What little information we are given in this story about the conference topic, strikes me as not in the least anti-Semitic, but your point is very well taken 1LittleBear. In this day and age, a biblical conference focused on early Hebrew history (my read of what lies beneath the little info given) can only be scholarly conference if it involves Jewish scholars as well as Christian. Then again, we are not told there are no Jewish presenters.  Difficult to make sense of this story.