Spaniards; Jewish self-haters?

[Anglojew]

Various studies show that around 20% of Spaniards or a "fifth of all the male lineages of modern Spain are of Jewish origin" (and another 10% Moorish) but many Spaniards hate Jews as a legacy of the Inquisition.

Given that such a large number of Spaniards are of Jewish origin does this beg multiple questions such as, "Are Spaniards Jewish self-haters?"

Are they such sincere Judeophobes as a consequence of the religious zealotry of the Inquisition or a subconscious paranoid overreaction to put people off the secret Jewish roots they are unfortunately embarrassed by (with good reason given it was a capital crime to be a Jew in Spain for many hundreds of years)? Given that many of the people behind the Inquisition were in fact Jewish converso's ("new Catholics," eg Jewish converts to Catholicism to escape the Inquistion) themselves, such as the infamous Tomás de Torquemada, this is not a new development.

Is the only solution to overcome this historical, cultural and ethnic anomaly that Spaniards of Jewish origin re-embrace Judaism? Given their obsession with Jews (driven by their secret Jewish identity) is it in fact inevitable that they will one day come back into the Jewish fold just like thousands of other Crypto-Jews of Sephardi origin have in recent years.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7...d-the-key.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/wo....18411385.html

[American_Hispanist]

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[Anglojew]

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Did you do a generic test? Are you Jewish?

[SilverKnight]

You don't get it right??

Non of the Spaniards in 23andme I have added have Jewish nor Arab, they are 100% Iberian, celto- Iberian (European)... Yes I have some Jewish but it's not ancient admixture..

[American_Hispanist]

Did you do a generic test? Are you Jewish?

I am going to do a genetic test. I have the money appropriated. All I need to do is to get the cash into my bank account and then I'll order my 23andMe kit. but based on records, I might have Sephardi Jewish ancestry.

[Annihilus]

Your links are a bit outdated, but even so. I have a problem with labeling dna (mtdna in this case) with a religion.

[Tages]

That's ridiculous. Spaniards are constantly taking shit for being 'not European enough'. Spaniards aren't Jews, even if a minority have Jewish ancestry then they are still not Jews, they have been disconnected from Jewish culture for centuries. They certainly aren't self-hating Jews, that's just bullshit.

[Damião de Góis]

Those studies considered haplogroup J to be jewish. If that's true, then a large part of Europe is jewish

[Lábaru]

Those studies considered haplogroup J to be jewish. If that's true, then a large part of Europe is jewish

[Slycooper]

Spaniards are not jewish. They expelled the Jews. Some may have some converso blood far back but in general no.