India's Lost Jews?

BBC news:

One of Israel's chief rabbis has recognised an Indian tribe as lost descendants of ancient Israelites.

The Chief Rabbi of the Sephardic Jews, Shlomo Amar, has informed members of the 6,000-strong Bnei Menashe community in India's north-east of his decision.

The ruling will ease the tribes' emigration to Israel from the states of Manipur and Mizoram.

Bnei Menashe members welcomed the announcement, saying they could now "go to the Promised Land".

There is still doubt over the "Jewishness" of the Bnei Menashe community:

Other Israeli groups have dismissed the claim as "historically untenable." DNA studies at the Central Forensic Institute in Calcutta suggest that while the masculine side of the tribes bears no links to Israel, the feminine side suggests a genetic profile with Middle Eastern people that may have arisen through inter-marriage.

Israeli social scientist Lev Grinberg told the BBC last year that right-wing Jewish groups wanted such conversions of distant people to boost the population in areas disputed by the Palestinians.

I wonder if they will be treated any better than the Ethiopians living in Israel?