Neither the Jews’s religion nor their DNA traces back to the OT Israelites, but rather to the Phoenicians/Carthaginians. Genetically and historically, these Phoenicians/Carthaginians are the descendants of the Canaanites that the Hebrews displaced and drove north from the area of Jerusalem.
In fact the Phoenicians/Carthaginians were Israelites’ enemies.
Neither the Jews’s religion nor their DNA traces back to the OT Israelites, but rather to the Phoenicians/Carthaginians. Genetically and historically, these Phoenicians/Carthaginians are the descendants of the Canaanites that the Hebrews displaced and drove north from the area of Jerusalem.
In fact the Phoenicians/Carthaginians were Israelites’ enemies.