Miguel Serrano on Julius Evola's racism
In 1492, Jews had been banned from Spain and, in 1496, from Portugal, where many of them had found refuge and whence many then left for the United Provinces of the Netherlands, some of them settling later in England. Within the next two centuries, the four main colonial were : England, Holland, Portugal, and Spain.

"Tradition has it that the first man to sight America was a Jewish sailor on board one of Columbus' vessels. It is true that the same qualification might here again be entered ; the Jews were more often navigators in the theoretical than in the practical sense. A Jewish astronomer prepared nautical tables or invented nautical instruments, a Jewish financier would pay for building a ship to use them, but the crew would only contain a straggling Jewish sailor or two. Yet these generalizations are very precarious. The Jews of Spain not only fitted out fleets in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, but they displayed their patriotic zeal personally as well as scientifically and financially. 1 Jayme III, the last king of Mallorca, testifies in 1334 that Juceff Faquin, a Jew of Barcelona, had navigated the whole of the then known world In the Portuguese Armada, which captured Mauritania in 1415, there were many Jews. (...) It is no exaggeration to assert that but for Jewish encouragement Columbus would never have sailed. The Jews were noted map-drawers, cartography in the fifteenth century being almost entirely in the hands of the Mallorcan Jews. Jafuda Cresques was called the 'Map-Jew,' just as his friend Moses Rimos was popularly known as the 'parchment-maker. Besides cosmography Jews were proficient in the manufacture of nautical instruments, and it is commonly asserted that the Portuguese Jews deserve a large share of praise for the most important medieval improvements.

Vasco de Gama was materially aided on his voyages by Jewish pilots and navigators. Another Jew was the constant companion and most intimate friend of another noted Portuguese admiral, Alfonso d' Albuquerque. Evidence is indeed accumulating to prove that the Jews were personally concerned in most of the great exploring enterprises in the middle ages." books.google.co.uk/books?id=NGgYUNza7AsC&pg=PA232&lpg=PA232&dq=%22jewish+life+in+the+middle+ages%22+vasco+de+gama&source=bl&ots=DfU92_RMwJ&sig=UQBCSqAO_SCNdzIL19BQnPeBUys&hl=en&ei=GxjnSZfHDIHT-AalkLXdBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 Whether Colombus was Jewish or not, the fact is that his backers were all Jews (http://maranathachapel.org/about/ray/articles/was_christopher_columbus_jewis.html) : "It was January of 1492. Christopher Columbus, after years of following the Spanish Court, had departed Granada after what he understood was the final rejection by the King and Queen of his proposal to sail west to reach the East. Into this seemingly lost situation appeared a courageous and articulate man named Lluís de Santàngel. In what must have been an extraordinary speech which lasted only minutes, Santàngel convinced Queen Isabella to change her mind and to accept Columbus's voyage, which Santàngel then made possible by underwriting it with his own funds.
Columbus and Santàngel are forever linked with the history of Spain and America. In spite of his far-reaching contributions, however, Lluís de Santàngel remains largely unknown and unappreciated outside of Spain. Santàngel, who would become King Ferdinand's indispensable Comptroller General and Advisor, was born into a prominent family of Jewish ancestry in the city of Valencia of the second half of the fifteenth century, a flourishing economic, political, scientific, cultural and educational center. This Valencian courtier, whose decisive action and personal funding saved Columbus's enterprise for Spain and literally altered the course of history, deserves the title of America's first financier." 74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:xPJEHchhlzsJ:www.americaisrael.org/docs/Santangel%2520round%2520table%2520discussion.pdf+%22discovery+of+america%22+jews&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

See also "Christopher Columbus and the Participation of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese discoveries" (http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CQ9gxkGlZ9sC&dq=%22discoveries%22+jews&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=e0HZa5jZm4&sig=hTAW5tKxJg248haDvLuK2NLkeTI&hl=en&ei=kEbmSYfkJIPO-AadtOCACQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3)

