42]

The story of the Anusim is important too @fighter

[@joaquinflores3547]

some went to North America in countries in United States and Mexico, some of my ancestors were sephardic jews my family is from Mexico

[@blessedt5676]

@@tFighterPilotnot all crypto Jews actually converted. That’s why the oldest church in Puerto Rico and the western hemisphere was built by crypto Jews. Catholics have always been non practicing, also the oldest synagogues in the western hemisphere are in Latin America

[@user-fu1fj4tm6i]

The negros in America are for sure the bloodline of the Israelites everybody else going to have to prove it

[@user-cm4si9ir8z]

Imagine wanting citizenship to a country the kicked you out 5 centuries ago

[@anamariaguadayol2335]

Well, it's a safe spot when the country you live in now wants to kill you now for the same reason.

[@dominickcolon4755]

if you mean Israel, they REESTABLISHED Jewish rule because the first nation on the Land of Israel was, of course, Israel. It’s not the Jews’ faults that their occupiers and oppressors (Babylonians, Romans etc) expelled them and oppressed them-but what’s amazing is that they’ve maintained a continued presence on their own land for MILLENIUMS, even when they were the minority in Ottoman Turk-ruled Palestine and the British Mandate of Palestine. Palestine was a colonial name given to Ancient Israel by the Romans btw, and it was to mock the Jews.

[@agirlisnoone5953]

Imagine being offended about something a government, that no longer exists, did 500 years ago.

[@plusultra6199]

@@dominickcolon4755 Palestinians have also been there since the beginning but they had to convert to Islam. Where they not Philistines?

[@dominickcolon4755]

@@plusultra6199 The ancient Philistines and the modern-day Palestinians have virtually no connections. The modern-day Palestinians are of majority-Arab descent, with the majority of Gazans having significant amounts of Egyptian DNA (which makes lots of sense especially because mass Egyptian migration to Gaza during and between WWI and WWII having been well-documented). Also, Fathi Hamad, the former Interior Minister of Hamas’s political bureau (from 2009-2014) made a statement ripping at Egypt for not sending enough aid to Gaza and mentioned that for him, personally, his family is half-Egyptian and half-Saudi (which for the half-Saudi I’d assume he means Bedouins from northern Saudi Arabia who spread out in the Levant region). West Bank Palestinians are seemingly much more diverse with many being Lebanese, Syrian, Egyptian, Bedouin (Arabian), and many more different backgrounds. In the meanwhile, it’s widely believed that the Philistines were of Greek descent. In fact, according to Wikipedia, “the Philistines were an ancient people who lived on the south coast of Canaan during the Iron Age in a confederation of city-states generally referred to as Philistia. The Philistines originated as an immigrant group from the Aegean that settled in Canaan circa 1175 BC during the Late Bronze Age collapse. Over time, they gradually assimilated elements of the indigenous Levantine Semitic societies while preserving their own unique culture.” They were immigrants to the Levant and not indigenous, and Aegean refers to the Aegean Sea (between Greece and Turkey). And if Palestinians really ARE the descendants of Philistines, isn’t everyone saying “decolonize Palestine”? Maybe the first step toward doing that would be helping them rediscover their ancient religion and traditions instead of just being okay with a lot of them being radical, jihadist-sympathizing Islamist fanatics who want to see the state of Israel destroyed. If they really ARE the same people as the Philistines then maybe not that much has changed considering how they were both the enemies of Israel. 😒 Yes I typed a lot, I yapped, but if you want an explanation, here you go.

[@ronniefairley2388]

I wonder if we will ever talk about how the Jews funded the slave trade in this time period. Lol

[@UNPACKED]

Feel free to check out our other video on Jewish involvement in the slave trade here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/baO1on2Op7ilmqc

[@plusultra6199]

What about how they funded rebellions in Latin America which beniffitted Spains' enemies and held those countries into debt!

[@rabbidcrazy787]

Prove it

[@maciejskorupski1778]

Expelled time and again, over a 100 times and yet, always claiming innocence...

[@peytongorshavitzki6933]

Even though your unfounded claim of 100 times is retarded, 100 times over 4000 years is quite normal.

[@nessy2556]

They were expelled for being a different religion and Christianity and Islamic antisemetic verses dumb boy

[@jeremyjohnson4757]

“Claiming” innocence? What do you mean by that?

[@HarryFromTheNorthSide]

@@jeremyjohnson4757that they definitely didnt deserve to be genocided,but that theres more to the story than we are told

[@HarryFromTheNorthSide]

@@jeremyjohnson4757theyre literally committing genocide on the palestinian people and tking their whole country over by force

[@frozenxgls3708]

im Sephardic and also 16th generation American. my family came to New Mexico in 1607. Great video but I will say the Juderias are Barrios. Not a Ghetto. a barrio is also different in Spain than what we think as Americans. You can still visit the Juderias. A lot of them are still around today and have been preserved. The jews of Spain actually lived in wealth as a prominent culture or artists, crafters, aristocrats and more. Part of the reason they were a threat is because they had their own vibrant economy. The inquisition took that all away but before that living conditions for Jews and Muslims in Spain was actually very good.

[@frozenxgls3708]

I am qualified to speak on this because im 17 generations of historians. My mother is the current state historian of New Mexico so i grew up learning all of this an visiting spain my ancestral homeland my entire life.

[@sr2291]

I am just finding that out myself. The first people who populated Madeira Island in the 1400's, some of their grandchildren stayed there, and some of them went to Mexico and New Spain now New Mexico.

[@deborahfreedman333]

What part of New Mexico? When my grandfather came to the US, around the turn of the previous century, he moved to a thriving Jewish community in Las Vegas, NM. Most of the people living there were either Sephardim or Paiute. His father was Sephardi, the family had fled from Spain to Holland. There are a lot of crypto-Jews in New Mexico, who sadly lost their connection to their faith. Some have converted back to Judaism, but most remain lost and debased.

[@sr2291]

@Deborah Freedman Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in New Spain Established 4 November 1571 Disbanded 10 June 1820

[@jorgepalacio6910]

Barrio just means neighborhood. In Latin America it might mean like a rough neighborhood, but in European Spanish it is just "neighborhood", good, bad, vietnamese, Christian, etc doesn't matter.

[@har3036]

I can't fathom the time and energy some people are willing to spend on making other people's lives a hell.

[@picture-perfect]

Not much has changed.

[@SoldierAndrew]

Envy and Jealousy are evil spirits that possess humans and motivate them to perform all manner of evil

[@kingkoi6542]

Look up usury

[@NoahBodze-pm9ok]

Exactly! Why do Jews insist on living around white people and deviously skimming their wealth?

[@EnzoEnzo-it7vt]

It’s for the greater good… they are evil and cause and caused way too much of trouble in the world…

[@abrigospardos]

Though no nation can ever atone for past sins, it's also true that the past cannot be understood unless it's put in historical perspective. The Jews in Spain were given a tough choice (forced conversion or exile) but even that does not compare to the Holocaust in Nazi Germany, when the purpose was not assimilation but extermination. Also, in the case of Spain it is more appropriate to speak of anti-judaism than antisemitism. In other words, it was about religion, not race or ethnicity. In fact, several prominent conversos and/or descendants of conversos later became bishops or even Catholic saints, Theresa of Avila being a case in point. As I said, nothing can make up for past atrocities, but I'd say that doesn't mean they are all comparable to the Holocaust.

[@Solek95]

In Brazil these Jews were prohibited from marrying old Christians and could not work in the state and were constantly being persecuted for any reason. the impact on these people is noticeable even today as they do not talk about their ancestors.

