Would that it were. Jews benefit from white privilege, however the identity is not just a belief. Antisemitism frames jews as non-white and thus, jews face unique race-like prejudice other white people don’t. It’s nit like nazis look the other way when a jew converts to Christianity, they see “jewish” as a blood type. Similarly there is nothing real about race, until white supremacy enforces a hierarchy based in it.

(Edit: note, none if this is a defense of the ethnostate of israel)

Judaism is a religion but “Jewish” is an ethnicity that unfortunately happens to share a lot of the same terminology as the religion. A whole lot of Jews don’t practice Judaism.

There is only debate about that because of thousands of years of persecution very particular to Jewish history.

Being that it is one of the few religions that only survived (not because of temples and cities) because they wrote down their customs in a few books that also allow you to criticise and debate about what is written.

So the only reason why Jewish people survived in certain points was not by grabing on to religion but yes to the culture.

So the it’s like they where a country without borders or physical location, but the books provided the sense of unity normal countries have, like Spain or Finland, but nearly in written