British historian Cecil Roth is another one of these apologists for the British Empire, who is of course, now also an apologist for the other European Imperialists, who profitted so greatly from theexploitation, mass murder , displacement, and enslavement of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, but now this British Zionist is rewriting the blood soaked legacy of Christopher Columbus as "Columbus Philanthropist & Gentle Soul", that's right folks, he is now claiming that Columbus was not a Genocidal, power trippin', racist Imperialist, but a philanthropist who gave his money to the poor, and was really a swell chap. Roth's theory is that Columbus wasn't a servant of the Crown of Spain and the main protagonist, and man that began the grim history of centuries of Conquistador-inspired genocide, slavery, mass murder, and the displacement of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, no, claims this British historian, he was really Jewish and just wanted to establish a Jewish homeland in the Americas so the Jews could escape the anti-semitism of Europe.
Now the anti-semitism and pogroms of Europe are well established, so I am not discounting those historical facts, however, these pogroms closely resemble Columbus' own treatment of the "Indians" that he encountered and I seriously do not believe in Cecil Roth's revisionism, and if you do your homework, you will discover that Columbus, , whether or not he was actually Jewish, was far from a "swell chap" or "philanthropist", and whom kept a detailed journal of his travels to the Americas, where he routinely talks about cutting off the ears of the natives, having them flogged and killed, and so forth, for "crimes" such as "stealing" a piece of fruit. Now, how the natives could actually be "stealing" the fruit that was the natural produce of their native home, well, only a British historian or racist revisionist could really come to such an unsound conclusion. Worse than that, a school of "thought" is now is pushing this idea that Columbus couldn't have been that bad because he "might have been a Jew". Only the dim witted could really go along with such garbage. It's an insult to any intelligent scholar and even more so of an insult to all of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, raped, murdered, and enslaved by the Columbus and his ilk, and the Conquistadors, that followed in his foot steps. And a man is responsible for his deeds, no matter what religion he subscribes to.
I will conclude with some details of what it was like to live as an indigenous person, when Columbus and his brothers governed Santo Domingo,, from Giles Tremlett' s "Lost document reveals Columbus as tyrant of the Caribbean" :
"Christopher Columbus, the man credited with discovering the Americas, was a greedy and vindictive tyrant who saved some of his most violent punishments for his own followers, according to a document uncovered by Spanish historians.
As governor and viceroy of the Indies, Columbus imposed iron discipline on the first Spanish colony in the Americas, in what is now the Caribbean country of Dominican Republic. Punishments included cutting off people's ears and noses, parading women naked through the streets and selling them into slavery.
"Columbus' government was characterised by a form of tyranny," Consuelo Varela, a Spanish historian who has seen the document, told journalists.
One man caught stealing corn had his nose and ears cut off, was placed in shackles and was then auctioned off as a slave. A woman who dared to suggest that Columbus was of lowly birth was punished by his brother Bartolomé, who had also travelled to the Caribbean. She was stripped naked and paraded around the colony on the back of a mule.
"Bartolomé ordered that her tongue be cut out," said Ms Varela. "Christopher congratulated him for defending the family."
"The document also describes how Columbus put down native unrest and revolt; he first ordered a brutal crackdown in which many natives were killed and then paraded their dismembered bodies through the streets in an attempt to discourage further rebellion." ("Columbus Controversy", A&E Television Networks, August 12, 2013)
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