Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: an irreconcilable claim

One can only wonder at the claim "'Simon,' a descendant of Spain's medieval Marranos who submitted to baptism to escape the Inquisition,..." Since only baptized Christians were subject to the Inquisition, one is hard-pressed to imagine how being baptized would constitute an "escape" from the Inquisition, itelf greatly exaggerated as the Black Legend.