French kings, up to Louis XII, took no interest whatsoever in worldwide colonisation, limiting themselves to Mediterranean conquests. Francois I is the first French king to have showed some interest in it. Later, Henri III took a vague interest in it. Colbert, and its 'Compagnie francaise des Indes orientales', rather than Louis XIV, is the first to have taken a genuine interest in it ; even though, for Colbert himself, the development of colonies could not prevail upon that of France. Likewise, under Louis XIII, colonies had been Richelieu's 'thing' (he was the founder and the manager of the 'Compagnie d'Orient'), rather than the king's.

"Despite the small population, however, Champlain's task at Quebec was difficult and exacting. His sponsors in France had no interest in the permanent upbuilding of the colony; they sent out very few settlers, and gave him little in the way of funds. The traders who came to the St. Lawrence each summer were an unruly and boisterous crew who quarreled with the Indians and among themselves. At times, indeed, Champlain was sorely tempted to throw up the undertaking in disgust. But his patience held out until 1627, when the rise of Richelieu in France put the affairs of the colony upon a new and more active basis. For a quarter of a century, France had been letting golden opportunities slip by while the colonies and trade of her rivals were forging ahead. Spain and Portugal were secure in the South. England had gained firm footholds both in Virginia and on Massachusetts Bay. Even Holland had a strong commercial company in the field."

French aristocrats, in this respect, were thus along the same wavelength as their Indo-Europeans ancestors, from the Aryans to the ancient Romans and the Vikings. The Aryans, whatever the reasons for their sudden migration, settled in the Indian peninsula and remained there, without trying to conquer any other part of Asia ; Rome, leaving aside England and Gaul, never extended and never intended or planned to extend its conquests beyond the areas surrounding the Mediterranean. Vikings, whose presence on what was to be called later the American continent is attested in the early Middle-Ages, do not seem to have attempted to conquer it. Except, to some extent, entreprises like Alexander's and Julianus', whether on the spiritual plane or on the material one, the awareness of limits and, therefore, of form, characterise peoples of Indo-European stock.

In view of these brief historical reminders, it is thus easy to realise how simplistic and reductive it is to ascribe generically to Westerners, as so many - to use Yockey's apt term - concious or unconscious culture distorters do, an essential role in worldwide colonisation. Once again, this belief is based on the widespread and cleverly maintained confusion between spirit and geography : colonialism did originate in the West and, more precisely, in Europe ; however, strong evidence suggest that the very concept of worldwide colonialism, far from originating in the European spirit, germinated in the brains of a people of non European stock who had settled earlier on the European continent and who, after having been able to deceive some weak members of the local aristocracy, used and, so to speak, cannibalised them to reach their colonial goals.

M. Serrano is right in stating that "J. Evola did not recognize the great Marranic problem". He only failed to acknowledge why J. Evola did not recognise it. Clearly, "If one only looks once at the
face of Olof Palme, the former Swedish prime minister, one will immediately know to which race he belongs. That is certainly not a descendant of the Vikings. And that which is the case with the leaders in control of the Scandinavian world and the Netherlands can also be applied to England." : clearly, many current Dutch political schemers, including the philosemite self-proclaimed half-Jew Wilders and the current Jewish mayor of Amsterdam, no matter how blond-haired and blue-eyed, can hardly be regarded as Aryan from a physical standpoint. However, J. Evola never made a racial inquiry into the Scandinavian and Dutch leading class of his time ; it is the Dutch and the Scandinavians as a whole that he scanned racially, and that racial scan leaves no doubt, still today, as to the aryanity of many Dutch and of many Scandinavians with respect to the race of the body.

A few years ago, we joined a web-group led by someone claiming to be a relative of M. Serrano and soon realised that it was a waste of time and of energy to discuss racial matters with the vast majority of its Sancho panza-like members ; anyway, most of our posts, including texts by J. Evola on race, were simply ignored.