[@ShivaTD]

Wait so it's consider persecution to not allow people of another religion to hold office in your Theocratic country? It seems a little unreasonable.

[@ninjawizard3865]

If no nation came ever make up for its past sins why the Germans still paying?

[@abrigospardos]

@@ninjawizard3865 Precisely, case in point. Because no matter how long they pay for them, the past cannot be changed.

[@ninjawizard3865]

@@abrigospardos Sounds like the Germans should stop paying, if they could.

[@butlerbees6639]

I’m sure it was for absolutely no reason

[@enriquehidalgo630]

If you look at all the land that Spain controlled in the New World and all the wealth extracted, Spain should be the wealthiest country in Europe.

[@artiek1177]

Throughout history, there is a price to be paid by the counties or civilizations that have persecuted the Jews. Babylon, Greece, Rome, Spain, etc.

[@motorheadbanger405]

England and France did it before, but no one talks about it. The final attack on the Jews in England came in the Edict of Expulsion in 1290, whereby Edward formally expelled all Jews from England. This not only generated revenues through royal appropriation of Jewish loans and property, but it also gave Edward the political capital to negotiate a substantial lay subsidy in the 1290 Parliament. The expulsion, followed a precedent set by other European rulers, including Philip II of France, John I, Duke of Brittany and Louis IX of France. It is not an excuse for what was done in Spain.

[@margasa8548]

Bit it's an excellent point!

[@themechanictangerine4337]

But Jews like English weenies

[@user-pp2km2zm6j]

Various kingdoms also expelled the Roma around the same time as the Spanish expulsion.

[@moonchildlara]

My maternal grandparents are both from Monterrey, Nuevo León, México & their families have lived in the area for over 400 years. We found Morisco ancestry on my grandfather’s side & Sephardic Jewish ancestry on my grandmother’s side. Interestingly enough, Monterrey itself was founded by governors & families of Crypto Sephardic Jewish descent who left Portugal in the late 1500s, early 1600s. We were very unaware of this fact but it is historically documented & truly fascinating. I am very proud of my Morisco/Sephardic roots! 🙂

[@julioalexo]

Awesome 🙌🙌

[@lavarburton1849]

If that is your heritage, you will never be accepted by the "in-group", who actually is racist against you, why do you think their name is AshkeNAZI? They are a racially exclusive, White Supremacist bloodline known as the Khazarian Kommunist Klan

[@rachelpollett6070]

king david committed genocide on goliaths people. where are they today? eradicated. now cry victim

[@ericv7720]

Same here! My grandmother was from around Monterrey. Her first child (my uncle, now deceased) went by the nickname "Shema." Nobody in the family knows where it came from, except that it was passed down through the generations.

[@emmamiller4262]

😊😊o[

[@jenniferbreaux7385]

Thank u for bring these uncomfortable yet important topics to the forefront.

[@margasa8548]

Why uncomfortable?

[@jenniferbreaux7385]

@@margasa8548 empathy

[@margasa8548]

@jenniferbreaux7385 hello 👋, are those bringing the topic to the forefront Spanish? I honestly don't know. I think the Spaniards are tired of hearing complaints. Empathy is present on one to one conversations. You didn't mean that Jews we should be empathic towards them, right?

[@anniescorfano]

WE WANT THE TRUTH. MY HISPANIC PEOPLE WANT THE TRUTH OF THEIR HERITAGE!!! REVEAL THE TRUTH OUT TO THE PUBLIC NOW. WE NEED TO PROTEST

[@lizbethartemis4886]

Give DNA tests to all those ruling Israel. Let’s see how many are actually Hebrews.

[@anamariaguadayol2335]

​@@lizbethartemis4886actually, it's being done on a voluntary basis and lo and behold, our DNA says we are from that region of the world. There's an UNPACKED about that. Check it out 😊

[@cocobunny5744]

The truth is that black people are the real Jew

[@rinkohorowitz]

@@lizbethartemis4886Israel has no “rulers” it’s a parliamentary democracy.

[@joncowley7185]

Why didn't you touch on the life of Jews under the moors before the reconquista? I feel like it is a vital detail to omit

[@channeler231]

​@@UncleAlf1889 Listen asshole about jews being traitors YOU forgot another very important detail in WHY the sephardic jews helped the moors in taking over Spain Einstein. And that is when the germanic troglodytes of the visigorhs came to Spain in the year 500 A.D they beought catholicism to Spain BUT they also created the worldwide infamous spanish racism wich now is far more deeply rooted in all of Latin america and also they created and instigated antisemitism in Spain too. Did yoy know that the visigoths used to drown jewish babies in water wells in Spain put of pure racial hatred towards jews or dis you knew that one member of the spanish aristocracy wrote a letter to his muslim neighbours urgung them to help them to get rid of the despotic visigothic king Roderik II who xame to the throne in 709 A.D and who became so hated by all of Spain that when Tarik bin Ziyad entered the kingdomnand arrested the king and later executed him NOBODY stood up for the king. Now what does it tell you about what kind of human garbage the visigoths were as people and rulers too. Next time THINK and do some research before you start writing such nasty nonsense about other people here on YT ok.

[@manateemilk1]

That’s awful, I read somewhere that 119 nations have expelled then throughout history.

[@BigBoss7777777]

Guess what, if everyone has an issue with you then YOU are the problem. They need to take some accountability.

[@zombievikinggaming4258]

Why did they go through a golden age immediately after expelling jews? That's a fascinating question.

[@CarribeanCJ]

I mean they only went overseas and took all the gold they could and brought back to Spain. You need to go outside and touch some grass kid

[@dinnerandashow]

Failed to explain why the two had soo much conflict.

[@alexsoterios]

I have Portuguese Jewish ancestors on both my mother's and father's sides, it's so sad to think of everything my ancestors went through during this period of extreme persecution. Brazil today has a large percentage of descendants of those persecuted by the Portuguese and Spanish inquisition.

[@tambordecrioula]

Pode ver os meus comentários sobre o seu caso que acabei de postar. Shalom.

[@mimovk]

Really interesting and fascinating. I wish more people will do DNA tests to find out

[@sr2291]

​@mimo DNA Tests only go back 5 to 8 generations, so your ancestors before that will not show up on a test.

[@jasonk795]

Being a Jew only passes through the Mothers side. Father side is irrelevant.

[@Willy_Tepes]

​@@jasonk795 Before the exile it was passed through the father's side. After being banished from their homeland and sent into slavery by the Romans, that was the only way to pass on traditions because you now had a Roman Daddy :) You are basically a bunch of bastards :) (Killing a prophet of the Lord comes with huge Karmic debt.)

[@user-cn5so7jj3z]

Im Sefardic jew our Ancestor family were expelled from Spain and moved to the Iberian area they mainly moved to Italy (venecia,liverno) from there moved to Rodos island and some lived in Turkey our Family names (Franco,Mayo,Alhadeff,Amato) still looking for information on our Ancestors the journey has just begun

[@AmyMichelleMosier]

Sounds like a DNA test is in order!

[@houseofjudah7470]

And you are NOT black,

[@margasa8548]

So they must have known my great grandparents if they lived in Esmirna (Yismir) all Jews lived together and left Turkey to go to Uruguay.

