Claiming Jews are “just a religion” is textbook antisemitism because it erases our identity as a people with a shared history, culture, language, and homeland.

Here’s the reality: Jews are an ethno-religious group. Not just a “faith,” and definitely not something you get to redefine for your convenience. We’re a nation with 3,000+ years of ancestry, a language (Hebrew), and a land (Israel). Denying that isn’t just ignorant—it’s antisemitic propaganda dressed up as intellectualism.

So stop pretending you know our identity better than we do. We’re a nation, and we’re not going anywhere.

(Included is a paper presenting two DNA studies demonstrating that Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews share a closer genetic relationship with each other than with the non-Jewish populations among whom they have lived.)