- Did you know that there is a myth that Columbus was himself a secret Jew? I hope not, since Columbus treatment of the people he found led to their slavery and extinction.
- Of course if he were a Jew, undoubtably he would be called a Christ killer …. the usual allusion to Jews as guilty of deicide.
- On the other hand, Christ Killer can also be used as an anti-Italian slur on the basis that Romans, as ancestors of the present-day Italians, executed Jesus.
I prefer the latter definition. As the only Jewish kids in a strictly Catholic neighborhood, my brother sister and I were all called Christ Killer because the nuns taught that we the Jews had killed their God.