[@user-cn5so7jj3z]

@@margasa8548 Very interesting i will ask my brother he is doing research on our Family so I will let him know what you wrote he has all of the information our Family left from Rodos to RHODESIA in Africa and others left to U.S.A

[@margasa8548]

@houseofjudah7470 we are all colors. At some point we thought whitening would save oír lives, since white people like white people, for some reason we thought that would help us. It wasn't on purpose. Also there were a lot of sexual abuse during wars and pogroms. But we also have the color that you like. And converts are many colors also. 2500 years don't pass without leasing a mark. We are not a race. Are all Canadians one color only. We don't belong in your race conception idea or theory. Race has been transcended. We are all one race: the human race.

[@Nadi_ahh]

Its like the Palestinians first Nakba... once they were forced to leave in the face of war they had NO RIGHTS OF RETURN. Why should the Jews get this right in Spain or any other country.

[@shaunvegburger5718]

Spain also expelled or killed Muslims during Inquisition. Interestingly, it were the Muslim majority countries that opened their doors to Jews, they include: Turkey, Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, Iran, and others.

[@homyce]

The jews flourished in Andalucia. The year 1492 was the same year that the last Andalusian kingdom fell in Grenada and all Muslims and Jews were expelled. Its the reason why Morroco had the largest number of Jewish population in all of Arab countries.

[@zombievikinggaming4258]

Yes Jews and Muslims have always been allies against the west, this is true.

[@biggus333]

spain then entered a golden age, while those muslim countries started collapsing and getting weaker, hmmmmmmmmm 🤔 jooooooos 🤔

[@connor1414]

There was a child sacrifice that year or the year before that played a part in the expulsion

[@picture-perfect]

Around the same time, the Portuguese shipped a considerable number of Jews to the island of Sao Tome (West Africa) to work as slaves, growing sugar cane. A few are believed to have escaped to Angola.

[@plusultra6199]

The Jews didn't want to pay taxes and were notorious for this although they did like to be tax collectors and keep some for themselves! Jews didn't protect Spain and instead protected the interests' of foreign invaders as it suited them. The Juderias were not gettos. They were just Jewish areas. Many of the torturers were actually of Jewish stock such as the leader of torture, Torquemada and Martinez was also one of them. The Jews have continously used anti Spanish propaganda in various enemy states. I have nothing against Jews as individual people as i've met some good ones but if you want to do things solely on the interests of Jews and not Spain, it's better if you stay in Israel.

[@naser766]

You are Anti-Semitism!!

[@rinkohorowitz]

The claim that Jews “didn’t want” to pay taxes is dubious. Especially considering as they were often forced to pay unreasonably high taxes. Christians could not lend to other Christians as it was forbidden in their religion, and Jews were barred from many craftsman guilds and other professions, so they were forced to become tax collectors and bankers. Crying about Jews not protecting Spain is strange considering that Spanish Catholics oppressed them since about 800 AD, starting with the Visigoths and continuing into the era of Queen Isabella. Why would I, as a Jew, protect a country full of people that hate me? To demand fealty from people that you hate and oppress on a daily basis is very presumptuous. And I do not know of this anti-Spanish propaganda that you are talking about. My sister lived in Spain for several years and she said one of the main things that she noticed is that sexism and racism is plentiful over there. Like Italy it can be more overt. I don’t think that is anti-Spanish, if it is a fact, and if so then perhaps you should stop being racist. Other than that I have never hear any negative things about Spain. Only positive things; in fact, my younger sister is obsessed with Spanish food and culture and the country itself. She even taught herself to speak fluent Spanish and started learning Catalan.

[@plusultra6199]

@@rinkohorowitz Look at Michael Howard. Is he not a Jew? He always uses anti Spanish propoganda. Martinez the carpenter of Cortez was a Jew so they did have trades. Jews were traiters to Spain and helped Muslims so they were going to be disliked. If I helped Hamas against Israel whilst living in Israel, I'm sure you'd call me a traiter. Also Jews chanted for the murder of Jesus whilst letting a criminal go. This is always going to put a strain on relations which enforced Catholics to think negatively of them, especially when they came to think that Catholicism had helped them in victory. Racism exists everywhere in the World, including in Israel. You only have to look how appallingly they treat Ethiopian Jews. There are youtube videos on it. Sexism is less than in many other countries. I don't remember any of my female relatives not being allowed to work in public places unlike in other countries.

[@xcjgilsx]

bunch of bullsht

[@user-vh3fr3lb8w]

​@@rinkohorowitzI agree with you.

[@moel.v-b6435]

Am mixed races with sephardic jewish ✡ and indigenous Americas mexico and spain 🇪🇸 and others races Portuguese

[@anniescorfano]

Same bro samee

[@ericponce8740]

When the Spanish monarchs kicked out the Jews and Muslims from the country, it created a void in the merchant, banking, and medical professions in Spain. The Ottoman Empire welcomed Sephardic Jews to Constantinople.

[@gigelfrone6592]

Bullshit. After the expulsion of parasites the golden age of Spain followed.

[@musicnotes4755]

Amazing video. Thank you for this!

[@DavidCalderonNJ]

My ancestors were Sephardi who escaped Spain went to Morocco. My great grandfather went to South America from Morocco to be involved in the rubber business in the late 1800s. It's so amazing that I'm here. We are still here!!

[@safuwanfauzi5014]

why muslim take jewish? turkey, egypt, morocco why not jews go to france, italy?

[@eladjudah2908]

you are an arab jew not a sephardi jew

[@everythingandmore5537]

​@@eladjudah2908 The othomons never did an inquisition against the Jews in their land. I always wondered why?

[@channeler231]

​@@eladjudah2908 Maghrebi jew NOT arab jew that term does not exist ok.

[@eladjudah2908]

@@channeler231 they are look and bahave just like arabs

[@pierreb03038]

This is exactly my family's history. Spain, Portugal and finally Northern Africa.

[@picture-perfect]

They were also shipped to the island of Sao Tome (West Africa).

[@thomasbarca9297]

My ancestor was forced to convert to Catholicism and married my other ancestor and fled to the Lipari Islands around 1460, I always heard in my family so I had got a dna test found Sephardic and ashkenazi ancestry from my father and from my mother

[@gerberjoanne266]

I heard that, at least in Spain, the program to accept Sephardic Jews as citizens has foundered, and not many Jews have been accepted. One interpretation I heard was that Jewish authorities in Spain were the problem because they were too demanding in terms of the criteria for who could be considered Jewish.

[@joelsays]

Im a decendent of Spanish Jews from both sides of my family. All I have to say about this video is that its pure rubbish. Its based on selective history, manipulation of facts and the purposeful exclusion of the politics and economics of Iberia from the time of the Visigoths to the end of the Islamic domination. This narrative adds fuel to hatred and its dishonesty does nothing to help people understand the facts around the Inquisition and the role of the Jews in Spain. It is basically a modernized version of the Black Legend polished for modern audiences. The Inquisition in Spain took place, thousands were killed, Muslims and Jews were expelled, along with other non-Catholics. But, those events did not pop-up without a historical context and a long line of causes and effects. Most countries in Western Europe had their Inquisitions and expelled Jews as well. But, that is rarely mentioned. Today, there is ethnic cleansing in Israel against the Arabs and millions of Palestinians have lost their properties and live in poverty all over the world. There are no clean hands when it comes to the exploitation and abuse of one people over another. Instead of rubbing acid over old wounds, we should focus on a peaceful future. No one holds a monopoly on pain, and to manipulate it for any reason is wrong.

[@larosadesierta9146]

Ethnic cleansing in Israel? 😂 so, how come the Arab population is growing in Israel? Arabs have equal rights here. It’s the Arab states that have almost no Jews anymore after thousands of years of Jewish presence. Where’s the real ethnic cleansing? Arab Muslim states. Your comment is rubbish.

