{"id":114317,"date":"2024-10-15T06:45:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T23:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=114317"},"modified":"2024-10-15T06:45:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T23:45:47","slug":"nyc-columbus-day-parade-goers-get-saucy-over-new-claim-that-explorer-was-jewish-not-italian-we-dont-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=114317","title":{"rendered":"NYC Columbus Day parade goers get saucy over new claim that explorer was Jewish, not Italian: &#8216;We don&#8217;t care&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Christopher Columbus wasn\u2019t actually Italian? Paesan-NO.<\/p>\n<p>Italian Americans and Columbus Day parade goers Monday saucily waved off the claim that new DNA evidence shows the controversial <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/13\/world-news\/columbus-was-a-sephardic-jew-from-western-europe-study-finds\/\">explorer was a Sephardic Jew<\/a>, likely from Spain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t care,\u201d said Cherie Corso, who attended the Manhattan parade with an Italian flag wrapped around her neck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s always going to be Italian.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Columbus Day Parade goers saucily waved off a study that found the explorer was Jewish. <span class=\"credit\">Matthew McDermott<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Corso wasn\u2019t the only one who cut up the new claims as if they were a cold antipasto.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Everyone from the mayor of Genoa to Italian-American heritage groups agreed: they don\u2019t care what the DNA says, Columbus was as Italian as spaghetti.<\/p>\n<p>The debate began with a new study that bucked the widely, but not universally, held theory that Columbus hailed from Genoa, an independent republic on Italy\u2019s northwest coast, before he sailed on behalf of Spain in 1492 and \u201cdiscovered\u201d the New World.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish researchers pulled DNA from\u00a0bones of Columbus\u2019 corpse that indicated he had Sephardic heritage, hinting he was born in Spain and either concealed his Jewish identity or converted to Catholicism to avoid religious persecution, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ckg2049ezpko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to the BBC.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The Columbus Day parade drew thousands. <span class=\"credit\">James Messerschmidt<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Recent DNA evidence hints Columbus was of Sephardic Jewish heritage, likely from Spain, researchers said. <span class=\"credit\">James Messerschmidt<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But attendees at the Columbus Day parade, where thousands draped themselves in Italian flag colors while dancing, flag waving and marching along Fifth Avenue, didn\u2019t seem to care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would not matter to me, as long as we celebrate,\u201d said Diane di Stazzio, who marched with a giant Italian flag. \u201cBecause, I mean, if he\u2019s Jewish, that\u2019s great, but he\u2019s still an Italian. Italian Jewish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cindy Trimble, who came from Cold Spring for the parade, said she was just happy the Columbus Day parade hadn\u2019t been canceled altogether because of disputes over the explorer\u2019s brutal actions toward native Caribbeans, which include sending hundreds into slavery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a weird combination too: I am Sicilian and my mother is Swedish,\u201d she said. \u201cSo as long as we celebrate\u00a0Columbus!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Gov. Hochul waves an Italian flag as she attends the parade. <span class=\"credit\">Erik Pendzich\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>A young parade-goer was decked out in Italian colors. <span class=\"credit\">James Messerschmidt<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">James Messerschmidt<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe discovered America so he can be whatever he wants,\u201d said an Italian tourist at the parade. <\/p>\n<p>The National Italian American Foundation, which supports a Columbus Day holiday as \u201ca source of dignity and self-worth for Italian Americans,\u201d argued the genetic study isn\u2019t the whole historical story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNIAF adheres to the statement of Mayor Marco Bucci of Genoa which reads, \u2018The State Archive of Genoa preserves dozens of documents, mostly letters and notarial acts, which allow us to assert Columbus\u2019 Genoese origin and to reconstruct his entourage. 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