ADDED (APRIL 18 2015)
The source of Christian Identity and other British Israel-related race theories is actually no where in the Old Testament.
It is in the Talmud (Babylonian and Palestinian), the Rabbinical oral commentaries on the Torah that were put down into writing between the 3rd and 5th century AD.
The authoritative work, The Sages: Their Concepts,” Ephraim Urbach (Author), I. Abraham (Transl), Hebrew University Magnes Press, 1975, informs us that in the Rabbinical tradition the original sin/guilt of mankind, induced by the Serpent’s copulation with Eve (which gave birth to Cain, according to the Rabbis), was alleviated at Mount Sinai for the Israelites, but not for Gentiles.
This tradition is the source of the Rabbinical/Jewish belief in the descent of Gentiles from Cain and not, like Jews, from Adam.
Christian Identity simply reverses the two-seed theory and makes Jews the descendants of Cain.
ORIGINAL POST
British Israelism, which I believe is the best way to call all the various theories claiming that Anglo-Saxon man is tied racially to ancient Israel, is fundamentally a post-hoc justification for political supremacy, since DNA and linguistic evidence completely contradict it, and the folk derivations it points to are largely anecdotal and tenuous.
BI arose after the conquest of the New World in its earliest form, and quickly penetrated many Protestant sects, or churches close to them, like Christian Science. Mary Baker Eddy accepted it.
Although some forms of it are benign and no more than a literary hobby, some forms, such as Christian Identity, which informs some of the Patriot movement in the US, are virulently racist, both toward Jews, and toward non-whites in general.
Jews, in this account, are said to be Satan’s seed (children of Edom in the Bible) and non-whites are said to even lack a soul.
Whites on the other hands are said to descend from the Biblical Israel.
Never mind that the DNA evidence, mapped globally since about 2000, has completely disproved this.
No doubt such beliefs colored Eustace Mullins’ own writings about Federal Reserve.
One wonders how these beliefs might have colored his perception of government and money.
DNArefutesbi.com:
In 2001, Sykes went on to write the popular book The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
, which described the seven major haplogroups of European ancestors.
This book more than any other indirectly takes British Israelism to task through the Mitochondria — genetic DNA tracing through the maternal line.
After being summoned in 1997 to an archaeological site to examine the remains of a five-thousand-year-old man, Bryan Sykes ultimately was able to prove not only that the man was a European but also that he has living relatives in England today. In this lucid, absorbing account, Sykes reveals how the identification of a particular strand of DNA that passes unbroken through the maternal line allows scientists to trace our genetic makeup all the way back to prehistoric times, to seven primeval women, the Seven Daughters of Eve.
There are other problems with equating DNA of the Western Europeans with those of Israel Descent. Studies are quite definitive about paternal lines from thousands of years ago. One such study evaluated the lineage of the Aaronic Priesthood through the line of “Cohen”.
Y-chromosomal Aaron is the name given to the hypothesised most recent common ancestor of many of the patrilineal Jewish priestly caste known as Kohanim (singular “Kohen”, “Cohen”, or Kohane). In the Torah, this ancestor is identified as Aaron, the brother of Moses. The hypothetical most recent common ancestor was therefore jocularly dubbed “Y-chromosomal Aaron”, in analogy to Y-chromosomal Adam.
The original scientific research was based on the discovery that a majority of present-day Jewish Kohanim either share, or are only one step removed from, a pattern of values for 6 Y-STR markers, which researchers named the Cohen Modal Haplotype (CMH). However it subsequently became clear that this six marker pattern was widespread in many communities where men had Y chromosomes which fell into Haplogroup J; the six-marker CMH was not specific just to Cohens, nor even just to Jews, but was a survival from the origins of Haplogroup J, about 30,000 years ago.
More recent research, using a larger number of Y-STR markers to gain higher resolution more specific genetic signatures, has indicated that about half of contemporary Jewish Kohanim, who share Y-chromosomal haplogroup J1c3 (also called J-P58), do indeed appear to be very closely related. A further approximately 15% of Kohanim fall into a second distinct group, sharing a different but similarly tightly related ancestry. This second group fall under haplogroup J2a (J-M410). A number of other smaller lineage groups are also observed. Only one of these haplogroups could indicate ancestry from Aaron.
The J1e and J2a possible Cohen clusters (only one of them could indicate ancestry from Aaron), when including those tested who are of Sephardi background, have been estimated as descending from most recent common ancestors living 3,200 ± 1,100 and 4,200 ± 1,300 years ago respectively. Ashkenazis only have been estimated by the same article as descending from most recent common ancestors living 2,400 ± 800 and 3,800 ± 1,200 years ago respectively.
What is being analyzed are variations in DNA sequence called single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs, pronounced “snips” by the apparently very cute researchers who look for them). SNPs are passed down from generation to generation intact and thereby become markers of particular lineages. Those who have descended from the same ancient groups of people will share the same SNP markers. These ancestral lines have been classified into haplogroups. A haplogroup is all the haplotypes that share a single common ancestor, and these lineages can be traced back multiple thousands of years.
The two relevant lineages are haplogroup J and haplogroup R. The SNP markers of the former, J, are found most predominantly among speakers of Semitic languages in the Levant. J is the haplogroup most strongly associated with Israelite ancestry, while representatives of haplogroup R are found almost exclusively in Europe and Asia, where Indo-European languages flourished. The most recent common ancestor between haplogroups J and R is haplogroup IJK, which split off into IJ (progenitor of J) and K (progenitor of R, via K(xLT), via P) some 45,000 years ago. That’s long before the Hebrews coalesced into a discernible collection of tribes out of the Canaanite hill people from which they descended–long before there were Canaanites to descend from. The time referred to here is the Stone Age, before agriculture–before the extinction / absorption of Neanderthals. That’s how incredibly long ago these two haplogroups diverged from a common ancestor. They are about as unrelated as you can get within the same species.
Haplogroup J — that of the Jews / Israelites is nonexistent in the British Isles map of DNA Y-Chromosome distribution (see McDonald’s World Haplogroups Maps below).
The proof that DNA refutes British Israelism is given on their British Israelism Website under:
Compatibility with present-day research findings
Lack of consistency with modern genetic findings
Human genetics does not support British Israelism’s notion of a close lineal link between Jews and Western Europeans. Genetic research on the Y-chromosomes of Jews has found that Jews are closely related to other populations originating in the Middle East, such as Kurds, Turks, Armenians and Arabs, and concluded that:
Middle Eastern populations…are closely related and…their Y chromosome pool is distinct from that of Europeans. (Nebel, 2001.)
Y-DNA Haplogroups J2 and, to a lesser extent, J1 are most commonly identified in Jewish people, which is in contrast to Western Europeans. The more distant Haplogroup R1b is the most commonly identified in Europeans.”