[@margasa8548]

Hello pure rubbish. There is no ethnic cleansing, there is no Apartheid. Stop creating fictions which is equivalent to creating hatred. You cannot slander without impunity. If there is ethnic cleansing anywhere here, it is in the mind and desires of Islam organizations that say it openly: they say they will not stop until the Jews are in the sea. But that is only in their imagination and low desires. Nowhere in reality. Israel doesn't target Palestinians. Palestinians have clean hands. When they have weapons: rocks, knives, guns, bombs with nails, they are targeting civilians, Jews, children, they are NOT Palestinians, they are Hamas activists. Your use of words is an attack that seeks to wound using the Shoa against us. Absolutely unfounded to use the term Ethnic cleansing. As I said, only in the mind of Hamas. Pali-wood, fictions of Aljazeera.

[@margasa8548]

You are the best example I have encountered of an antisemitic Jew. You go against your own people. Our enemies, Islam are better than you, because they are faithful to one another. There is a moment to be silent, when all you have to say is lies. If you are a Jew, you are free. I cannot do anything, not even suffer for your misinformation. If you are not Jew, I say you lie and declare your false opinion valueless. I will debunk your lies one by one. But you have to go deep. Finish one, and then another. Face me. Are you a Jew? Would you say so if you were? You're just doing kt for the hatred, and don't really care who you are. Arab-Israelies flourish inside of Israel. Those who are not Israelies, their authorities are declared enemies of Israel, using the term 'Palestinian' to create a fiction of victimization. And of course, the media goes with it to advance its own agenda. Not relevant. Not even interesting. Quite pathetic.

[@oscarpine4735]

Thank you, so many people just look at one side with no nuance. Like how this forgets to mention that this is all after a 700 year war. Thank you for being unbiased!

[@margasa8548]

We are sitting among ourselves, remembering and sharing feelings. It's like a memorial or funeral. Your icecube comments and false accusations of Apartheid do not have a place here. We can be objective, but NOT here. Because we chose to come and join other Jews who understand why we are and share memories. And to hit us when we are sitting on the floor and covering our mirrors is simply rude. We have feelings. We are human. And if judging and criticizing is what you came here to do.... it is you who is out of place, not us. Would you like it if I were to go to a private and family funeral wearing clown's clothes and making people laugh, telling jokes about the dead? When will you ever finish to impose your reality that Jews are just the source of joke material? Don't be rude, and get out of our moment. We loved Spain because it looks like Jerusalem, we contributed to its foundation. We cry here like we cry by the rivers of Babylon. And you come judging and laughing like enemies. It's a question of timing. After the Shiva is over: fight us while we are standing: otherwise those watching will think you are cowards. I'm a woman, but my words I mean them to be fists. You are mean hearted. We are a people that doesn't hurt others. Yes, we can hurt others, but bot voluntarily, not on purpose. Hamas, Islam us waging a war against us and are our declared enemies. Their agenda is Islam NOT Palestinians. That is why, there are many Palestinians that are with Israel, because they want to work and put food on the table and are not Hamas activists. Hamas targets children and civilians, Israel doesn't. Israel targets missile firing bases. And you Spanish people,like me, I assume, Fontanarosa y Pineda, I don't know what your problem is. Judging suffering you know nothing about. It would be better if you would tend to your business instead of continuing the tradition of ridiculizing Jews, hitting us when we are down, or naked and transparent.

[@wilhelmhesse1348]

It is said by some that Sephardic Jews also played a prominent role in the Transatlantic slave trade.

[@picture-perfect]

I've heard the same thing! I also heard that they were enslaved.

[@santaklaus11]

"Thousands died" at the hands of the inquisition ... barely 3,000 during a 300 year period, to be exact. This number is absolutely minuscule compared to the standard of civil courts of the age, in Spain, but mostly throughout Europe. Believe it or not the inquisition was at the forefront of prisoner and accused rights, for its time, and was known to procure accused people of legal representatives to defend their cases, as well as properly feeding its prisoners. People accused of otherwise petty crimes were known to deliberately say heretic things to fall under the umbrella of the inquisition, which de facto acted as a central government (federal, in modern US parlance) court of law and had much higher standards to declare people guilty or not. Yes, it may have been a barbaric court system by today's standards but in its historical and geographic context the Inquisition was actually VERY NICE. Examples such as the wars of religion throughout Europe, witchcraft persection, or the expulsion of Jews from France in 12th century or from England in the 13th (for some reason modern Jews never talk about that... speaking of generational trauma) show that the 15th and 16th century legal system in Spain was just the standard, on the good side, for its time. So save your black legend rubbish and try to be a tad more objective next time.

[@jtzoltan]

When you say "3000 died in 300 years" are you referring to Jews specifically, or the inclusive total of all people executed by the Inquisition?

[@santaklaus11]

@@jtzoltan Jews were not under the jurisdiction of the inquisition, at most it would be conversos. And I mean ALL sentences by the inquisition.

[@tFighterPilot]

France and England had a smaller Jewish community, so the impact wasn't as much.

[@MrBoxer42]

Dude a simple google search will show you that in 200 years there was over 30,000 executions and 40,000 for the Portuguese and Spanish Inquisitions. You are spreading false information so Piss of you antisemite

[@CarribeanCJ]

@@santaklaus11conversos are Jews

[@BoldTruth3]

And we’re still here by a miracle of God. I believe I am a descendant of Sephardic Portuguese Jews. I’ve been doing a lot of research and digging into my family’s past. The more I dig in, the more Jewish it looks. This has been a secret that has been hidden for hundreds of years. It’s good to see that it is coming out into the light. 🙌🏻

[@anniescorfano]

Same here! I’m Latina and I did research on my family and even Hispanic friends and it’s looking very Jewish as a result 👀!

[@chrisfritsch7934]

You're not alone. Im learning more and more through ancestry, and Im finding i might have it on both sides, and Im Spanish/Portuguese and Alsatian. I just thought i was half Mexican, but thats only 10%.

[@gloryakiepper7918]

I learned so much about our history and it makes me feel fabulous. The more I learn the better it is. Please keep videos like this going.🎉🎉😊🎉🎉🎉

[@monkeycat48]

I got another video you can go look at look up the most evil men and women in history Spanish inquisitor general Tomas De Torquemada. Besides him, there are others on the list doing well known figures like Adolf Hitler Joseph Stalin are on that list there’s quite a few other evil figures

[@sonnysantana5454]

funny thing 1' of the oldest Jewish temple's in the western hemisphere is on the island nation of Puerto Rico its over 500' years old and the cemetery is sephardic jews and some Portuguese sailors who were from the Columbus expeditions

[@lizbethartemis4886]

hey they do not want to know.

[@sonnysantana5454]

@@fedevida1951 for me it's research and history books but you probably do googie and pigapidia

[@joselevy5084]

It's really great that you talk about these issues on your channel, well, it's that part of the history of us as Jews that is often unknown. As Sephardim we know these stories in some cases, but many do not know about it. Important historical issues to addres. Very good, your channel is beautiful 🫰🏻

[@aaronjennings8385]

Really informative.

[@natalieshemtov]

Thank you for creating this video

[@AdoptedCats]

I never seen Filipino Sephardic Jews、but they talking about this !

[@commodusmeridius4718]

"Samuel Hanagid" Deserves a video World should hear about this great person.

