Context: When Spain expelled all the innocent Jewish people of their kingdom, many of the exiled Jews became pirates allied with the Barbery states and helped to launch raids against Spanish shipping, often times selling Spaniards into Slavery in Ottoman markets.
TheLocalMusketeer on
Kidnapping and selling people into slavery is not a good way of improving your reputation. Someone who would do that probably wasn’t too innocent to begin with.
TheHistoryMaster2520 on
Many Jews also joined the ranks of conquistadors in the New World
Dmannmann on
Mfs when they say Muslims have historically hated Jews.
soothed-ape on
Jews were further ahead culturally than Christians in Europe at the time. Expelling them was setting these states back culturally. It’s hardly like nationalism was thriving when Spain expelled the Jews also
Hispanoamericano2000 on
Hey, it’s not like the expulsion of Jews from Spain was the first time a European state did something like that (i.e., something unusual for the time), and it’s far from being the last time Europe saw something like that (and I’m not saying this to minimize it neither to try to claim that it was something that was “good” or “positive” in any way).
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Context: When Spain expelled all the innocent Jewish people of their kingdom, many of the exiled Jews became pirates allied with the Barbery states and helped to launch raids against Spanish shipping, often times selling Spaniards into Slavery in Ottoman markets.
Kidnapping and selling people into slavery is not a good way of improving your reputation. Someone who would do that probably wasn’t too innocent to begin with.
Many Jews also joined the ranks of conquistadors in the New World
Mfs when they say Muslims have historically hated Jews.
Jews were further ahead culturally than Christians in Europe at the time. Expelling them was setting these states back culturally. It’s hardly like nationalism was thriving when Spain expelled the Jews also
Hey, it’s not like the expulsion of Jews from Spain was the first time a European state did something like that (i.e., something unusual for the time), and it’s far from being the last time Europe saw something like that (and I’m not saying this to minimize it neither to try to claim that it was something that was “good” or “positive” in any way).