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The Jewish story is under assault
From the Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0422-halevi-passover-unesco-20160422-story.html
"Who are the Jews? A religion? A people? The question has taken on a special urgency in our time. At the heart of the anti-Zionist assault is the notion that the Jews aren't a people but only a faith. That premise is normative throughout the Arab world, and especially in the Palestinian statehood movement, all of whose factions deny the existence of a distinct Jewish people with a right to national sovereignty.
The Jewish calendar tells a different story. On Passover, we celebrate the birth of the Jewish people through our escape from Egypt; it's the beginning of a coherent historical narrative. On Shavuot, two months later, we celebrate the giving of the Torah at Sinai, imprinting the Jewish people with a distinct path to God. The Jews, then, are a people with a specific faith. In that order."
Halevi gets to the heart of it.
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That they are not a people, nation, tribe.
It doesn't matter what you think because Jews have seen themselves as a nation/people/tribe, etc.. for thousands of years no matter where we have lived throughout the world. Whether we're religious or atheist.
As to definition of a nation:
Nation (from Latin: natio, "people, tribe, kin, genus, class, flock"
is a social concept with no uncontroversial definition,[1] but that is most commonly used to designate larger groups or collectives of people with common characteristics attributed to them—including language, traditions, customs (mores), habits (habitus), and ethnicity. A nation, by comparison, is more impersonal, abstract, and overtly political than an ethnic group. It is a cultural-political community that has become conscious of its autonomy, unity, and particular interests.[2]
is a social concept with no uncontroversial definition,[1] but that is most commonly used to designate larger groups or collectives of people with common characteristics attributed to them—including language, traditions, customs (mores), habits (habitus), and ethnicity. A nation, by comparison, is more impersonal, abstract, and overtly political than an ethnic group. It is a cultural-political community that has become conscious of its autonomy, unity, and particular interests.[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation
I know what you're doing denying that Jews are a nation.
You''re trying to delegitimize any claim they have to their historic homeland.