*jaw drops* Oh my goodness, and I thought I'd already seen the pits of irrationality people can sink to. The wild beliefs required to sustain hatred are really something else. I agree with you the so-called reasons are just a rickety structure designed to uphold mostly subconscious hatred. I can't believe how much you know about the hatred of your people (the distinction between religious and racialized antisemitism was never clear in my mind before), but I guess it was necessary.

Many of them settled in modern day New Mexico, and a substantial percentage of the Latin@ population of New Mexico is of Sephardi Jewish descent.

I did not know this! Fascinating. But then again this is the same NM with all the swastikas, so sadface.