[@plusultra6199]

Yes tell us about the Jew who fought for Muslim colonizers against Spain? Then you will wonder why some hatred and suspicion developed towards them. You can't have it both ways. You can't fight against the Spanish and expect to be liked by them!

[@anamariaguadayol2335]

About two years ago my youngest son finished the application and now he, his wife and his two children are Spanish citizens and living in Barcelona. Though I am also a Sephardic Jew, through their father, the boys are descended of Yehuda Lerma of 16th century Spain.

[@amram1305]

They're just like 5$ indians in america.

[@anthonybrakus5280]

Is this Martha Quinn come back in a time machine to share video essays with us? I'm here for it!

[@WTFBRUTUS]

Wish she would’ve gone into the initial Muslim rule of Spain…were told a lot of things happened in 1492 but most importantly is the Fall of Granada. This explains a lot of what she’s talking about as side of effect of this war

[@UNPACKED]

Thanks for this comment, it's definitely another video idea to consider for the future!

[@fiddlejohn9305]

A crypto-Jewish friend from New Mexico whose family has lived there since the 17th century said they refer to themselves as “Los Obscuros” - “The Hidden.”

[@lizbethartemis4886]

los oscuros live very well. In Native American land, they are white. BS.

[@ardena30]

the Spanish golden age started right after the expulsion

[@margasa8548]

If you call Golden Age stealing minerals from Mount Potosi and the Aztecs and not developing their industry like the British and Dutsch and being totally dependent from those two and importing everything in exchange of those minerals. What you call the Spanish Gllden Age is not a Golden Age, it is a Gold Age. The problemn is they lost this gold very fast. So it is really, the basing of the Dutch and British Golden Age of Industry and banking. Why? That's were the Jews went. But we did not create banks. The Dutch and the British did. We just went with the idea, and it was successful. I say this before they start blaming us for things that are not our making. It's a genius idea, though, which allowed human progress for many centuries to come, until now. And whoever doesn't like it, can start thinking, inventing and manifesting something else.

[@vry3555]

I think you mean it ended when they expelled the Jews and it hasn't recovered to date. Portugal flourished when they moved across and became the dominant world power in its day then also went into decline when they persecuted the Jews just as Spain had done. They also haven't recovered their glory days. YHWH doesn't sleep and no one touches the apple of His eye without consequences

[@margasa8548]

It only seems that way to the uneducated eye.

[@vry3555]

@@margasa8548 lol, sure it does

[@margasa8548]

@vry3555 me: autodidact. Now, what is the connection with the Iberian peninsula? In other geological eras, was there a lot of flooding there?I'm learning. And you guys from Giorgia are very quiet. So, don't laugh please. Is that why? I mean, did the waters come all over to Giorgia is that what you mean?

[@cintiahamilton]

There are lots of Sepharadic Jews in Brazil, a lot of them are discovering it now , after so long. They have particular family traditions but didn't know it was part of Jewish culture and religion! Lots of them changed their names. I might be a descendant and not know it

[@aaronmoreno8918]

My Sephardic ancestors fled Spain 🇪🇸 and ended up in Mexico 🇲🇽, mixing with the local Indigenous Natives of Michoacán and Zacatecas. But they were aware of their Jewish ancestry and Moorish ancestry.

[@alanabernstein2081]

My family left Spain moved to Russia and eventually United States, I Know an entire Community in NY OF US SEPHARDIM it's ridiculous what the entire World has done to us!

[@itsytyt5192]

Hhaa

[@joaquinflores3547]

same my dads family where originally Sephardic jews from as Spain as well and settled in the state of Mexico and also mixed with the native Nahuatl of the area, interesting to hear that your family has a similar story

[@SoldierAndrew]

Jews can only marry other Jews or a Jewish convert. Jews can't marry non-Jews.

[@jareddavidhirsh4948]

My family on both sides were expelled from Toledo in 1454, then they emigrated to the Netherlands, then eventually Argentina and Italy… How do we go about getting our Spanish citizenship and lands back?

[@NewsStripper]

Yes, the real estate that was stolen. How do we proceed, who gets what? Do you share it?

[@jp5419]

Citizenship, maybe. Land? Good luck. Poland gave back right to citizenship for expelled jews... not land or property. New owners now. Wouldn't be right to take it from new owners and return it. Like returning America to indigenous peoples. Too much time has passed.

[@jimharlow1038]

Hirsch is a ashkenazy surname

[@jareddavidhirsh4948]

@@jimharlow1038 My last name is D’altobrando-Hirsh.

[@jimharlow1038]

@@jareddavidhirsh4948 from did the Hirsch come from just curious It's my surname too btw

[@bennierodriguez9856]

I am Sephardic and know this horrific history, this was our Holocaust in 1492. I still keep some of our culture so that I will never forget ❣️🙏 Hashem🙏

[@bennierodriguez9856]

My Actual Name is Benjamin Alphenberg Rodrigues ❣️

[@lizbethartemis4886]

You are NOT the only ones. American Indians in the Americas were also forced to convert.

[@crystalclear6660]

I have a Sephardic sir name. It was one of the crypto sir names. These relatives are still all practicing Catholics. Growing up I never knew that side, so they in turn do not know that the last name is actually a Jewish name.

[@margasa8548]

I can tell you why Spain expelled its Jews: they were building nationality, unifying their young country after centuries of war against the Arabs-Moors. They needed their moment of being all the same, all equal, all Spanish. So, :the other" was unwanted.

[@juliorivera5649]

What a good documentary, my heart exploded with pride when you said: we are still here, Shalom!! 🙌🙌🙌👏👏👏👏

[@Madpencildust22]

No wonder why I always felt drawn to Jewish history. I found out that I have Jewish decent on my dads side. He was born Mexico with roots in Spain, Portugal so on. It’s so interesting how our roots call to us, especially when we didn’t know it until later.

[@fundacionhoracioducharne]

Well ... the legend against Spain is still there. Why?. Remember that some separdics (not all of them of course) went to Holland and England and contributed to the piracy againts Spain from XVI century. Those sephardics brought the knowledge about ship buildings, trade routes, geography, astronomy and more helping the enemies of Spain. Some important families like Roosevelt came from those expelled sephardics.

[@anniescorfano]

ROOSEVELT?? No wonder he loved the federal government so much

[@anniescorfano]

Yes my dad told me about this it’s so fascinating

[@jozefgrunmann7998]

Horacio, it is not legend against Spain. It is historical reality, Ask my dead ancestors.

[@ravimahalay610]

Murdering someone for being of different religion is itself completely non religious .People following different paths to go to to same destination,that should be no problem

[@selfautonomy7774]

My family is of Sephardic origins via the expulsion of them from Spain and Portugal . Also, the converts who came to Hispaniola during the 14th-17th centuries , actually Many peoples from Dominican Republic are of Sephardic ancestry without knowing them , it’s all over the surnames and history

[@anniescorfano]

YESS! And are Cubans as well. That’s why in Miami there’s a Sephardic congregation since there are soooo many Cubans with Sephardic Jew ancestry

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

I have Sephardic ancestors who fled to England from Spain. The Sephardim fled to Oliver Cromwell's England. And as a American of English descent I am proud of having Sephardic ancestry.

[@franciscoosuna259]

@unpacked I am glad that you began with Spain is now more open and diverse. History can be tragic, but the history of tomorrow begins today. I am from the USA and now living in Spain. I find the political climate here more tolerant. I would recommend Spain as a place to live. Respect for each other benefits all. I see that Pope Francis has shown numerous efforts to show by example that we CAN accommodate other cultures. He is doing what he can. I want to do what I can. In a world filled with many cultures and ideas do you have any suggestions for what can be done to improve inter-cultural relations?

