The question of whether Jews are a nation or a religion has been definitively and officially settled, at least for the people of the United States:
President Trump will sign an executive order defining Judaism as a nationality, not just a religion, thus bolstering the Education Department’s efforts to stamp out “Boycott Israel” movements on college campuses.
RamZPaul reaches the obvious conclusion:
I guess this means that the United States government’s position is that Jews are not Russians, Germans, Swedes or Americans, but they are a separate nation and a separate people.
Which, of course, has always been the case, despite the various self-serving attempts by immigrants to redefine Americans as some sort of walking, talking manifestations of an ideological Platonic ideation. And, of course, it tends to raise the question of where in the Constitution the executive branch is empowered to create an “Education Department”, much less play economic and speech police for the institutions of higher education across the country.
Anyhow, it is nice to have this age-old debate resolved once and for all.