One thing most people miss is that the Israelites or Nation of Israel in the Old Testament is not the same as the modern country of Israel. When the Israelites were taken to Babylon, only a few from two tribes came back home afterwards. The rest were scattered. Their descendants, for the most part, have no idea that their ancestors were the Israelites.

Based on random DNA checks, most of the "Jews" in Israel aren't even Semitic. As a side note, my male line Y-DNA goes back eventually to central Asia hundreds of years ago.

Also, I wish they would get rid of the word "antisemitic." Jews aren't the only Semitic people in the world. Not by a long shot. Arabs are too, as well as Asians and American Indians. They are all descended from Shem.