[@Patrick_919]

"Every government has a rap sheet." Yeah, I've seen Israel's.

[@MetaGPT]

Well , as a Hindu I would suggest Jews to consider Space exploration and planetary colonization. It sounds silly , however we never know what great things are out there..

[@mikerotchburnz389]

Sure we can consider that providing Hindus will go there first to test if the grounds are livable LOL

[@MetaGPT]

@@mikerotchburnz389 will do it Bro 😊😁

[@14TND88]

If Jews ever learn space travel they would no doubt import millions of aliens to white countries

[@martinduartediniz5889]

As a Portugiesen National. I never agreed with the past. with the Catholic Inquisition. Today as a Portuguese national, it is By right all Portuguese and Spanish Jewish people should return back home to Portugal in Spain. As it is my home it is their home to, And every time I walk on the Jewish settlement in old Lisbon I feel they missing, and part of our culture is missing. As a Catholic I am ashamed of my church what they’ve done and I should apologise. But one thing would be a dream come true used to see these people come back home where they belong. A lot of our Portuguese history and Spanish history would have not been made without them. It is time to come back come back home.

[@kenhall5070]

I think that all types of jewelry should be allowed. Fashion is a choice of the individual

[@corgismclean]

Just idiotic... the inquisition killed between 5,000 and 10,000 people in over 3 centuries. There were rules about only torturing if by information obtained not by torture they knew someone was lying and the torture was water boarding just like the USA did to alleged terrorists in the early 2000s. Pogroms were common all over Europe and one of the reasons to set the inquisition was to have a trial in an organized way. If someone was accused he had to name 10 people who hated him and if one of them was the accusers he was let go. The black legends thrives! The Jews were expelled from England 4 times, some of them after paying NOT to be expelled, etc.

[@emrahal7178]

Im from the balkans and my brother did a genealogy test. Funny enough it showed 20 percentage iberian among other obvious ethnicities. I knew that the ottomans took many refugees from the inquisition in 1492 but ive always wanted to know more about what happened to the moors and sephardics from iberia, or read stories about them or a biography. One of the famous old desserts in the balkans is trilece. South american dessert tres leches. Lece doesnt mean milk in any balkan language as i know. Would be fun to know more of the historic connections cause i couldnt trace it further back than to our grandmothers saying it was made as a luxury dessert. Unfortunately the jewish communities in the balkans suffered also during ww2. For those talking about golden age in spain, they actually suffered a lot and had an economic slump because they expelled a lot of muslims and jews, while the ottoman empire at the moment had a golden age thanks to the influx of different cultures. There is a famous saying from the sultan " You venture to call Ferdinand a wise ruler, he who has impoverished his own country and enriched mine" Golden age of spain started when they discovered the americas and enslaved its peoples and resources. Could go on and on about the economic crises spain created for itself and impoverished its own country from the "genius" inquisition.

[@margasa8548]

Haha hilarious. I know.

[@dunitasbrotton8788]

there was a Golden Age of Spain with the Califato de Cordoba. 8 centuries were the Arabs comtrolling all of Spain or some of it. A loong time before the inquisition

[@nataliabazali2806]

Do you know that Iberian it is modern Georgia, In the past Georgia was Iberia and Kolkhida

[@margasa8548]

Ethnicity cannot be established by DNA testing, only through family relations.

[@margasa8548]

@nataliabazali2806 Georgia is in what used to be in the past: the Tartarian Empire, that Russian communists have wonderfully achieved to erase, the way we very well see. The Greeks were afraid of it, Tartarus was the Underworld, death. (The last part is my idea....)

[@dunharrowfarm7815]

Saint Teresa of Ávila (1515) was born into a converso family, which caused her much grief with the Inquisition. Today, she is a Doctor of the Church.

[@dawahaddict]

Can they reopen the citizenship opportunity? It was only open a couple of years! That’s not enough. And why should it be so hard to prove your ancestry? Not every person of Sephardic ancestry has documents and details, which should be no surprise, since we were expelled centuries ago. Yet we have not forgotten who we are.

[@WMedl]

You did not even mention that under moslem rule in Spain the Jews had not been persecuted, nor Christians for their religion. And the expelled Jews were invited by the Ottoman Sultan to come the Ottoman Empire so the largest Sephardic community was established in Saloniki and extinguished by the German Nazis.

[@themechanictangerine4337]

Muslims killed the entire Jewish population of Granada in the massacre of 1066.

[@WMedl]

@@fedevida1951 Yes after the seize of power by the Almoravids there had been such movements but the reign of the Almoravids did not last very long.

[@lapieblanche6863]

@@fedevida1951 it was just the almoravids being assholes

[@alfgui3295]

Granada 1066, progrom against Jews. That's just one example of muslim tolerance against jews, because against christians the list goes on and on and on. Fix your naivety, it's not endearing if you are an adult.

[@jonl3696]

As a kid, my grandmother pulled me aside, handed me a piece of paper, and said, "Take this." It was a prayer written in some foreign language on the back of a cigarette wrapper with an interesting brand name, "Alhambra"! She said, "This is a prayer my grandmother taught me when I was a girl.” I did not know what the prayer meant, nor the language it was written in until 2013 while I was in NYC, when out of curiosity, I went to a Friday night Shabbat service. At the end of the Shabbat service, the rabbi began: "Yitgadal veyitkadash shmei rabah..." tears began to stream down my cheeks--"That's it! That's the prayer my abuela taught me!" I thought! It was the only Jewish tradition that my Filipina-Spanish grandmother passed on to me---perhaps the last remaining sign of her Sephardic Jewish roots. She was a Perez.

[@maryloucoulson2556]

I THOUGH THEY WERE GOÐS CHOSEN PEOPLE.

[@maryloucoulson2556]

Were they God's chosen people

[@maryloucoulson2556]

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[@Moonchilling]

Cuban descendent here. Many from the Canary Islands settled in Cuba since it is close. Mother’s maiden name is Perez-Avila.

[@ashsavant9494]

OMG 😱 the same things were done in Goa (india) by Portuguese. They also implemented inquisition on Goan Hindus and muslims and newly converted Catholics. Goa at that time had a small Jewish population even dy were persecuted by the Portuguese

[@lizbethartemis4886]

they are not the only people’s to be persecuted and forced to convert.

[@tw1705]

Half Ashkenazi Polish Jew & a quarter Sephardic Spaniard here. Unfortunately, I've had Muslims, Christians, and even Sephardic Jews tell me I'm not a "real Jew"... My great-uncle who died in Auschwitz missed that memo...

[@rinkohorowitz]

I’m sorry to hear about your great uncle. I am half Ashkenazi Polish-Jew and Japanese; I have black hair and blue eyes so I get the same “fake Jew” accusation semi-regularly. It is hard to deal with if you had family members that went through oppression or died in the concentration camps. I look like a mixed person. My twin sister looks more Asian. People really need to stop obsessing over ethnicity and start looking at character. I never had any questions at all about where I came from because my parents made it extremely clear to me. The first time I experienced antisemitism was when I was 12. When I was 13 I started surfing the internet more and more due to uni studies and I noticed that it was all over the internet, a lot of people hated us and I didn’t understand why. My mother told me but I just didn’t know why. I thought well we help people and we do charity work and the things they said about Jews being greedy and quick and controlling the world and all of their historical revisionism were so strange to me. It was so different to anything I had read in history books, talked to people about, and experienced in life. In Japan people are very curious and ask many questions. That is because there was no Christianity so the hatred is nonexistent unlike in Europe.

