The Jews are people of the book in the same context as Christians and Muslims.
Like Middle Eastern Arabs, they are Semites , the forefront of advanced civilization in antiquity .
By time lines, the Jews accept the Old Testament , Christians the New Testament and Muslims the Koran.

Jews were mostly driven out of Palestine by Christian Crusaders  2000 years ago, and their collective became the Jewish diaspora in Europe .
Some remained peacefully with their Semitic brothers in the Middle East u til, driven by the pogroms and the Holocaust in Europe by Hitler, they moved back to Palestine under the British protectorate during and after WW2.

The Jews called it restitution of their homelands since Moses .
The remaining Jews in the Middle East then were persecuted and driven out of Middle Eastern countries subsequent to the formation of Israel.

It's regrettable that religion has caused so much strife in the world .
Religion should be abolished for a common universal moral code..