The first person to set foot in the New World was the ancestor of the Indians.
Under their own laws, if the goyim decide something is illegal, it is clearly their right prohibit it. By European “public international law” of that era (jus gentium), Columbus was a criminal.
Hispanics regard “Columbus Day” as “Dia de la raza” (and see it as the creation of their ethnic group- which is a mixture of Spanish, Indians and Africans, with Spanish being the dominant culture. It’s mainly the American Indians who hate Columbus.
And most Spanish have Jewish ancestry. Columbus was clearly ashamed of his, and was making a point of being a very fanatic Catholic. Had he wanted to flee Spain, as a mariner, he could have done so with ease.