[@danajeff2020]

Incredibly informative! I had no familiarity with the history of Spanish Jewry and the horrible persecution they suffered.

[@HELLH0WND]

It's not informative it's just more Zionist victim persecution propaganda which is all over social media now.

[@normalhispanicdude]

Spanish inquisition actually only had religious jurisdiction over Christians, so the Jews who did not leave Spain after 1492 were the ones who suffered inquisition brutality. In the Spanish National Library archives there are records of the atrocities committed. Those Jews who where in Spain after 1492 were forced to convert to Christianity, and because of that suffered prosecution with penalties such as auto-da-fé.

[@MoisePicard-no9by]

I am French Haitian. And, I support The Jewish Exile.

[@tripsinasiaminor]

That is an amazing story and I never knew any of this history 😮 Thank you for educating us.

[@Willy_Tepes]

Now, ask why they were hated ;)

[@doopiss]

Can we do this in America?

[@gladioveritas9407]

For your information, long before Spain attempted to expel its Jews, other countries - notably England (in 1290) and France (in 1306) - had ordered expulsion. This should be compared with the fact that Jewish power, influence, and numbers were far greater in Spain during the Middle Ages than anywhere else in Europe. In short, the Jew achieved a true golden age in medieval Spain. Moreover, the Spanish Inquisition (which occurred during medieval times) was not a “house of bloody horrors” but rather similar to contemporary 9/11 Homeland Security Hearings. It must be quickly pointed out that many Jews continued to live and prosper in Spain and her dominions either as genuine Christians or as crypto-Jews.

[@RustScarcelli]

AMAZING VIDEO WOW

[@OneMondBand]

I am of Spanish descent, although my ancestors were more recently in Galicia, so we hold Chassidic customs. Personally, I think the whole idea of Jews identifying with a diaspora nation from the past is a fallacy. You are Jewish, not Spanish. I noted one of the citizenship recipient referring to the Inquisition as their holocaust. Do you see any German, Polish, and Hungarian Jews trying to return to Hungary, Poland, and Germany? Of course not. Personally, my ancestors have had a rich history in Germany and Galicia, but we have no inclination towards even visiting those places. One of the things we need to learn as Jews is to let go of our diaspora past. Yes, our current identity might have been shaped by the countries in which we have lived for hundreds of years, hundreds of years ago. But we don't live there anymore. Right now, we are looking towards the future, and we hope that will be in Israel. So, yes, continue with your food, music, and prayer customs from hundreds of years ago. That is extremely important and special. But identify as Spanish? No. Cut the cord.

[@Dor150]

2000 years of exile do their thing. Look at Israel

[@miriamzajfman4305]

I completely agree with you !

[@briandfox16]

I agree. With regard to Germany, the only people I know who take advantage of these programs are Christians with one Jewish grandparent who was a victim of the Holocaust. My family would never go back to Germany. We were there longer than countless other Germans but were never "Germans". Who wants to go back to a country where your ancestors were marched through death camps. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice... So far U.S.A. is largely good and so is Israel. I wouldn't ever consider Canada, France, England, or even Australia. Hell no to Poland, Germany, Spain and all former Soviet States.

[@satoshibitcoinsaki6532]

Ashkenazi Jews are returning to German by the boatload. Look it up if you don't believe me.

[@stephenfisher3721]

You were probably born after 1948. Your attitude is only possible for someone who knows the reality of the State of Israel. Given the thousands of years of Jewish history, the modern State of Israel is so unbelievably recent. Who knows if Israel will continue?

[@ddre8834]

Yeah me and my mom are of Spanish from the Americas. Some of us Mexicans and Cubans of Sephardic are waiting to get the word from Spain. I’ll be back in Spain to visit May24

[@ayubsulastin1608]

I know some of the history, how the Jews get to that land ? In 712 BC they went there with Tariq Bin Ziad to invade the Christians and another guy from Burber Musa Bin Naseer tribe , they together punched the Christians, and Christians struggled about 8 centuries against Muslins and Jews, in 1492, the Catholic gained the power and they said as a Muslim or a Jew, you can’t live on this land, that’s what happened! You should tell the whole story.

[@solvingpolitics3172]

Let’s see documentation?

[@margasa8548]

@ayubsulastin1608 what movie us that? If it is B.C. it means before Jesus. Read what you say. 712 B.C. before Jesus, there were no Christians at the time. / that is why we cannot believe what you guys say. I don't know where you get this stuff from. When Islam started, there were Jews living here in the Middle East, in what is today Israel. But the Arabs bought the farms and the good land, so life became very difficult for us, which is the same as to say that we had to leave. Or that they expelled us without kicking us out. People have to eat.

[@margasa8548]

@ayubsulastin 1608 Ah...ok....it was a spelling mistake you made, it is not B.C, but A.D. and you are talking about how Jews got to Spain. I couldn't understand. Sorry.

[@lasmith7429]

So was Columbus a converso or crypto jew?

[@Fan_Made_Videos]

Didn't Furio answer this question already?

[@micaelfigueiredo3577]

Cristóvão Colombo era Português, ele fugiu do Reino de Portugal para Espanha para escapar dos seus crimes

[@yasminmacia5045]

@@micaelfigueiredo3577portugués? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 hablaba español,y está enterrado en Sevilla

[@micaelfigueiredo3577]

@@yasminmacia5045 lamento mas era Português, o país inteiro sabe que ele era um fugitivo criminoso procurado pelo reino, por isso fugiu para Espanha, logicamente que sabia falar espanhol até porque as nossas línguas são semelhantes, levou consigo os conhecimentos náuticos que aprendeu em Portugal para Espanha e para ser aceite pela comunidade espanhola foi obrigado a explorar os mares para a coroa real espanhola

[@monkeycat48]

1:32 I remember, watching the most evil, men and women in history about Tomas De Torquemada the Spanish inquisitor general, who was responsible for advising the king and queen, to expel the Jews from Spain. Now, one of the people in the documentary went on, expressing that there’s no question about it. What happens in Spain and he being a Sephardic Jew himself stated this was a mini holocaust. Like during the expulsion, they were terrible scenes of the time like ships that would take them away with charge a large fortune for them to travel, then when they were in the middle of the sea, they were just kill and them overboard. In the final days of the expulsion, there were reports that mass murder of any Jew that was still remaining in Spain at the time started happening. There’s barely any record of mentioning that, of course the crown, despite expelling, the Jews did like try to protect them on their way out. It doesn’t really excuse what they did considering there devout favorite Dominican Monk was responsible for all the cruelty, and the reasons why they suffered. But this was a mini holocaust, and one example of a mini holocaust finally is those who remain in Spain converted they were made sure they were. The sad part of this mini holocaust is that there’s no like definitive record of the final like results of massacres you name it we seem to forget about something like this that happened over 531 years ago. This happened now when it comes to Spain and Portugal, trying their best to show the world. They have changed that they’re more tolerant now than ever that may seem fine, but that’s still is a lot to take in. You can offer free citizenship all you want you can promise things will be better, but yeah it’s gonna be a tough process. Even to those who somehow I want to be citizens of Spain for free without anything if they can prove backgrounds and whatever it’s still a lot to take in. The interesting part about the inquisition when it was finally dissolved in the 1830s later on. There was some evidence proving that some Jews were establishing communities again, even after World War II the holocaust.

