[TwilightDog]

If this genetic testing actually establishes that there are some type of genetic markers identifying Levites, it should be possible to divine the location of the lost ten tribes
as the Levites are interspersed among them. I ought to have some Levite genes in me from my Jewish mother myself as supposedly there were Levites in the family.

I don't get this hysterical reaction against "British-Israelitism"--or whatever designation one wants to signify it with. It doesn't effect key doctrinal points like Christiology or soteriology, so no one is "going to Hell"
over some peripheral doctrinal point. This type of overreaction against it looks suspiciously like some unconscious denial--although the connection with the White supremacists isn't good(but doesn't follow from the logic of the claims).

It strains credulity and goes against instinct, in my opinion, to believe that the Ten Lost tribes are just eking
out their existences in some third world backwater of humanity in a failed society somewhere with third world know-how. It just seems counterintuitive to believe that people that are of a close genetic lineage to the Jews would not have successful societies. I doubt there is any basis for a believing or disbelieving with categorical certainty who can be identified with the ten lost tribes.

[DensaMensa]

}I don't get this hysterical reaction against "British-Israelitism"--or whatever designation one wants to signify it with. It doesn't effect key doctrinal points like Christiology or soteriology, so no one is "going to Hell" over some peripheral doctrinal point. This type of overreaction against it looks suspiciously like some unconscious denial

I sure agree with that. If anyone just mentions the topic of what happened to the Lost Tribes the zanies come swarming out of the woods like crazed termites. Their actions fall under the heading "methinks they protest too much", causing wonder of what they are trying to hide or divert away from.

It is very rare to see here a rational discussion of the pros and cons of the historical or biblical evidence surrounding the Lost Tribes of Israel without the subject being smeared by those who want to toss labels instead of evidence.