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Besides the year 1492 being famous for the year that Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue, it’s also famous for the beginning of the Second Diaspora. It is the year when the Sephardic Jews were expelled from Spain and found new homes throughout the world. One of those places they migrated to was with Columbus to the New World. Firstly, the Jews settled in large numbers in Portuguese-owned ...
The History of Jewish Slavery in the New World
Jun 26, 2026
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In the 1930s, a once-booming mining town called Jedway on the Canadian island of Moresby fell on hard times and quickly became a ghost town. Into this unfortunate situation came an eccentric, wealthy man named Baron Louis von Rothschild. This businessman claimed to be a part of the old, wealthy European Jewish banking family. It is not known whether he was actually a Rothschild or just a con man u...
The Potato Island Dictator
May 28, 2026
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Systemic violence committed by Jewish settlers in the West Bank against the native Palestinian Arabs started to skyrocket in the early 1980s. This outbreak of terrorism coincided with the formation of a secretive organization called “the Jewish Underground”. This group was supposedly hunted down, arrested, and rendered inactive by the Israeli authorities, but violence persisted. Following the ...
A History of Jewish Terrorism Part 3
May 03, 2026
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