Mitchell Plitnik writes: "Jewish “peoplehood” is both a fundamental concept to Jewish identity that long predates Zionism (as is pointed out in the piece) but also an amorphous sort of idea that, whatever it may be, is not the same as a modern “nation” as Zionism created.

“Peoplehood” in this reading can be multicultural, multi-ethnic, and not at all tied to territory." - but for some reason, it is only White European-decsent Jews who always talk about "Jewish People". If Jews are "people" how come Iranian Jews don't care about being "Jewish people" or Iraqi Jews have never thought of it until they started to be killed and propagandized by Zionists? how come Ethiopian Jews are being sterilized so they don't compromise "Jewish people" with too many black kids, or Yemeni Jews had to be educated into becoming "Jewish people" by being torn from their Arab parents and given to white families? How come that any black person who is converted to Judaism is banned from entry to Israel so she/he does not "blacken" the "Jewish people" community? Why Arab Jews have lived in the Middle East for centuries, never subject to European Jewish authorities and never bothered to segregate themselves, the way White Hasidic "Jewish people" do today in Europe and United States? How come when "Jewish people" talk about antisemitism, it is always these White European Jews again, and Iranian, Arab or African Jews never even mention it? Is it that white European Jews are in fact NOT SURE that they are "Jews" at all and must constantly prove it to themselves by declaring themselves "Jewish People"?