Spain passes law awarding citizenship to descendants of expelled Jews

[Challenger]

This is great news, another historical wrong atoned for.

Spain passes law awarding citizenship to descendants of expelled Jews World news The Guardian

 

[DarkFury]

This is great news, another historical wrong atoned for.

Spain passes law awarding citizenship to descendants of expelled Jews World news The Guardian

That is good news.

 

[Roadrunner]

This is great news, another historical wrong atoned for.

Spain passes law awarding citizenship to descendants of expelled Jews World news The Guardian

Interesting.

I have Spanish ancestry, but they weren't Jews.

I guess I don't get shit out of the deal.

 

[bodecea]

This is great news, another historical wrong atoned for.

Spain passes law awarding citizenship to descendants of expelled Jews World news The Guardian

Interesting.

 

[Jroc]

Muslims Angry Over Spanish Citizenship for Jews

• Muslims are now demanding reciprocity, demanding that the Spanish government grant automatic citizenship to millions of descendants of Muslims who were also expelled from Spain in the Middle Ages.

The Spanish government has announced that it will grant automatic citizenship to Jews of Sephardic descent, whose ancestors were expelled from Spain in 1492.

The measure has been welcomed by Jewish groups, who say the move is long overdue and that it rights a historic wrong.

But Muslim groups are now clamoring for reciprocity, and are demanding that the Spanish government grant instant citizenship to millions of descendants of Muslims who were also expelled from Spain during the Middle Ages.

Spain The Most Anti-Semitic Country in Europe

 

[Jroc]

Modern Jewish History:
The Spanish Expulsion

In the same month in which their Majesties [Ferdinand and Isabella] issued the edict that all Jews should be driven out of the kingdom and its territories, in the same month they gave me the order to undertake with sufficient men my expedition of discovery to the Indies." So begins Christopher Columbus's diary. The expulsion that Columbus refers to was so cataclysmic an event that ever since, the date 1492 has been almost as important in Jewish history as in American history. On July 30 of that year, the entire Jewish community, some 200,000 people, were expelled from Spain.

Tens of thousands of refugees died while trying to reach safety. In some instances, Spanish ship captains charged Jewish passengers exorbitant sums, then dumped them overboard in the middle of the ocean. In the last days before the expulsion, rumors spread throughout Spain that the fleeing refugees had swallowed gold and diamonds, and many Jews were knifed to death by brigands hoping to find treasures in their stomachs.

The Jews' expulsion had been the pet project of the Spanish Inquisition, headed by Father Tomas de Torquemada. Torquemada believed that as long as the Jews remained in Spain, they would influence the tens of thousands of recent Jewish converts to Christianity to continue practicing Judaism. Ferdinand and Isabella rejected Torquemada's demand that the Jews be expelled until January 1492, when the Spanish Army defeated Muslim forces in Granada, thereby restoring the whole of Spain to Christian rule. With their most important project, the country's unification, accomplished, the king and queen concluded that the Jews were expendable. On March 30, they issued the expulsion decree, the order to take effect in precisely four months. The short time span was a great boon to the rest of Spain, as the Jews were forced to liquidate their homes and businesses at absurdly low prices. Throughout those frantic months, Dominican priests actively encouraged Jews to convert to Christianity and thereby gain salvation both in this world and the next.

The Spanish Expulsion 1492 Jewish Virtual Library

 

[Challenger]

Muslims Angry Over Spanish Citizenship for Jews

• Muslims are now demanding reciprocity, demanding that the Spanish government grant automatic citizenship to millions of descendants of Muslims who were also expelled from Spain in the Middle Ages.

The Spanish government has announced that it will grant automatic citizenship to Jews of Sephardic descent, whose ancestors were expelled from Spain in 1492.

The measure has been welcomed by Jewish groups, who say the move is long overdue and that it rights a historic wrong.

But Muslim groups are now clamoring for reciprocity, and are demanding that the Spanish government grant instant citizenship to millions of descendants of Muslims who were also expelled from Spain during the Middle Ages.

Spain The Most Anti-Semitic Country in Europe

Seems a lot can change in 4 years. Your article is out of date it seems.

 

[Jroc]

Muslims Angry Over Spanish Citizenship for Jews

• Muslims are now demanding reciprocity, demanding that the Spanish government grant automatic citizenship to millions of descendants of Muslims who were also expelled from Spain in the Middle Ages.

The Spanish government has announced that it will grant automatic citizenship to Jews of Sephardic descent, whose ancestors were expelled from Spain in 1492.

The measure has been welcomed by Jewish groups, who say the move is long overdue and that it rights a historic wrong.

But Muslim groups are now clamoring for reciprocity, and are demanding that the Spanish government grant instant citizenship to millions of descendants of Muslims who were also expelled from Spain during the Middle Ages.

Spain The Most Anti-Semitic Country in Europe

Seems a lot can change in 4 years. Your article is out of date it seems.

So muslims aren't angry anymore?

 

[Steinlight]

Muslims Angry Over Spanish Citizenship for Jews

• Muslims are now demanding reciprocity, demanding that the Spanish government grant automatic citizenship to millions of descendants of Muslims who were also expelled from Spain in the Middle Ages.

The Spanish government has announced that it will grant automatic citizenship to Jews of Sephardic descent, whose ancestors were expelled from Spain in 1492.

The measure has been welcomed by Jewish groups, who say the move is long overdue and that it rights a historic wrong.

But Muslim groups are now clamoring for reciprocity, and are demanding that the Spanish government grant instant citizenship to millions of descendants of Muslims who were also expelled from Spain during the Middle Ages.

Spain The Most Anti-Semitic Country in Europe

Seems a lot can change in 4 years. Your article is out of date it seems.

So muslims aren't angry anymore?

Muslims were in Spain for 700 years before they were expelled, seems bigoted and racist to deny their descendants citizen while only giving it to descendants of expelled Jews.

 

[The Rabbi]

I thought it was nice symbolism but thats all it was. How do you prove something after 500 years?

 

[montelatici]

Now if the Israeli Jews would do the same thing and allow the Christians and Muslims they expelled from Palestine to return to Palestine as citizens it would be a good thing.