The problem is one of identifying the Lost Tribes. I haven't been to the British Museum in years.
If there is a group of Jewish people wanting to exclude everyone among the Israelites but tribe Judah from the Promises Of God as laid forth in the Abrahamic Covenant, they're on the fringe and their numbers are miniscule. The Falasha Jews of Ethiopia have been identified with Tribe Dan; Israeli Rabbis ruled in their favor and they were airlifted into Israel in 1991. They live as Israelis among the Jewish people today, and the Israeli government and an overwhelming majority of the Jewish people in Israel consider them to be bona fide Israelites and inheritors of God's promises to Israel.
Now: On the other hand, there's a growing number of people of Celtic origin clamoring for recognition as descendents of Jacob (most of whom claim to be descendents of Joseph), and the loudest and largest number among them disavow the modern-day Israelis' descendence from Jacob.
These cultists claim to be the true inheritors of God's promises and believe the modern-day Israelis are squatters on land they have no right to occupy.
This of course aligns them politically (whether they know it or not) with the Palestinian cause, and the arguments of Lost Tribalism constitute an apologetic for anti-semitism among those cultists who deny that the modern-day Jews are descended from Judah.
Lost Tribe theory is at the heart of much of the anti-semitism that exists in the world. That isn't to suggest that everyone espousing Lost Tribe theory is "anti-modern day Israeli," but if you run searches on the subject the results are overwhelmingly in that vein.
> Lost Tribe theory is at the heart of much of the anti-semitism that exists in the world
I really doubt that. I would suggest that Jews own behaviour over the millenia is the 100% cause of Jewish anti-Semitism today. If you don't believe that, just read your own posts to this thread, then think about it. What you sow is what you reap. (And no, I'm not going to answer a bunch of "who me?" type questions like you lay on others in this thread. Either you get it, or you don't.)
If there is a group of Jewish people wanting to exclude everyone among the Israelites but tribe Judah from the Promises Of God as laid forth in the Abrahamic Covenant, they're on the fringe and their numbers are miniscule. As are the people that think the Jews are the spawn of the devil.
Now: On the other hand, there's a growing number of people of Celtic origin clamoring for recognition as descendents of Jacob (most of whom claim to be descendents of Joseph), and the loudest and largest number among them disavow the modern-day Israelis' descendence from Jacob.
I would say that's their problem. I figure their eventual fate is up to them and the choices they make out of base motivations, and the spiritual laws those acts trigger (like cast your bread upon the waters. . . and as you sow, so shall you reap.)
These cultists claim to be the true inheritors of God's promises and believe the modern-day Israelis are squatters on land they have no right to occupy.
This of course aligns them politically (whether they know it or not) with the Palestinian cause, and the arguments of Lost Tribalism constitute an apologetic for anti-semitism among those cultists who deny that the modern-day Jews are descended from Judah.
Lost Tribe theory is at the heart of much of the anti-semitism that exists in the world. That isn't to suggest that everyone espousing Lost Tribe theory is "anti-modern day Israeli," but if you run searches on the subject the results are overwhelmingly in that vein.
I'd say that was the problem of those who are threatened by these groups. They aren't as saturated with members as you probably are afraid of. Unless you react to everybody whose thinking is based on the same data as in one of those groups. Hatred of Jews no more naturally follows from that data than hatred of your neighbor because he lives in a different House in the same community.
I reckon you've noticed that every set of data on any topic has it's sect of nutcases that take them to absurd conclusions? If the data are historically based and verifiable, and the inferences drawn from the data are logical and reasonable, the use of the data by idiots with a specific axe to grind isn't the data's fault.
It can't be an option to shoot the good with the nasties. None of us have the authority to judge such a thing. We're only human beings. We have to distinguish between the nasties and the goodies. Discernment is a spiritual gift that the Lord gave to everybody. In my opinion, it developes with use.
