The earth under tyrants has always been bloody and all of the men named were anti semitic indeed! It seems the peoples who hate God and His Christ also have the general inclination of blaming the Jewish nation of Israel for the crimes of the bloody Islamic terrorists who seek to destroy the only Jewish nation of the earth. But God will defend them from the final antichrist yet to come during the tribulation. God will reign over the earth from Israel in the person of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. All His enemies will be vanquished, and all His enemies hate Israel without a cause.
So, if he wasn't the Antichrist, what's the point of the rest of the story?