[@cheryldeboissiere1851]

One should watch “Wrath of God” with Christopher Lambert as a medieval sheriff investigating a string of death, he finds out the victims were all Secret Jews blackmailing other Catholics who do not know they are of Jewish ancestry. Some people do not understand the end of this movie, sad to say. I will just say definitely worth watching.

[@MaverickLSC]

It's also called "Day of Wrath"

[@demiansolis]

Good video, although because of its short duration left many key points out. Jews in Middle Age Spain didn't live in ghettos, like Poland. Juderias were not ghettos but Jewish. communities. Jews were allowed to go out of the Juderias whenever they wanted. They were not full citizens but they had some rights granted by the Crown of Castille. Queen Isabel had the Jews in high esteem. Many practicing Jews held high posts in the kingdom's administration and were doctors to the Queen. Yeah, she signed the decree of expulsion, but historians claim she did it under big pressure by the Pope and her own husband, King Ferdinand. The Jews were expelled from Spain not beacuade they were Jews, but because they were different from the Christians. The Muslims were expelled too, in 1608 and Protestants were not allowed into Spain. I mean, the Spanish Jews were expelled by a totalitarian regime that tried to unified Spain by force and by religion. It's very easy to make the mistake to think that the Spanish Inquisition was exactly the same as the Nazi regime, but that is inaccurate. By the way, the Muslims now are complaining that neither Spain nor Portugal have offered Spanish and Portuguese citizenship to to the descendants of the Muslims expelled from Spain in 1608. It would be watch a video about the Sephardic legacy in the Americas. In Mexico there's the most ancient mikve ever found in this continent. The first book written by a Jewish author can be found in Mexico, too.

[@nour-eddineeljouak6108]

very interesting , however you forgotten to mention the inquisition and expulsion of the Muslims as well, whom lived and co-exist along side with Jews in harmony and peace for more than 800 years under the Moros rulers, We shall always remember that We All Sons Of Abraham … luv 2 u all ❤ and Peace

[@lawren7615]

Being Jewish but not Sephardic I knew of the Misery of Spanish Jews but not the Centuries of Torture. Amazing there are any left. Power to my brothers and sisters!!!

[@MegaSreis]

There are millions of descendants of Anousim both in Portugal, Spain and Latin America. Also in India, Malaysia and Indonesia. Around 30% of the Portuguese men have Sephardic ancestry. The Inquisition didn't kill us. We're still here and many of us are returning to the faith and culture of our ancestors.

[@cmd7930]

It was deserved

[@margasa8548]

Am Israel Hai!

[@anniescorfano]

@@MegaSreis many Hispanics still have that Sephardic dna in us. It’s even visible when you just clearly look at our features

[@BernardRandsMusic]

According to my DNA there are footprints showing ancestors in Granada and Portugal and then West Coast of Africa. Here I am in the Carolina’s. Trans Atlantic Slave trade was a beast. The parts of history kept from the masses.

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

In Iberia , 1492, the Jews were allowed to keep their possessions. Article 3 of the conditions of Expulsion (In Spanish) Se daba un plazo de cuatro meses -que después se ampliará diez días más, hasta el 10 de agosto- para que salieran de los dominios de los reyes. Los que no lo hicieran dentro de ese plazo o volvieran después serían castigados con la pena de muerte y la confiscación de sus bienes. Asimismo los que auxiliaran a los judíos o los ocultaran se exponían a perder «todos sus bienes, vasallos y fortalezas y otros heredamientos».

[@seriouslyiknowhowtoread]

Interesting enough on this video, no christian is trying to say anything. No convert to Jesus bla bla bla...

[@loganbrown3565]

The "tax collectors and financial advisors" 👀

[@hglundahl]

4:44 I would _not_ agree that all Conversos were Anusim. The two Torquemadas, the Cardinal and his nephew the Dominican, were both in fact of Converso ancestry. The former stopped a pogrom.

[@hglundahl]

St. Teresa of Ávila and one of the first followers of St. Ignatius of Loyola were also of Converso ancestry.

[@stephenfisher3721]

The terminology changes over time. When I was growing up these Spanish Jews living outwardly as Catholics were called marranos. We did not know the terms anusim or conversos. Also whether someone believed or not is tricky. We have no right to judge others placed under life threatening conditions. Neighbors turned in to the Inquisition those using olive oil instead of pig lard or sweeping the house on Friday afternoon. Many burned alive at the auto da fe were sincere coverts to Christianity but were accused of some Jewish practice. Had today's Messianic Jews been in Spain they would have all been put to death. The wickedness, perverseness, and hypocrisy of the Christians caused some of the New Christians to detest their new faith. It divided families and cut across generations.

[@hglundahl]

@@stephenfisher3721 _"Many burned alive at the auto da fe were sincere coverts to Christianity but were accused of some Jewish practice."_ I do not think that is true. I think that's a legend among crypto-Jews perhaps and among Sepharads certainly, but I do not think that's true.

[@user-jh3xl2xk3i]

I'm Mexican mixed with Spaniard & native American with a Spaniard last name & I am very curious if I have some Jewish in me. My grandpa's last name was Martinez & my last name is Anguiano. My Mexican grandma's last name is Jalomo.

[@SharonsRose13]

My mom's side is Sephardic Moroccan Jewish and Sephardic Hungarian Jewish with Swiss and other mix. Part came in 1600's, part in 1800's. My dad's side is Cherokee - french and Irish , we have been here for thousands of years and also since 1600's, 1700's. Good to hear the history. Catholic was shoved on my Irish people In 5th century by romans. Then my native American people when the European people arrived. Raised secular. Reconnected to my Jewish heritage when I was 22yrs. When I started learned, I realized we were being kept Jewish but not holidays.

[@SDguy3030]

A bunch of stolen history, and stolen genes. I never understand why yall want to act the part, but still call yourself jewish.

[@MrSpadeofAce]

I recently read about my family history on a genealogy website, it states, that one of my Jewish ancestors on my mom side was burned at the stake, for being jewish. at the time of the inquisition , the rest of my Sephardic ancestors had to flee to other countries. very sad to read about one of my ancestors , he died in a horrible way :( . Their surname was Levi/Maduro , it says on the site that another of my Jewish ancestor was the treasurer of a Spanish King in the 1300's , his name was Samuel Ha Levi.Abulafia my Jewish ancestors/family goes all the way back to the time of Moses.

[@skontheroad]

So you are a Levi! That's a big deal in the Jewish religion! The Levi's still today wash the Kohanin before they pray (duchen) at the alter (bima) of the temple (synagogue). Levi's are very important and get called up after the Kohanim (Kings), and before the rest of the Israelites. I don't know if it is all the way thru your mother's line--Judaism is a matriarchal religion--which makes you a Jew! Or if the connection is thru your fathers line. But a Levi is a big deal!!

[@MrSpadeofAce]

@@skontheroad yes the Tribe is called, the "Tribe of Levi ", one of the 12 tribes of Israel👍 This on my mothers side

[@sr2291]

They believed that Judiaism was witchcraft. It was shocking to me to see the Inquisition records that say Crime: Judiaism.

[@palmtreez2506]

Can I have the genealogy website please :)

[@dariusdavisobadiyahu6121]

This is interesting as I am hebrew, not many Brews know this truth

[@coisasdewookie8668]

I am a portuguese jew, and I can say that the portuguese are so kind with us!

[@UNPACKED]

Great! You might like our new Portuguese channel: www.youtube.com/@Unpacked_PT/videos

[@amram1305]

Thats why it was you who they decimated tweety.