Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter
"Before everyone jumps one me - yes, culture isn’t DNA. But to be Puerto Rican is to be the descendant of: African Moors + slaves, Taino Indians, Spanish colonizers, Jewish refugees, and likely others. We are all of these things and something else all at once - we are Boricua."
all true butterfly-----but the jews who migrated to
Puerto Rica were of the SEPHARDIC variety-----
there are no more isolationist persons than are
they. Ezra did it to them. It has become a kind of
fashion for south American Hispanic people to claim
jewish background. Keep in mind---da jooos who went
to south America were trying to escape the INQUISITION--
thus they were very insular
You should have read the OP link:
"[My family has] been doing a lot of family trees in the last couple of years," Ocasio-Cortez said. "And one of the things a lot of people don’t know about Puerto Rico, and something we discovered ourselves, is that a long time ago, many generations ago, my family consisted of Sephardic Jews."
"The story goes that during the Spanish Inquisition, Jews were forced, on the exterior, to convert to Catholicism, but on the interior, they continued to be who they were, continued to practice their faith," Ocasio-Cortez said. "A strong group of people, who wanted to continue living life the way they wanted to live it, decided to get on a boat and leave Spain. Some of these people ended up in Puerto Rico."